alberto
2010-03-09 17:09

 

In the next weeks I am going to write a series of blog posts covering our agile planning and development process. In this first post I'll introduce the agile approach, its benefits and key differences to the traditional approach.

The traditional ways of planning software projects have shown that [1]:

  • 2/3 of the projects overrun their cost estimates
  • 65% of the ...
juanjo
2010-02-10 15:28

En la última reunión de Las Palmas on Rails dí una charla sobre compass y sass. La intención de la charla era explicar de manera introductoria compass y sass y crear la curiosidad en los asistentes por probarlo.

Aquí está la presentación:

...
juanjo
2009-12-11 10:02

If you are an Inkscape and Mac lover like me, you may have downloaded the latest 0.47 release for Leopard. I experienced a problem copying and pasting vector objects in the same document. Inkscape did paste the vector objects as bitmap images, which was really annoying. After a quick research I found out it was a problem of a funcionality of X11. Just go to X11->Preferences->Pasteboard and uncheck  the "active synchronization" checkbox. Unchecking just the "Update Pasteboard when...

juanjo
2009-10-21 13:34

I will be attending the Medica 2009 in Düsseldorf.  If you happen to be around and want to have a chat just write or ...

alberto
2009-08-29 00:00

Over the last weekend i participated with Alejandro González, Kilian Barrera and Carlos Urbin in the Rails Rumble contest.

Our team Horcon boys had the idea to develop a web application that helps you...

alberto
2009-05-01 00:00

It’s been a year or two since we have been using cruisecontrol.rb as a continuous integration server for our rails projects. We have also been using capistrano for some time to deploy our applications.

Lately i had been wanting to take it one step further and set up continuous deployment so i started looking for a ccrb plugin which supported deploying projects on successful...

alberto
2009-04-18 00:00

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alberto
2009-04-18 00:00

The guys from Phusion have developed a passenger module for nginx. The development of was sponsored by EngineYard.

This is great news!

Read more about the release here

alberto
2009-03-13 00:00

EuRuko is the annual European Ruby conference. This year will be happening on the 9th and 10th of May 2009 at Citilab in Barcelona, Spain. I will be attending so if you see me around say hi!

 

alberto
2009-03-12 00:00

Last Friday i attended the Future of Web Applications conference which was held at the Liberty Hall Centre in Dublin, Ireland.

It had been 4 years since i had left Ireland after living there for 1 year working at MLE. I had a great time walking around the city recalling nice memories and catching up with some old friends.

Here comes a selection of what i liked most. The other talks were also quite good but i’m just...