Federico Mena Quintero

Mon 2010/Feb/08

  • Luciana was munching on sausage slices. She grabbed the curved end of one sausage, looked carefully at it, and exclaimed, "look, a little vault!".

    I guess that's what she learns in this house.

Monday 08th of February 2010 11:52:00 AM

markuz

Playing with Nokia S60.




Me :-)

Originally uploaded by markuz



I've just started playing with Nokia S60v5. I'm currently using Python to develop some learning stuff. Remember, Symbian is now Open Source, a little bit late, but Open Source at the end.

Monday 08th of February 2010 12:41:25 AM

LinuxMan

Como separar la parte entera de un número y sus decimales en PHP

Al trabajar con Codeka MX tuve que hacer una adaptación al momento de imprimir el total de una factura con letra.

Ejemplo del uso de la función explode

En México se acostumbra poner la parte entera de la cantidad con letra, seguido de un xx/100 M.N. para la parde decimal.

Por ejemplo:

3,527.50 sería tres mil quinientos veintisiete pesos 50/100 M.N.

Para esto hay que separar la parte entera de la parte decimal.

Después de ver varios enfoques, el que más me gustó por su sencillez fue utilizando la función explode.

Siguiendo con el ejemplo, supongamos que la variable $total contiene el valor que quiero separar.

$total = 3527.50

$decimales = explode(".",$total);

la variable decimales es un arreglo, de manera que almacena en el indice 0 lo que encuentre antes del punto, y en el indice 1 lo que sigue de manera que:

$decimales[0]  contiene el valor de  3527

y

$decimales[1]  contiene el valor de  50

Y eso es todo, así de simple.

Friday 05th of February 2010 04:42:05 PM

LinuxMan

Esto es México, Estrellas del bicentenario

Es de reconocer que los promocionales de Televisa titulados “Esto es México” están muy bien realizados.

Por ejemplo este video corresponde al estado de Chihuahua, con imágenes de Samalayuca, Divisadero, Barrancas del Cobre y la Cascada de Basaseachi.

En el de Tamaulipas se puede apreciar La Poza Azul en la biósfera El cielo en Gómez Farías, La pesca y Laguna de Morales en Soto La Marina y en Aldama el Cenote El Zacatón y la Gruta Los Cuarteles.

Por comentarios de conocidos que viven en los estados me han dicho que se han quedado cortos en la belleza de los paisajes. :)

Thursday 04th of February 2010 01:17:00 PM

LinuxMan

Video tutoriales de Gimp

Maria “tatica” Leandro es la autora de esta serie de video tutoriales enfocados al uso de Gimp, nuestro editor de imágenes favorito.

De una manera sencilla explica como mejorar tus fotos, todos son muy recomendables, me esta enseñando herramientas y técnicas que no conocía.

Por ejemplo, siguiendo este tutorial:

Mejoré un par de fotos:

Plaza Tacuba

Última Morada - Panteón de Dolores

A las chicas quizas les llame más la atención este otro,, Piel de Porcelana con Gimp.

Thursday 04th of February 2010 11:02:11 AM

LinuxMan

Rescatemos Torreón

Rescatemos Torreon de la delincuencia

“Rescatemos Torreón” no solo fue un lema de campaña, también significa un compromiso, los principales motivos de cambio de un gobierno panista a uno priista fueron la falta de empleo y la delincuencia.

Lamentablemente en la madrugada del domingo hubo balaceras que cobraron la vida de muchos jóvenes.:

Escuadrones mortales masacran en Torreón, Coahuila. Y no conformes también atacan en los velorios de las victimas.

Ayer teníamos ganas de ir al cine, gracias a Dios no lo hicimos …

Pánico en el ‘mall’: El enfrentamiento entre fuerzas federales y un grupo armado, provocó que un centro comercial ubicado sobre el Periférico cerrara sus puertas para proteger a sus clientes. (Video de El Siglo de Torreón)

Llamadas de celulares por todos lados, la ciudad se convirtió en zona de guerra, establecimos rutas alternas y ubicamos a nuestros seres queridos. En los foros de El siglo de Torreón pueden leer una crónica de lo sucedido en galerías.

