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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...

I searched the internet for a gedit plugin that would allow me to press a key and jump (navigate) to the file where a ruby class is defined. I couldn’t find one so I wrote one (I know about Geany but I couldn’t find that functionality there either...

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 order to prevent the dreadful copy-paste habits in unit tests (remember, tests are also code, so all the good practices you use when writing code should also apply to tests) a common pattern to test similar behaviour when slightly changing the input...

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

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...

In the last post I blogged about using gettext to internationalize strings in C#. However, using the Messages.T("Hello world") syntax in ASP.NET can be a little cumbersome. Luckily, ASP.NET controls can work as a solution for this issue. Adding a...

We are in the process of dealing with the internationalization and localization of one of our open source web applications, which is fully developed using C# and ASP.NET MVC. Although ASP.NET already provides easy support for i18n via the usage of...

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...

On September 26th, Martin Verzilli and I will be making a presentation at Microsoft CodeCamp event on Silverlight DeepZoom technology. The presentation will focus on exploiting a much underused feature of the deep zoom control, which is the ability...