Posts Tagged ‘development’

First printer in a computing grid?

Apr 22, 2008 Uncategorized

Tweet My friend Diego Mariño has announced in his blog that they have succesfully connected a printer to a computing grid. Think in Grid is a startup from Barcelona with an innovative Grid computing framework. They claim to be able to integrate all kind of devices in a computing grid, just like this printer:Coming from [...]

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The grails diaries #5: Do you need a software architect?

Feb 20, 2008 Uncategorized

Tweet Previous: Grails, is it really worth it? I think there is a general misunderstanding of what kind of value can give Grails to a development shop. It seems that there are people out there that believe Grails, RoR and other breeds mean the end of Software Architectures in the web layer. The reasoning is: [...]

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Using the Google Chart API from the server side

Dec 9, 2007 Uncategorized

Tweet The new Google Chart API says You can include a Chart API image in a webpage by embedding a URL within an tag. When the webpage is displayed in a browser the Chart API renders the image within the page. There are some references about how to encode the information in the URLs in [...]

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The ball and chain of iPhone was not Java: it’s Google Android

Nov 12, 2007 Uncategorized

Tweet Sometimes you only need to wait to understand why things happen. When Steve Jobs said ‘Java is not worth building in. Nobody uses Java anymore. It’s this big heavyweight ball and chain’, we were surprised and disappointed because like me a lot of people think that there is still room for Java in the [...]

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Social bugfixing tool: Can corank.com work?

Nov 5, 2007 Uncategorized

Tweet When you start with a third party open source library or project, first thing you do is to check the its activity. If the project is dead or it’s a zombie (somebody still there just to make questions in the forums) then it’s better to start looking for a new one.If the project is [...]

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