Weblog Entries
Windows Vista sticker prank
Some time ago a website started to sell stickers that have the following printed on them: “Now slower and with more bugs”. It was just a matter of time before someone did something creative with them: Brad Carter stopped by a Target store, and slapped some of them on Windows Vista boxes.
As for my experience with Windows Vista, I can say that it has been OK except for the performance issues I’m getting on my machines with it. Match or not… Who knows? Anyway, Brad stuck more stickers on other objects as well.
Mixalia: My first web project
Every day new web applications are released aiming to make our lives easier, which is something you can actually see by yourself by reading any of the thousands of blogs and websites that discuss, review and create buzz around them.
As a person who enjoys reading sites like Mashable, Lifehacker or Downloadsquad, I always wondered about the possibility of making my own web application. Many of them are astonishingly complex, while others are quite simple… still I had no idea about what to do, until I stumbled upon PopUrls some time ago.
PopUrls is a well known mashup of the most popular social news websites, showing the headlines of those sites in a single page. The concept is fairly simple since it just shows part of the content from the RSS feeds that each site publishes, so I started to work on a similar website on my free time.
After a few weeks, Mixalia was finally ready. It’s in Spanish and the content focus is kind of different than in PopUrls, since it also fetches headlines from websites in several topics like general news, sports news, videogames, science, TV & entertainment, etc. On the other hand, this one is simpler than PopUrls since it lacks the interface customization options. The backend was made with the Simplepie PHP script, which makes the feed parsing job a piece of cake.
It may not look or feel like a Web 2.0 site, but some well known websites in Spanish have already wrote about it, driving some loyal traffic to the website.
New Year - New Blog
First off, Happy New Year!
I’ve been wondering about writing my own blog for a while, but schoolwork and other things were taking up so much of my time that I couldn’t.
Now since we just started 2008 and here in the southern hemisphere of the world we are on summer break, I thought it was a good idea to go for it this time.