MiscWorld

what do you think?

how many times we find ourselves trying to sell a good project that, because of its ugly look, ends in the garbage bin? Do you think an engineer should have some lessons on aesthetics? art? or leave that right minded work to the guy who used to be in ballet lessons at the university?

Hello all.

Since November I have been using the Microsoft 2008 Express Suite. Nice suite, but a big change since these last months I was only on the Java side. C# is one of those languages you can easily fall in love with.

Most of the applications I’m developing are for web, and it has been a great opportunity to use some of the DHTML libraries I’ve found on the web to create those new fancy interfaces. From accordions to drag and drop everything seemed so nice… until I faced the challenge to create a full Outlook-like calendar. I have been three or four days testing different libraries, and I’m afraid I will have to create it from the ground up. I’m very lazy for JavaScript programming… and specially if I have to integrate it with an existing library, including objects and events and all that stuff… uff, anyway… I think it’s time to start programming… or pushing the creative neuron further…

I love Dilbert!

Last sunday I upgraded my website software… phew!, It was a long task, but final result was very pleasant :-). Right now it’s running on Wordpress 1.5. Very nice. One major change was the use of subdomains instead of subdirectories. I pretend to keep all blogs cleaner by putting each one in its own subdomain space. The price is some broken links on the net ;-)…

This tree is in my garden… yummi, yummi

Two months ago I designed this logo for an internal company product contest. I didn’t win, but I learned a lot. Xara made the work very simple, and well… hope you like it as much as I do…

Ubuntu 8.04 was released last week. This release includes features like:

• Firefox 3 Beta 5: Web browser
• Desktop Effects enabled by default: Window shadows, wobbling, animations, desktop on a 3D cube, transparency and a lot more.
• Gnome 2.22: Window manager
• Open Office 2.4: Office productivity suite.
• PDF printer… and a lot more.

More information on ubuntu.com and gnome.org

Three weeks ago I had to work on polyominoes for a final project. Since I had to program an enumeration quickly, I wanted to find a simple algorithm to do it. Well, my search was hard. I barely found information on enumeration algorithms and read the work of many people including Redelmeier, Knuth and Ares Ribó. I chose to go the Redelmeier way because of the short time to complete the task. Here you can find part of my work, as well as some documents that explain more on this topic.

Presentation: Polyominoes

Redelmeier’s algorithm: Counting Polyominoes, Yet Another Attack

and finally (special thanks to Luc Maranget): Implementation in C

Ok, first time was fun, but now I hate it… I have deleted about 1000 spam comments in about a week… suggestions accepted…

Hey!, today while checking the comments for my site I found the amazing quantity of 117 comments… all of them spam! hahaha… this is a new record!

Finally, after six months… it was so heavy. This is my garden covered by hail.

Hey there!, I’m back after a week in the hospital. Must say I really missed the Internet. My recommendation: don’t skip any meal! Always make time to eat and enjoy every food. According to some Japanese ideals, you should enjoy each bite and let your body shake to the flavors mix. After all, this week was just a reminder to keep my life in balance…