“Rescatemos Torreón” no es solamente pavimentar calles ( y para colmo lo hacen mal ), es brindar seguridad para que eventos como estos no ocurran, si al menos agarraran a alguien, pero lo único que reportan las noticias son las bajas y el número de casquillos que recogieron.

Mis condolencias a las familias.

Torreón esta de luto y vive con miedo.

¡Diosito, cuídanos!

Tuesday 02nd of February 2010 10:01:40 AM

El Jugger

Las peores 5 postales navideñas

Ahora que termino por fin el asunto ese de la navidad, y que se han juntado en las calles unos cuantos miles de arbolitos podridos, hemos dado una vueltecita por los foros y los perfiles de FaceBook tirando veneno por las fotos ajenas y he notado que hay algunas notablemente espantosas, y veo con agrado [...]
Saturday 30th of January 2010 02:45:32 PM

LinuxMan

Marte muy cerca de la luna (Enero 2010)

En estas fechas se ha podido observar una bella luna llena y eso es ocasionado porque esta en su perigeo.

Pero no esta sola, muy cerca de la luna se puede apreciar muy bien el planeta Marte que el 29 de enero entró en oposición.

Para que les ayude a ubicarse tomé esta imagen usando el ya muy conocido programa libr Stellarium

Marte, Enero 2010

La imagen corresponde a la región de la Comarca Lagunera como a eso de las 8 de la noche. ¡Felices observaciones!

Saturday 30th of January 2010 10:56:58 AM

alo

Next destination The Gambia

It's been a while since the last time I post something unrelated to my work or the projects I'm working on. Of course, that doesn't mean I've been doing nothing but working. In fact, a whole lot of things have happened in the past few months.

The thing I personally enjoyed the most was an amazing, one month long trip to Southeast Asia. I must admit, I didn't know much about the region, and I was very pleasantly surprised about what a great place to visit it turned out to be.

Thailand

Laos

Cambodia

Vietnam

Singapore

Indonesia

Actually, we have been eager to make a new trip since we came back in October. We wanted it to be something different. Since our previous destination was Asia, and Europe and America was not appealing enough at this moment, we chose Africa as the next destination. More specifically, we planed a week long trip to The Gambia.

We'll be leaving to Banjul within a few hours. I am pretty excited about it! :-)

What does that mean? Firstly, I'll be off for a week. I won't commit any code to Cherokee, CTK or any of the projects I'm involved with. Ohhh.. and I'll forget about 'bellow zero degree Celsius' temperatures, it's quite warm over there. Hurray!! :-)

Saturday 30th of January 2010 08:54:57 AM

markuz

Right now




Right now

Originally uploaded by markuz



3:20 in the morning and I'm working, I need to finish a program that I wrote almost a year ago, that was a Demo program and in 4 days (right now just 2) should be production ready!... I'm gonna need a double Monster dosis.

Saturday 30th of January 2010 04:29:48 AM

markuz

Monster




Monster

Originally uploaded by markuz



Working :-)

Friday 29th of January 2010 01:08:55 PM

markuz

I finally killed Raam





I finally killed Raam

Originally uploaded by markuz
The past two weeks I have been playing Gears of War on my spare time which is becoming less everyday.
Well, I had never played Gears even when it is a game that has been arround by more or less two years. It's a little addictive game, more when you are in multi-player mode which I enjoyed playing with my brother.
Yesterday I finally beat Raam, the last boss in the game, to me, was very very difficult to beat because I do it in single player mode and the fucking Dom does nothing.
I'm checking for GoW 2 right now :-).

Thursday 28th of January 2010 11:51:41 AM

Jonathan Schwartz

Where Life Takes Me Next...

You've probably seen the news - the Sun/Oracle transaction has closed. With the passing of that milestone, I can once again speak freely.

Having had nine months to accelerate down the runway, there's not a doubt in my mind Oracle's takeoff and ascent will be fast and dramatic. I wish the combined entity the best of luck, and have enormous confidence in the opportunity.

Greg Papadopoulos, one of the brightest people I've ever known, once made a very interesting statement - all technology ultimately becomes a fashion item. It was true for timekeeping, and it's definitely true of computing and telecommunications. To that law, I'd like to add a simple corollary: the technology industry only gets more interesting. It's been true my entire life.

