March 2011
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rawclone: quickly set up your gems development...
I start on a project which is somehow working (or even in production) and setting up gems without bundler is a pain in the ass every single time (I’ve never seen a rake gems:install run without breaking along the process several times…). Most of the time you end up running a combination of rake gems:install and manual gem installation, dealing with dependencies along the way.
So, if...
September 2010
1 post
Keep calm and carry on
Spain Debt Crisis ‘Exaggerated’: Prime Minister
Dónde nuestro presidente dice, entre otras cosas, que el precio de la vivienda ha tocado fondo.
El presidente de la CEOE ha hecho un llamamiento a todos los empresarios para que ninguna empresa cierre el día de la huelga general
Dónde Díaz Ferran dice, entre otras cosas, que la gran mayoría de los ciudadanos quieren trabajar.
...
July 2010
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tele.texto: El Síndrome de Hello Kitty →
Hace unos meses murió José Saramago. En todos los obituarios que leí en Internet, en ninguno encontré la gran razón por la que creo que debería ser recordado: su férreo pesimismo. Saramago siempre dejaba caer la idea de que todos los seres humanos somos, fundamentalmente, mezquinos, egoístas y…
April 2010
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¿A qué se parece la guerra?
Parece que estamos en un centro comercial pero, al entrar por una puerta, el interior se asemeja más al de una especie de torreón con escaleras que ascienden alrededor de un enorme hueco por dónde caen plantas colgantes.
Huimos de una muchedumbre que la aclamaba por ser algún tipo de aristócrata.
Una vez dentro observamos por una de las ventanas cómo la gente grita para que salga. Cantan y...
December 2009
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"Yo jugué al Doom"... pues va a ser que no
Me jode sobremanera que cada vez que hablo de algo que amo tanto como los videojuegos sea envenenado. Hoy escribo esto en un torpe y fútil intento por desmitificar el absurdo que supone que a un montón de gente se le llene la boca de hablar del producto más famoso de Id Software sin haberlo catado en su puta vida.
Mirad niños, lo mismo que ocurre con el agujero negro de los 80 que parece haberse...
August 2009
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The briefest history of Spanish game development
I’ve just read that Imagine Fashion Designer it’s the best selling game that has been developed in Spain. And I’m more than happy to know it.
I’m happy because I’m so tired off the same old pattern when you talk about Spanish game development: La Abadia del Crimen - Spanish software’s golden era - Commandos
Fuck that shit!
Most of the people who talk about La...
June 2009
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May 2009
2 posts
Réquiem por Vulcano
teletexto:
El Uruguay de mis padres era un país rico e interesante. Vivían del dinero que habían hecho vendiendo corned beef al resto del mundo durante las dos Guerras Mundiales y la Guerra de Corea. Hijos, nietos y bisnietos de inmigrantes, tenían claro que si querían ser alguien en la vida, debían estudiar. Y así nació lo que en Uruguay conocemos como la filosofía de “Mi hijo el doctor”: todos...
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It's like chess, but cool
Lately I’ve being watching a lot of Street Fighter videos and annoying a lot of people telling how awesome they are.
First things first, I was a more than bad Street Fighter II player, I’ve never played any of the Street Fighter Alpha (I was playing Tekken 2) and got I little encounter during some summer holidays with Street Fighter III. I’ve recently come back to the sweet...
April 2009
3 posts
Carril bici NO →
demimismo:
No necesitamos “redes ciclistas”, sino calles seguras y conductores cívicos. No necesitamos carriles-bici, sino una ciudad permeable a la bicicleta.
“Telefónica, meanwhile, said under its terms and conditions customers can use...”
– T-Mobile Threatens Skype Use - WSJ.com
March 2009
6 posts
“Para medir una manifestación, contando con que se llega en el momento preciso,...”
– Manifestómetro
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Put your git aliases in the right place
That means in your .gitconfig file, not in your .bashrc, .profile, …
Why?
Because you get real auto-completion (no only commands but arguments like branch names, remotes, etc) that you will lose otherwise. Also, git help applied to an alias will tell you which command is aliased to.
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Spain and the copyrighted material protection (I):...
Some background information will be helpful to understand this blog entry. You can find some very scattered info here and there. To sum up, the current Spanish government seems to be planning to adopt some sort of legal measures to protect copyrighted material from been freely distributed on the internet.
From the very vague pieces of information the public opinion it’s been given, it seems...
