Mobialia en Canal TEA

Esta semana invitáronme a participar nun programa da televisión local de Ponteareas (Canal TEA). Falamos un pouco dos fundamentos de Android, das aplicacións de Mobialia, tablets, MiFis etc. Foi unha experiencia moi interesante e a primeira vez que vou a unha canle de Televisión.

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My London travel tips

This easter we were on London, it was a great experience and I want to share with you some travel tips:

AIRPORT

I arrived to Stansted Airport. Try to get a fligth to Heatrow or Gatwick. Stansted is 1 hour away by bus from London city center.

There are many bus companies from . . . → Read More: My London travel tips

Using two location providers on Android

Android has two kinds of accuracy on location:

Fine: provided by the GPS, needs some time to be obtained Coarse: location determined with the cell of the mobile network

This location methods can be enabled or disabled by the user on the preferences or with some widgets.

Initially on our apps we used . . . → Read More: Using two location providers on Android

Find Android apps with AppBrain

One of the first things that you can notice after buying an Android phone is the great amount of mobile applications (apps) that you can download from the Android Market, but searching for a specific app can be very frustrating, and a time-consuming task.

This is due to one of the biggest problems of . . . → Read More: Find Android apps with AppBrain

Tales of a chess engine developer

Chess engine development is one of the most brain-crushing activities I’ve been involved on the last years. Last nigths I was working again on my Carballo Chess Engine with some advances.

First of all I decided to leave Negamax and go with Principal Variation Search (PVS). Also decided to implement separate methods for root . . . → Read More: Tales of a chess engine developer

Jim Ablett’s Carballo packaging

Jim Ablett has published a packaged executable for my Carballo chess engine. He also made a pretty logo for it, shown here. Check his page to download executables for Carballo and a lot of other chess engines: Jim Ablett’s Winboard Chess Page. Thanks Jim for your great . . . → Read More: Jim Ablett’s Carballo packaging

Presentación sobre Android na SobrosoParty 2010

Mañá vou facer unha presentación de Android e organizar un pequeno workshop na SobrosoParty (http://www.sobrosoparty.es). Tamén falarei do meu novo proxecto Mobialia e das aplicacións para Android que teño feitas. A presentación de mañá se pode descargar no seguinte enlace:

android_sobrosoparty.pdf

Great GWT UI for Carballo Chess Engine

Lukas Laag has written me about his new  GUI for the Carballo Chess Engine  using the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) and his SVG Graphics Library for GWT, libgwtsvg.

GWT is provided from Google to develop applications in Javascript programming in Java. It conterts the Java code to Javascript, and the application is run on . . . → Read More: Great GWT UI for Carballo Chess Engine

Rakarrak: The Linux Guitar Effects Processor

Recently, navigating the Debian repositories I found Rakarrack, an Open Source Linux program to simulate various guitar effects in real time. This sound effects are often done with expensive physical sound processors, but this application makes it all with only one cheap computer (well, I suppose that the quality will rely a lot on . . . → Read More: Rakarrak: The Linux Guitar Effects Processor

Programa Banda Ancha da Radio Galega

Na úlima Noite Galega das Telecomunicacións (a cena anual do colexio de enxeñeiros de telecomunicación) tiven a sorte de coñecer a Xosé María Fernández Pazos, director da Revista Codigo Cero e do programa da Radio Galega Banda Ancha. Por certo, a última hora, a directiva do colexio tomou a esperpéntica decisión de non reparti-los . . . → Read More: Programa Banda Ancha da Radio Galega