Ruby on Rails hype: the party is over
Sep 24, 2007 Uncategorized
Tweet Finally it seems that Ruby on Rails is starting to show its real face. Two years of RoR development put into the trash. Wow! Being seven times more productive than Java that means fourteen years of development! Seriously, it’s not common to hear of failures of a new and cool software stuff -you can [...]
Spain vs USA comparing two Job Boards
Sep 19, 2007 Uncategorized
Tweet A few days ago I made a search in Infojobs.es (the most popular Job Board in Spain) for open positions for Ruby On Rails developers. The result was… one! I was very surprised. Only one? With all the hype around RoR? Only one job offer?It’s obvious that USA is more developed regarding technology than [...]
Rise and fall of DBAs: The tyranny of the ORM
Sep 14, 2007 Uncategorized
Tweet There was a time when DBAs dictate how developers should use Their databases. It was early and mid-nineties and Their Word was The Truth. Those poor guys building client-server applications had to bow down before Him/Her and implement the Business Logic inside The Database Manager. Database hardware was expensive, but His/Her Highness could size [...]
Tags: architecture, databases, enterprise, fun, java
Why developers hate bug-fixing
Sep 10, 2007 Uncategorized
Tweet Probably the only common thing among all developers I have worked with is the hate to bug-fixing. No matter if bugs belong to them or not. As a developer and as a manager I have quite contradictory feelings. As a developer there was nothing more irritating than the hateful Bugzilla emails. When I was [...]
Tags: agile, architecture, enterprise, management, qa
Spain will need 30000 Telecommunications Engineers in next 5 years
Sep 6, 2007 Uncategorized
Tweet The shortage of Telecommunications Engineers and Computer Engineers is becoming a serious problem for the Spanish economy. Today we can read in the news we will need to import 30000 foreign graduates for our market in the next five years. The option is obvious: bring people from India and China.I don’t know if these [...]
Tags: business, enterprise
Data normalization is not for sissies, it’s just common sense
Sep 5, 2007 Uncategorized
Tweet And I must be the biggest sissy of all. There is a lot of buzz about designing your databases thinking in data normalized or denormalized. Now that everybody is building the next Google or YouTube the database design has to support trillions of transactions per second and millions of terabytes, of course running on [...]
Tags: architecture, databases, designs
Palm Foleo cancelled just before shipping
Sep 4, 2007 Uncategorized
Tweet I was astonished when I read that Palm cancels Foleo just before starting to ship it. The reason sounds like an excuse: ‘…it has become clear that the right path for Palm is to offer a single, consistent user experience around this new platform[WindRiver] design and a single focus for our platform development efforts.‘There [...]
Google Phone OS Java based?
Sep 4, 2007 Uncategorized
Tweet I have just read this post in Engadget about rumours of the Google Phone. I will highlight this: ‘…the phone will run on a Linux variant (which is nothing new), and will be Java Virtual Machine-capable. Additionally, the OS of the phone will be Java-based (as well as the all phone apps itself), and [...]
Tags: .net, embedded, google, gphone, iphone, java, linux, microsoft
- Now you have to find the DIV tag that contains the id to the 'sidebar'. Normally it's after all the comments stuff. Insert BEFORE this DIV tag the following javascript code:
And that's all folks. Test it before publishing. I have tested it in FireFox and Internet Explorer in Windows. If you can test it in Safari or Opera, please send me some feedback.
Comments, improvements and problems will be welcomed!
Update 1: A colleague sent me a CSS hack. You can find it here.
Update 2: To restrict the effect of the script to the posts avoiding the sidebars and other effects, this version modified of the script only affects the post bodies.
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Tweet One of the most annoying things of a Blogger.com blog was how difficult was to add AdSense ads in your blog. Currently this is not an issue anymore because you can add automatically AdSense ads in your page thanks to the Blogger dashboard. But if you read blogs you will realize that some blogs [...]
