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It’s been a while since the last time I wrote something here. I realize I’ve promised several posts which never got written, such as some experiments with bizarre random number generators, the architecture of the silverlight DynamicDeepZoom app we...

I just found out the difference between += and << when used for a string. irb(main):001:0> str=chan => "chan" irb(main):002:0> str.object_id => 69952758899780 irb(main):003:0> str +=ged => "changed" irb(main):004:0> str.object_id => 69952758848800...

Ruby-Jump plugin for gedit

Information is a vital form of aid in itself […] Disaster-affected people need information as much as water, food, medicine or shelter. Information can save lives, livelihoods and resources. — World Disasters Report 2005 (cross-posted at InSTEDD

In a previous post I mentioned a few ways of dealing with i18n of strings in ASP.NET pages with gettext. Now it’s time for javascript code. Although javascript code in ASP.NET pages can be internationalized using the <%= %gt; syntax, pure js files...

From the very start of my thesis, the key idea was to find a lambda calculus with explicit substitutions, indexes, and all the good properties (I refer the reader to all previous posts). In particular, having in mind a recent work from Delia Kesner

Parameterized Tests

Gettext i18n strings in ASP.NET controls

Using GNU Gettext for i18n in C# and ASP.NET

For those of you who attended to the talk (thanks a lot for attending, by the way), you may find in Codeplex project DynamicDeepZoom all the source code we used for the example we presented, as well as the presentation (in Spanish). And for those of...