The way of St. James by bike

I just finished my third way of St. James by bike, the french way. This was the first time that I am able to finish without too much incidents, so I’m telling my experience. My ways In the last years…

Converting Carballo to Kotlin

Kotlin is a JVM language developed by JetBrains: http://kotlinlang.org gaining momentum among Android developers. Kotlin has interesting features like: It can be compiled to bytecode compatible with Java >=6, allowing to use a lot of Java 7-8 features (lambdas…)  in Java…

Benchmarking Java to native compilers

Java to native compilers have been around for some years, and I was curious about if one of this solutions could improve the performance of my Carballo Chess Engine. I ran a tournament between binaries of the Carballo development version (1.5)…

Vender en Google Play desde España

Por aclamación popular os cuento los requisitos legales para vender aplicaciones en Google Play desde España. Me centraré en el caso de vender como trabajador autónomo, que es como estoy facturando en Mobialia. CONSIDERACIONES SOBRE GOOGLE WALLET En el Google…

Filmon: Free IPTV service

IPTV is in a great momentum. In Spain we saw the rise of a lot of platforms: Yomvi, MovistarTV, OrangeTV, Nubeox… mainly paid platforms, but I am only interested in channels in English and Filmon is a great (and legal)…

Running Android apps inside Chrome

I couldn’t believe it when somebody told me: Google is running Android apps in ChromeBooks and some selected apps can be installed from the Chrome Webstore. It works with a Chrome extension that implements an Android virtual machine running over…