My Firefox 4 setup
After two weeks since the Firefox 4 (FF4) release, I decided to switch back again to Firefox from Google’s Chrome. But I miss Chrome a lot, so I configured FF4 almost like a Chrome… ¿how? using those themes and plugins:…
Category Computers
A small problem with the facebook Android SDK
At Mobialia the lasts weeks I was involved on the development of a social app using , among other social networks APIs, the facebook API. For me it was easier to implement Twitter API access using only the signpost library,…
Mobialia at LabAndroid
This week I was speaking at LabAndroid, a spanish initiative about Android devices, apps and development. I developed a special app for this event called “Wikiplaces” and I made the code avaiable as open source on Google Code. This app…
Dealing with the “Bitmap Size Exceeds VM Budget” error
One of the most common errors that I found developing Android Apps is the “java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Bitmap Size Exceeds VM Budget” error. I found this error frecuently on activities using lots of bitmaps after changing orientation: the Activity is destroyed, created…
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…
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…