MusicLib: Programar una aplicación web

Decidí emprender la programación de una aplicación web que maneje una librería de música, un proyecto relativamente simple, para enseñarme varias cosas:

PostGreSQL
PostGreSQL con PHP
Subversion para control de versiones
Trac para bug tracking
Creación de aplicaciones con CakePHP y otros frameworks
Aplicación de jQuery a esos frameworks, especialmente desarrollando métodos Ajax
Creación de plugins para CakePHP y otros frameworks

Es decir, [...]

Chile

We’re thinking of moving to Santiago de Chile shortly. We paid a short visit to the city to check what was all about, how Ale would be working, the prices, the sights and the movement of the town. Check the full post for the pictures we took More of this at Santiago de Chile

Padre Nuestro

Baba yetu, yetu uliye
Mbinguni yetu, yetu, amina!
Baba yetu, yetu, uliye
Jina lako litukuzwe. [...]

Getting started with Audacity

Getting started with Audacity 1.3

A few months ago I was approached by the good folks at Packt Publishing to do a technical review of their brand new book “Getting Started with Audacity 1.3“.

Before I start, please do note that, for SEO’s and good taste’s sake, I avoided any lame puns with the post’s title such [...]

PHP tutorials: array_map and array_filter

This can be a series of tutorials. I hope it will be. The credit for the initiative goes to the blog post “The Beginner Pattern“.

Since PHP 4.0.6, PHP has included two powerful functions to process arrays: array_map and array_filter. These can be a bit hard to wrap your head around at first, for they flip the [...]

A quick and useful tutorial to using PDO

PDO (PHP Data Objects) is a PHP extension that grants you generic access to databases in an object-oriented fashion. Perusing stackoverflow I found an excellent tutorial on the subject written by Paul DuBois at kitebird.com.

Using PDO, you’ll stop embedding calls to mysql_ functions across your code, your scripts will improve, your breath will smell mintier, swallows [...]

Something from the Scary Devil Monastery

The basic rules of systems administration – agnostic of platform, era,
personal preference, management diktat, whatever – are three, eternal,
and easy to articulate… [...]

Traffic in Buenos Aires

Today, I got off work at 18:20. Subway line B was

full of people in the runway
pressed like sardines inside the trains themselves
running with delays

After some half an hour of letting trains pass, I could bear no more and got out, tried to take a bus. The 24 line was there to get me home, but it [...]

Civ 4

Thou shall not start late games of Civilization IV, for they will drag on into the night and cause your wife to be mightily angry [...]

My mind, she’s blown

I just found a meta-quine. More of this at My mind, she’s blown