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“What’s most interesting to me is seeing all these people coming into the...”
– Ed Stern, senior games designer at Splash Damage
February 2009
4 posts
Maxis opens the Spore API - Offworld →
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Mindfuck
Two nights ago I was watching Videodrome and wondering how little I know about cinema, because this film was reminding me too much to The Matrix.
I loved The Matrix, so I felt a little disappointment when, few year after watching it, I saw the 1998 film DarkCity, not because DarkCity was a bad film (in fact I can say the opposite) but for the apparent rip-off The Matrix seems to do with this...
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“More and more people on the Web don’t have to care what pointy-haired...”
– Giles Bowkett: There’s Going To Be Many More Rails(es)
January 2009
3 posts
Easy support flash, mp3, java, etc on KUbuntu
Just install kubuntu-restricted-extras from the multiverse repository.
Copy & paste from the package description:
This package depends on some commonly used packages in the Kubuntu multiverse repository.
Installing this package will pull in support for MP3 playback and decoding, Java runtime environment, Flash plugin, DVD playback, and LAME (to create compressed audio files).
It will save you...
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Just, because you ask for it.
My 2008 best things:
Damn, 2008 was a blast for me. So many changes, so many new things.. I freakin’ love this year.
End my college education doing something I loved. I’m not really pleased with the results but I enjoyed doing it.
Got a job… what a job I’ve got.
I’ve met tons of absolutely smart-brilliant-nice people. It amazes me...
Sharing your dotfiles between machines
I think it is pretty common to share dotfiles[1] using some sort of version control system and an “always accessible” repository. There’s a lot of people saving and sharing their dotfiles on GitHub, for example.
I don’t like very much the idea of sharing some pieces of my personal configuration for security reasons (or paranoia, depending on who you ask about it). So, my...
September 2008
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“I personally just encourage people to switch to KDE. This “users are...”
– Linus Torvalds ( 12 Dec 2005 )
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Book review: The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas
I demand my 4 hours back.
“The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas” is an insult to every mature reader that has put his eyes on it: it’s bad written, historically inaccurate, predictable,… I was thinking on a more elaborate review but this shitty book has already take enough of my time.
If somebody ever recommends you this book, buy it, then force your “literate...
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Named routes on rake tasks
To be able to use named routes ( modelName_path, edit_modelName_path, etc ) on a rake task, you have to include ActionController::UrlWriter.
August 2008
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Enhancing the IT infraestructure for dummies
I’m real fan of development tools, IT infrastructures and all those nerd things that are made to make your life easier when making software. Nowadays we live in a wonderland-gummy-chocolate-world where, most of the time, you could find really neat applications for free, thanks to the open source community. Seems like the knowledge and the skills are becoming more precious than technology....
July 2008
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El (cada vez menos) infierno de las migraciones
Las migraciones en Rails son un concepto muy insteresante en teoría. Y digo en teoría, porque en la práctica representan bastantes quebraderos de cabeza a la hora de trabajar en equipo.
Sin embargo, parece que cada vez van apareciendo pequeñas mejoras (que sin ser revsiones profundas del concepto) convierten este recurso en algo más usable.
Muy interesante me parece una de las últimas cosas que...
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Ruby's short circuit evaluation
Pues eso, Ruby usa short circuit evaluation (que no recuerdo como se dice en castellano…) para los operadores lógicos. Peeeeeeero si hacemos esto:
>> nil & puts("foo") foo => false
La razón es que “&” es un método y “puts(“foo”)” un argumento del mismo.
June 2008
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No es el exceso de contenido
Através de un compañero de trabajo me llega lo siguiente:
one of the diseases of this age is the multiplicity of books; they doth so overcharge the world that it is not able to digest the abundance of idle matter that is every day hatched and brought forth into the world
Barnaby Rich (1580-1617), writing in 1613. (Vía Pasta&Vinegar)
Y me recuerda que que llevo un par de días quejándome en...
Walkaways ha muerto. Larga vida a Walkaways
Walkaways estaba (está) alojado en un servidor al que tenía acceso físico (que es una forma fina de contar que usaba un ordenador viejo para alojar mi blog).
Durante un tiempo la cosa fue bastante divertida por el componente didáctico que suponía poder cacharrear lo que quisiera. El problema es que, cómo ha demostrado la experiencia, mi servidor casero y “bloguear” se han convertido...