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Wednesday, April 09, 2008 7:50 AM

Offtopic: Photos from Zurich WL Training

It's been a while but I'm finally starting to "adapt" to living alone and buying all basic house stuff, so here are the photos from the Windows Live Training held at Zurich last month:
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008 9:54 PM

Doing things the right way == impossible?

Everyone has good and bad days. Today I've had one that started quite well but got worse and worse as the afternoon came. So, in order to reminder myself that I'm doing the right thing, I'm writing this post. One of my defects is that I always...
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Monday, January 14, 2008 10:51 PM

Cool App: Last.fm Mobile

I've been using Last.fm since almost a year, and apart from small defects (mostly strange music changes like from techno to Mozart xD) I love the app. One of the nice features it has is a simple API to interact with their servers and, for example...
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Wednesday, January 09, 2008 11:30 PM

Dual monitor: Fantastic Improvement

Spending tons of hours ("too many" some friends say) during the week in front of laptops can be very very bad for your neck. You should always use a normal monitor to avoid "humpback"-like positions. As I was starting to notice some...
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Sunday, December 30, 2007 2:17 PM

Recapitulation of 2007

This has been a year full of changes, so I'll try to make a short summary of the most relevant points. Related to work, after some months continuing doing .NET consulting services and development and a bit of training, the opportunity to start developing...
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Sunday, November 18, 2007 5:43 PM

A bit Off

This is just a small update to notify that I'm alive, but combining another parrondo party we had this friday with some pain in the neck I'm having lately (I fear that the reason is too much time with laptops), I'm not in the mood for coding...
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Thursday, October 25, 2007 7:42 PM

Enjoying your work (and teamwork)

Some days everyone gets so burned of the work that ends thinking "Have I chosen my correct job? Did I choose well?". But it's normal, and doesn't happens often if you enjoy what you do (even more if you work in what you have passion...
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Saturday, October 06, 2007 2:22 AM

Offtopic: Monkeys fixing stuff

I managed to get this few hours ago making a simple video search :) I'm starting to think that monkeys are going to rule the world . And as a sidenote, I can't resist to comment that probably the chimpanzee at Sony that thinks PS3 market strategies...
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Sunday, September 16, 2007 11:45 PM

Offtopic: Last friday Parrondo party

Each time a new employee starts working at ilitia , we celebrate what we call a "Parrondo", a party in where we drink tons of beer and cider and eat spanish tapas all night long. This time we hit a new record, with more than 70 people!!! (I...
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Sunday, September 09, 2007 11:30 PM

Back from a weekend in Salamanca, Spain

I've just came back from a weekend in Salamanca with some of my friends, so tomorrow I'll return to normal activity (and a new topic of which I'm going to start posting from now on). As usual, I've uploaded some photos to my web albums...
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Wednesday, September 05, 2007 8:45 PM

Humour: Did you know...?

Did you know that at ilitia we have an "uncommon" pet? His name is MeMata (something like "it kills me" in spanish), and he is a mixed public relations and developer that we adopted at Microsoft's Madrid CodeCamp 2006. He now lives...
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Monday, August 20, 2007 9:12 PM

Optimizing the time using your computer

While writing my previous post about optimizing time in the real world , I wanted to write about more computer specific things, but was not the place, so here's a second part centering on daily Windows use. Order the Start Menu : I've got my start...
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Sunday, August 19, 2007 4:10 PM

Optimizing the time in the real world

Sometimes we're asked to optimize code routines. To make them faster, more compact, less memory consuming... But what about real world? Have you tried to optimize your time in mudane tasks, in common things you do everyday? Here are some examples...
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Tuesday, August 14, 2007 2:26 AM

Offtopic: Weekend at London

I've just arrived today from spending the weekend at London with some friends. We went to see some friends that were there having vacations, and to go party and have some beers :D We didn't visit too much places because of the lack of time, but...
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Tuesday, August 07, 2007 8:43 PM

Upgrading my home machine network

It's time to spend some money and upgrade my home machines! As I love playing games and watching movies, I've bought a new gaming PC (a real monster). Also, I'm getting a new laptop for development (including JADE and XNA development ;) and...
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