Breaking the 1000ms Time to Glass Mobile Barrier

10 Apr
April 10, 2013

An excelent talk by Google’s Ilya Grigorik.
Here are the slides from the talk

Focus On Emotions’ Staff Day 2012 #2

13 Dec
December 13, 2012

Today, my company (Focus On Emotions) is having the second Staff Day of 2012. We have one at the start of summer and another at the start of winter. On the Staff Day, we usually don’t work, and we get together in meeting room to be updated on the company status and course.

This time I’m not at the company’s headquarters in Barcelona but that’s not a problem when you have a laptop and access to the Internet :)

What is “Niantic Project”?

10 Dec
December 10, 2012

Ok, I have to tell you about this. I was looking for information about “Ingress” which is some kind of game a few people are playing but nobody seems to know how to get access to. I was browsing around and found out about something called “Niantic Project”. Apparently there’s something big going on and only a handful of people and aware of it, the ones playing Ingress.

I found a few cool pictures while googling around, nothing too weird,. I wanted to save some for later, but I accidentally saved this one as a .html file and that’s when things got weird.

Try and do it yourself. Save this image to your local disk, and rename it to from .jpg to .html. When you open it in your browser, it will look almost the same, but you’ll notice that your browser’s background is now black, and the image has a weird green border around it, something it didn’t have before. If you move your mouse over the image, you’re going to find a mysterious text that leads to a strange website. I don’t know who exactly created that webpage, but there’s a ton of info on there.

Why whould somedy hide something inside an image?
What are they hiding from us?
What is “Niantic Project”?

GOTO Aarhus 2012 videos are here!

06 Dec
December 6, 2012

The playlist rom the recent GOTO Aarhus 2012 has been published on YouTube.

Jez Humble’s “Implementing Continuous Delivery” where he talks about the organisational problems and mistakes and misconceptions that come up when trying to implement CD has been one of my favourites.

Link: GOTO Aarhus 2012 (YouTube playlist: 6 videos, 4:44h)

Iberian peninsula at night

29 Nov
November 29, 2012

Source: NASA picture from December 4, 2011

Black Deck Tigers

26 Nov
November 26, 2012

18 Videos from HTML5DevConf on YouTube

21 Nov
November 21, 2012

13+ hours of talks! Try to no go over all of it on a day :P

Couldn’t get to HTML5DevConf October 2012 in San Francisco last month? Enjoy it from your armchair with these 18 recordings from speakers like Ben Vinegar and Gilad Bracha. Lots of enjoy over Thanksgiving.

Link: 18 Videos from HTML5DevConf on YouTube
Via: HTML5 Weekly

CSS Hat: Photoshop layer styles to CSS3 with a click

18 Nov
November 18, 2012

I’m absolutely in love with this plugin :)

Link: CSS Hat

Why programmers work at night: the book

17 Nov
November 17, 2012

Programmer Swizec Teller and author of the (now) famous blog post “Why programmers work at night” has started a project on Leanpub to publish a book about programmers.

Quoting from the author:

[...] In December 2011 I wrote down a bunch of assumptions about Why programmers work at night (link) in a blogpost. I wrote it because I got tired of being called a lazy slob for waking up at 11am every day.

After 4000 tweets, 10000 likes and many emails I didn’t feel alone anymore.

The most surprising feedback were emails along the lines of “Oh man! I finally understand my husband, thanks so much for writing this!”. And it is because of those that I have finally decided to write a short ebook.

In the book I’m going to:

  • Show fellow night-time programmers (and others!) that they are not alone
  • Give practical tips on living with your friendly neighborhood programmer
  • Support my original hypotheses by interviewing cool programmers
  • Explore the modern trend of super early wakeruppers who approach the night time from the other end

So if you’re a programmer that feels missunderstood on your late nights of happy coding, maybe this book will be an ideal gift for your roomies, girlfriend, boyfriend, parents or even for your boss.

Link: Why programmers work at night: the book

NFC Bootcamp Barcelona 2012

16 Nov
November 16, 2012
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