As for where life takes me next, you should follow me via Twitter at openjonathan to find out. I'll also be rehosting this blog (and again, stay tuned to Twitter by following me here). I expect to do my part to keep things interesting.

Thank you for your support and commitment. I wish you all the best of luck building, taking advantage of (and likely wearing) the future!

Jonathan Schwartz
CEO, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
A Wholly Owned Subsidiary of Oracle Corporation.

Wednesday 27th of January 2010 01:53:50 PM

El Jugger

10 cocteles rapidos

Para que no digan que aqui pura inutildiad, aqui les van mis 9 recetas para prepara cocteles express y asegurar el chupe ameno… el ultimo es la neta!! 1. Margarita: 4 tazas de hielo picado 1 y 1/4 litro de tequila blanco Chorrito de de Cointreau el jugo de 4 limones verdes 2. Medias de seda: 1 lata de leche condensada 1 [...]
Monday 25th of January 2010 03:45:50 PM

El Jugger

Jijo de la gran pu?

Esto si es reclamar!! Sugerido por Mery
Friday 22nd of January 2010 04:38:43 PM

El Jugger

La Perrucha? ¿No es de Tenosique?

A donde vuelan las criaturas de Tenosique, cuando el pueblo ya les queda demasiado pequeño… Dice que es Cd. Juarez, pero ya sabemos de varios renegados que dicen ser de Juarez, y son de otro lado.  Este es el caso de La Perrucha… Que solia ser compañero de la Secun del Pcero
Thursday 21st of January 2010 06:26:01 PM

Federico Mena Quintero

Thu 2010/Jan/21

  • So you live in an apartment? Permaculture for renters seems like a good resource. Grow fish and strawberries and a worm bin out of table scraps, in under 2m².

Thursday 21st of January 2010 10:24:00 AM

Federico Mena Quintero

Wed 2010/Jan/20

  • "A Pattern Language", by Christopher Alexander et al, is the book that I have been preaching around with patterns for architecture and urbanism. See the full online version.

    (That online version is a bit weird; you have to click on the leftmost vertical frame to access the page for each pattern. Other than that, it seems to work mostly fine.)

  • If you are into that sort of thing, the Emergent Urbanism blog is excellent. It takes Alexander's ideas and tries to mathematize them, while exposing a plethora of examples and insightful results.

    You may want to read an introduction to that blog in its introductory essay.

  • And by the way, a lesson on usability based on these principles.

  • The New York City Department of Transportation has a very enlightened administration these days. See their new Street Design Manual for some great information about how to improve streets with gradual changes: geometry, materials, safety, bicycles, trees, pedestrians, etc.

Wednesday 20th of January 2010 03:14:00 PM

markuz

Which one??




19012010.jpg

Originally uploaded by markuz



Sofia is trying to decide which one is about to be in her mouth. In the right hand a cookie, in the left hand the belt

Wednesday 20th of January 2010 10:30:41 AM

El Jugger

Mis 12 Propósitos Para Año Nuevo!

Alo, alo mis condoncitos reciclados de Tenosique!!! Feliz , gozoso y húmedo año a todoooos!!! Si, ya se que los he tenido abandonados como Sindicato de Electricistas y Pirujas de la Merced… Pero mis multiples ocupaciones que incluyen mis viajes sexuales alrededor del mundo.. me han impedido venir a echarles un huesito… Digo, pa huesos , ahi esta [...]
Wednesday 20th of January 2010 02:13:01 AM

markuz

Home office..




Home office..

Originally uploaded by markuz



This is my new "home office", very similar to the old one I had when I start working for ICT Consulting.
This time the linksys is not here and the mango became a wireless mouse, Cucusa became into Volvagia, I also have a hammer, just in case everything stop working or I get really really pissed.

Thursday 14th of January 2010 08:16:18 PM

El Jugger

Nuestro propio cielo

Nuestro propio cielo (2007) Muy buen corto, alta densidad de la chava, excelente final… no te lo pierdas… y no llores!… nada mas acuerdate!
Thursday 14th of January 2010 03:53:21 PM

markuz

Christine 0.6.1

I just want to let you know that Christine 0.6.1 is in the net now You can download the sources from here: Binary Packages
Wednesday 13th of January 2010 10:01:02 PM

alo

Cherokee Summit brochure

Since the Cherokee Summit 2010 was announced, there's been a couple of friends who have asked me for an announcement brochure/mail they could circulate in their organizations.

