Google DevFest 2010
As many of you know, this year I’m involved on Android with my project Mobialia. On February I was on the Android Developer Lab at Madrid and today I returned for the Google DevFest. The event started with Dave Burke…
Category Computers
Mobialia Chess for Android
The new version 2.0 adds the support to play online on freechess.org (FICS). You can play against people all around the world and compare your chess knowledge. Thousands of hours of entertainment with this new version. Also has many improvements…
Manifesto: Na defensa dos dereitos fundamentais en Internet
Ante a inclusión no anteproxecto de lei sobre a economía sostible das modificacións lexislativas que afectan o libre exercicio das liberdades de expresión, de información e o dereito de acceso á cultura a través de Internet, os xornalistas, blogueiros, usuarios,…
Carballo Chess Engine 0.3
At last, the first “stable” release of my chess engine. The main new features are: Static Exchange Evaluator (SEE): the biggest change, affects move ordering introducing more move generation phases, also affects LMR, etc. New “experimental” evaluation function, with King…
Opera Mini 5
I’ve been using Opera Mini 4 for 1 year and I prefer it over the Symbian integrated browser because is faster, simpler and smaller. Now Opera announced the avaiability of an Opera Mini 5 Beta. The main new features are:…
Carballo Chess Engine
Two months ago I read a post about Toledo Nanochess in Microsiervos, and remembered my failed attemps to make a chess program in Pascal/Assembler when I was younger. So 13 years later I wrote my chess program from scratch in…
Snippet: Join PDFs with pdftk
With pdftk we can (as well as a lot of other PDF-related operations) join PDFs in Linux, wich is something very useful. This is one example: # pdftk file1.pdf file2.pdf file3.pdf cat output file_output.pdf For windows there is also Pdftk…
Port de Sphider a PostgreSQL
Acabo de publicar una modificación del excelente motor de búsqueda Sphider para que funcione con PostgreSQL. Esta modificación la hicimos en Ingeniería de Prefabricados S.L. para la nueva web coporativa del Grupo Castelo. Curioso ver como miles de proyectos dejan…
Yahoo! oneSearch
Nunca vi muy útil la aplicación de búsqueda de Google que pulsando el botón “lápiz” en los Nokia te abre una caja de texto en la que puedes introducir los términos a buscar. No obstante, esta semana he probado una…
Snippet: Hacer un screencast con Byzanz
Esta herramienta nos permite generar screencasts (grabaciones de nuestro escritorio) en formato GIF animado (sin sonido, claro). Por ejemplo, para generar un screencast de 60 segundos, y que espere 2 segundos para empezar a grabar: # byzanz-record -c -d 60…