Changelog for the weekend of Apr 21st 2006.

- Pagination used to be 1,2,3 being 1 the latest posts. This was wrong, since a page would never have the same content. So now, we make 1, the page with the first posts ever, that way search engines will be able to index content properly.

- Pagination links axed. Now we have a simple combo box, it will be big, but at least you can jump to any page, from any page. This works also for bloggers with more than 30 posts.

- Added some scriptaculous effects to the blog thumbnail. When you put your mouse over there’s a ghetto border, and when you click on them, they flash you. Just to add a little life to it and demonstrate interaction.

- Added a “Hide” link next to “Read more…” on every post. If you click hide, it’ll do a nice scriptaculous effect to hide the post and roll up the lower posts, this way, if you want to read every new in a page, you dont have to scroll. Not that useful for people who like to scroll, or look for a specific new. If you refresh the page, the news will be shown again. Maybe we could use cookies to save hidden preferences and have somewhere an user preferences to clear the cookies (or they could just clean the cookies themselve, but not everybody is a geek like you)

- Brought back Lyric Browse and Lyric Search. (Soon we’ll have signup again, and lyric addition, but we want to improve considerably the control panel, and probably add lyrics revisions, also make lyrics behave as a wiki so that everyone can edit them, only problem is spam, captcha might help… ugh so much work, need help)

- Lots of CSS fixes

- Handled exception on unexistant blog id, it will default to show all blogs

- Made homepage tableless

- Put google ads on the bottom of the page on redirect. Will think of ways to make this not so annoying in the near future. Maybe have it appear randomly, have different sizes, or another kind of important info down there. Might use it to promote non-profit projects like FrostWire, or LinuxMachos.

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TODO:
Show Statistics per blog, Show overall Statistics, SnowRSS language opsurt, SnowRSS tag keyword support, show how long ago the post was added, along with the date, add tag based post search, add more blogs in english.

I just found out what this little RC on my imac is for. It looks cool, but I find it useless.

The marketeers of staples convinced me. I just think the whole easy button is hilarious, specially when you’re doing something that just won’t work no matter what you try… you just press the button the moment you finish… or if you try being real funny, press the button and expect for some magic.

The marketeers of staples convinced me. I just think the whole easy button is hilarious, specially when you’re doing something that just won’t work no matter what you try… you just press the button the moment you finish… or if you try being real funny, press the button and expect for some magic

Watch this Staples commercial where they fuck up when they use the easy button at the wrong place

I know, It’s useless, but all profits go to a foundation…

Greetings to the people of planetaonline.org since they promptly added this blog to their rooster of bloggers. My best wishes to their project.

Guby has been pretty busy latetly, to those who follow what I do, you probably heard the 7 podcast episodes I recorded for our main page, wedoit4you.com, in this process I learned to create much better podcasts than the past episodes for recorded for gubatron.com. So this only means, the next episode will be cool as hell, and I might bring a Venezuelan geek/hacker to talk about how he installed Mac OS X on his PC, step by step.

If you’re a stalker, you probably noticed how I’m not part of LimeWire.com anymore, my greetings to all the people at LimeWire, best wishes for their project. Also, you may have noticed (that is if you’re stalking me again) I’m oficially a member of the FrostWire project, on which I hope I’ll be able to contribute a bit more to the client itself (Let’s hope I’ll find the time, or become a much better developer as time goes on, so that I can do all the things I want).

If you’ve been checking the subversion logs (svn log svn://wedoit4you.com/home/svn/SnowRSS) you’ll see the activity on the SnowRSS project, several bugs have been fixed, and we’re gonna start working on supporting podcast media per post, and language association to each blogs. Patches are welcome

So, many ideas, we’re also in the process of opening wedoit4you.com’s source code (not that big a deal anyway), basically cause we want your help, in exchange I’ll offer you the chance to learn how to work in an open source environment, how to use subversion, how to send patches, and how to use your judgement to let me know how our code sucks now (which I know will suck, it’s so messy….)

Hang in there for the next podcast, will probably contain stuff about this new craze on the internet where everybody wants to do lots of things I had written down on my sketch books when I first came to NY (social networking), so now, I suppose what’s on my sketchbook, will probably kick off in the next year or two, and this time I won’t waste time

Gubatron

Remember the Nintendo PowerGlove?

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U.S. software maker Oracle is considering launching a version of the Linux operating system and has looked at buying one of the two firms dominating the technology, the Financial Times newspaper reported on Monday.

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Hace un tiempo ya se venia el rumor de que google estaba por sacar Google Calendars.

Hoy aproximadamente a la 1 de la madrugada lanzaron el servicio.

Al parecer el servicio permitira ver los horarios de tus amigos y familiares al lado de los tuyos, rapidamente agregar eventos mencionados en conversaciones de Gmail o aquellos eventos guardados en aplicaciones de calendario.

Puedes decidir quien puede ver tu calendario y que detalles puede ver. Puedes planear eventos, crear invitaciones, colocar recordatorios, y enviar recordatorios, asi como tambien llevar el control de las personas que confirmaron la asistencia (RSVP). Organizaciones pueden promocionar eventos.

Inclusive los recordatorios pueden enviarte notificaciones SMS.

Siempre he dicho aqui en todos los lugares de trabajo que SMS es algo que en Latinoamerica y Europa genera dinero, pero aqui aun no hay la cultura del SMS tal como la hay en otros lugares. Supongo que google quiere cambiar eso, veamos que sucede ahora que hacen esto con SMS, quizas otros seguiran el ejemplo viendo que google lo esta haciendo.

Lo otro que veo en el servicio es que tiene integracion con Google maps (si pones la direccion del evento a donde vas a asistir)

Ciertamente esto es algo que voy a utilizar extensivamente para planificar mis actividades.

Quien dijo que google no estaba haciendo nada en cuanto a Social Networking… [Google Groups, Google Talk, GMail, Google Calendars... si esas no son herramientas que poco a poco forman un super sitio de redes sociales no se que son, creo que a su manera tienen tremenda red social, inclusive con Google Analitycs y todo su poder de analisis pueden ver como personas entran y salen a sitios web, es increible el poder que tienen en el web... quizas por saber quien va a donde, y quien tiene trafico de verdad es por lo cual no estan gastando tanto dinero en comprar sitios web2.0 como Yahoo]

I put together this short clip with some footage I took while I was in Caracas last year. Venezuelan Capoeiristas from Senzala in Caracas are world class representants of this Martial Art which is taught as a dance form.

Greetings to world class capoeiristas Emerson, Katay, Mowgly, Extra and Fritanga.

Linux advocates are familiar with the refrain that would-be switchers in the graphic arts have to rely on Photoshop under Windows cuz it can do things that the GIMP can’t.An important but altogether different hurdle is the installed base of often expensive third-party Photoshop plugins.But a solution to that problem might be easier than you think.

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