Archive For The “Geek” Category

404, the story of a page not found

By | October 1, 2012

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In this short talk, Renny Gleeson presents a different way to use the classic HTML 404 Error Page. He proposed to have friendlier messages in the web and also use them to capture users/clients interest. It is something to consider in the next web projects, isn’t it?. Finally, he left this quote that could be useful [...]

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The optimism bias

By | July 31, 2012

Tali Sharot

I’ve always found interesting this topic because I believe that optimism is vital for problem solving, specially for software, but I’m also aware that been too optimistic can be a problem. That’s why, I found really interesting this video where Tali Sharot shares a new research about the optimism bias. I wrote in my Moleskine: [...]

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10 Years of Eclipse

By | November 4, 2011

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Eclipse Community is celebrating its 10 years releasing Eclipse Timeline. It’s a ten years line where you can register: yourself, when you started to use Eclipse and what are your favorite projects. It’s a great idea and I think, it will be interesting to see the final statistics! So, if you use Eclipse, please join [...]

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10 Años de Eclipse

By | November 4, 2011

ModlostTimeline

La Comunidad de Eclipse está celebrando 10 años liberando Eclipse Timeline, que es una linea de tiempo donde puedes registrar: cuando comenzaste a usar Eclipse y cuales son tus proyectos favoritos de Eclipse. Es una excelente idea y creo, será interesante ver las estadísticas finales. Entonces, si usas Eclipse, por favor: ¡únete al Eclipse Timeline! Happy [...]

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Video: ¿Quieres ser un profesional sobresaliente? Sumergete en el mundo del software libre!

By | October 26, 2011

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Desde principios de este año tuve la gran oportunidad de compartir con varias comunidades de software libre esta conferencia. En mi opinión es una de las conferencias más motivadoras que he dado y por eso me animo a publicar el video para que más personas puedan verlo. Datos: El post original de esta conferencia esta [...]

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Gravatar Hovercards enabled at modlost.net

By | September 1, 2011

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I’ve just enabled another Jetpack feature: “Gravatar Hovercards” for comments. It took me a little bit because there was a hidden conflict between theme Jenny and Jetpack but hopefully it’s solved. Happy hacking!

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Adding sharing links at modlost.net

By | August 30, 2011

Jetpack

Getting up early is not one of my favorites activities but somedays you just get up at 3:00 am and can’t sleep, I could assume that an internal bug in my sleeping program threw an exception! What ever, it’s good to have a list of things to do when it happens (GTD). The task: “Adding [...]

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Evernote & Skitch

By | August 19, 2011

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Early today when I was just looking at Google Reading, this new took my attention: “Evernote acquires Skitch!“. Immediately, I started to think about how they could be integrated or – even better – how useful will be if Skitch is embedded in Evernote. Both applications are really important in my daily activities so I [...]

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