Obama usó Google para recibir preguntas / Obama used Google to recieve questions

Posted by Arturo Tena on Feb 5, 2010 in Web
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El equipo de transición de Barack Obama uso una aplicación de Google para responder las preguntas con mayor número de votos. / Barack Obama’s transition team used an application from Google to answer the questions with the most votes.

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NetBeans JEE vs JDeveloper JEE

Posted by Arturo Tena on Feb 4, 2010 in Programación
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[lang_es]Dice Oracle:[/lang_es][lang_en]Oracle says:[/lang_en]
Will NetBeans replace JDeveloper as Oracle’s Strategic IDE?
No, although NetBeans is a very capable and well featured development environment there are no plans for it to replace Oracle JDeveloper. Oracle JDeveloper will continue to be an end-to-end enterprise development environment including Java, Java EE, XML, enterprise portal development, SOA development and orchestration and [...]

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Programación 1: El destino inmutable

Posted by Arturo Tena on Jan 21, 2010 in Programación
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Recientemente he estado buscando un lenguaje diferente para programar en la máquina virtual de Java (JVM). Existen muchos, y algunos que llaman la atención son los lenguajes funcionales (tales como Scala y Clojure) y los lenguajes cercanos al scripting (Jython y Groovy). Deseo encontrar un lenguaje en el que me permita escribir menos código que [...]

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HTML: Elegir el botón enviar por omisión / HTML: Set the Default Submit Button

Posted by Arturo Tena on Jan 14, 2010 in Programación
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En HTML, el botón de enviar por omisión es el primero: se activa cuando oprimes la tecla <Enter>. Pero puedes usar algunos trucos para elegir otro. Por supuesto, puedes usar Javascript, pero también puedes usar CSS.
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On HTML, the default submit button on a form is the first one -it is activated when <Enter> key is [...]

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Artefactos antirrobo / Anti-theft gadgets

Posted by Arturo Tena on Dec 30, 2009 in Tecnología
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Dos ingeniosos artefactos anti-robo llamaron mi atención. Que los disfruten:
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Two ingenious anti-theft devices caught my attention. Enjoy:
Bolsas de comida antirrobo / Anti-theft Lunch bag
      
thinkofthe.com

IronKey: la memoria Flash más segura del mundo / IronKey: The World’s Most Secure Flash Drive

ironkey.com

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The fast Google Chrome: DNS pre-resolution

Posted by Arturo Tena on Dec 5, 2009 in Tecnología
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The Googlers have done an incredible work to make Google Chrome a fast browser. The following video shows how deep they have dug: DNS pre-resolution and initial TCP dropped packages.
This makes me think how much effort I do to develop fast programs.

UML Diagram Documentation For Microsoft Excel BIFF8 Records

Posted by Arturo Tena on Dec 4, 2009 in Programación
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I have spent some time since I was 20 years reading Microsoft Excel binary files. Including Biff8 records. I have no found a diagram of the relation between them, not even in the book “Microsoft Excel 97 Developer’s Kit“, Microsoft Press, 1997.
Recently, I had to go back to read some of them, using Apache POI [...]

Cómo se desarrollan verdaderamente los sistemas

Posted by Arturo Tena on Oct 14, 2009 in Programación, Tecnología
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Cómo se desarrollan verdaderamente los sistemas.

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Happy vs Angry on the Web (or how much happiness is on the Web)

Posted by Arturo Tena on Oct 7, 2009 in Tecnología, Web
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Today, I searched for a photograph on Flickr using the word “angry” (the reason is beyond this blog). Flickr reported 174,465 results. Being a inquisitive creature, I used the word “happy“. Flickr reported 3,735,966 results. Approximately 21.4 more times. Wow. I thought I would find approximately the same number of results. Quickly, I did the [...]

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Microsoft Office 2007 legal muy barato, casi gratis ($128.00 pesos mexicanos) / Legal Microsoft Office 2007 cheap, almost free, for aprox. $9.75 USD

Posted by Arturo Tena on Aug 2, 2009 in Computadoras, Tecnología
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Actualización / Update (2009-08-04): Los precios normales están de regreso / The regular prices are back:

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