Here is the small PDF file (~100KB) we have written for the occasion so you guys can let your colleagues know about the summit. It includes both English and Spanish versions.

Do not hesitate to send it to any coworker or friend who would be interested in attending a High Performance and Scalable Web event.

Wednesday 13th of January 2010 11:24:18 AM

markuz

They are supposed to be 2Mb




They are supposed to be 2Mb

Originally uploaded by markuz



I just want to say Fuck you TelMex!!!!

Tuesday 12th of January 2010 08:24:28 PM

markuz

Fingers




Fingers

Originally uploaded by markuz



Yeap, my fingers can feel the cold too. The last days have been a very cold days here in my town. The problem is that my fingers get frozen and I then I can't write anything.
I cut my gloves, only the tip to allow my fingers tip to touch the keyboard.

Monday 11th of January 2010 10:59:00 AM

alo

Cherokee Summit 2010

It's been a while since people started asking us about holding a conference fully dedicated to the Cherokee project. As you can suppose, putting together a conference needs an immense amount of work, so it took us a while to get the ball rolling.

However, now we are ready to announce the details "Cherokee Summit 2010". It will be held on the 7th and 8th of May, in Madrid, Spain. This will tie in with the 1.0 release of Cherokee, and so we will be also having a 1.0 release party on Saturday May 8th!

All the details including a schedule of speakers will be made available at the conference's web site: http://summit.cherokee-project.com/

Besides the Cherokee related subjects, the summit will also be covering other High Performance and Scalable Web topics, so our fellow developers from projects such as Ruby on Rails, Django, PHP or Apache can also join the discussion.

It is important to notice that we have managed to make Cherokee Summit free for all the attendees, which looks pretty good compared to the usual ~1000€ fee for similar conferences.

On the downside, the conference will be limited to around 80 people, so if you’d like to rub shoulders with a a bunch of heavy-duty web infrastructure developers, be sure to register as soon as possible.

We look forward to seeing those that can make it.
It is going to rock!

Update (Mon Jan 11 16:00:14): Unixwars on the Cherokee Summit.

Monday 11th of January 2010 07:07:20 AM

B3co

Estatua de la Libertad

statue of liberty


Foto tomada a -16 grados con sensación térmica de -20, desde Battery Park al sur de Manhattan. Sentía que perdía los dedos por quitarme los guantes para tomar la foto. A partir de esta, todas las tomé con guantes aunque me tardara más.

Espero pronto tener tiempo para un post en forma, que eso de regresar a trabajar no tiene nada de simpático...
Wednesday 06th of January 2010 11:44:43 AM

El Jugger

ELJUGGER.COM HACKEADO!!!!!!!

Monday 04th of January 2010 07:17:15 PM

El Jugger

Rumbo al 2010

Me han dicho de cosas porque en este blog no hay nada navideño, ni de fin de año, ni cursilerias de esas, no es que sea grinch, simplemente soy algo indiferente a las celebraciones consumistas, pero bueno, realmente espero que pasen una buena noche, y que terminen el año felices, y por supuesto, que [...]
Thursday 31st of December 2009 12:05:15 AM

El Jugger

Frases en twitter, frases divertidas

Pues aqui le va un compendio de los mejores twitazos de este mes dentro de mi perfil , sin duda un glorios mes digno de fin de año “Si buscas una aguja, no busques en un pajar, busca en un costurero” (Brisco County Junior) #frases #zape Rectificar es de sabios equivocados #zape Dale un pescado al hambriento y [...]
Wednesday 30th of December 2009 07:46:56 AM

El Jugger

Frases en twitter, frases divertidas

Pues aqui le va un compendio de los mejores twitazos de este mes dentro de mi perfil , sin duda un glorios mes digno de fin de año “Si buscas una aguja, no busques en un pajar, busca en un costurero” (Brisco County Junior) #frases #zape Rectificar es de sabios equivocados #zape Dale un pescado al hambriento y [...]
Wednesday 30th of December 2009 07:46:56 AM
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