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…

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…

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…

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: FLV video encode

Using mencoder in Linux, we can convert any video to FLV and embed it in a web page with Flowplayer. In this sample video is encoded at 320×240 300 kbps and audio at 56kbps: # mencoder -forceidx -of lavf -oac…

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…