Last time I travelled by train I was dumb enough to leave my portable music player behind. I tried calling the Lost + Found office, where much more expensive and fancy items had been collected, to no avail. So the search for a new player began. My basic requirement was that it must play Ogg [...]
Archives for Computers
From pseudo-code to code
This post is probably not about what you’re thinking. It’s actually about automated testing. Different stuff I’ve been reading or otherwise been exposed to in the last weeks has made me reach a sort of funny comparison: code is (or can be) like science. You come up with some “theory” (your code) that explains something [...]
Faster than the fastest
These are interesting times in the browser world: not only there are more browsers than ever, but now even Internet Explorer is starting to become competitive again, so in a year or two it might not even be safe to assume that every other browser is better. Go figure. So anyway, recently Opera released 10.60, [...]
Book review: “97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know”
In the last batch of books I ordered from The Book Depository I had “97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know“. It was a thin book and one of the first to arrive, so I figured it was a good one to start. The book is a collection of 2-page articles about project management. It [...]
Video editing woes
Google Test Automation Conference. In India. Sounds great, doesn’t it? That’s what I thought too, so I applied. For that, though, I had to shoot not only one, but two videos: one explaining the full-length talk I wanted to present, and a video of a lightning talk. As both of them were related to talks, [...]
My first smartphone
I’m not really a “fancy phone” guy. Actually, some years ago I used to hate mobile phones. Luckily, things have changed, and to make a long story short, I bought a (second hand) HTC Hero after thinking of buying an Android phone for months. My first impression is fairly good: even though it’s the first [...]
Arepa – Apt REPository Assistant
For some time now I had been frustrated by the tools to manage APT repositories. The only ones I knew of either covered too little (only adding/removing packages from a repository and such, like reprepro) or were way too complex (like the official tools used by Debian itself). Maybe/probably I’m a moron and I just [...]
Feeling the pressure produces better code?
The other day I was in a conversation with some developer that was complaining about some feature. He claimed that it was too complex and that it had led to tons of bugs. In the middle of the conversation, the developer said that the feature had been so buggy that he ended up writing a [...]
Review: Dingoo (A320)
When I mentioned that I wanted an “open” portable gaming console that played PSP games, Enrique mentioned the Dingoo. Not that it actually plays PSP games, but it’s indeed an “open” console, cheap and with a number of “extras”. So I wondered if playing PSP games was so important for me. Not that it wouldn’t [...]
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