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MusicLib: Programar una aplicación web

adriano — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 18:48:15 +0000

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, [...]

Santiago de Chile

adriano — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 21:44:39 +0000

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

Some pictures of Santiago

La Catedral de Santiago frente [...]

Padre Nuestro

adriano — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 17:24:20 +0000

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

Getting started with Audacity

adriano — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:37:26 +0000

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

adriano — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:41:28 +0000

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 tutorial to better database access with PHP

adriano — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:29:08 +0000

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

adriano — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:58:21 +0000

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

adriano — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:28:28 +0000

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

adriano — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:28:27 +0000

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

adriano — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:32:00 +0000

I just found a meta-quine.

q a b c=putStrLn $ b ++ [toEnum 10,'q','('] ++ show b ++ [','] ++ show c ++ [','] ++ show a ++ [')'] main=q "q a b c=putStrLn $ b ++ [toEnum 10,'q','('] ++ show b ++ [','] ++ show c ++ [','] ++ show a ++ [')']" "def q(a,b,c):print b+chr(10)+'q('+repr(b)+','+repr(c)+','+repr(a)+')'" "def [...]