tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-148672992011-11-30T10:00:40.503-08:00I'm no expert on <?>, but I have a brain, so here it goes...Villahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12794791452594048167noreply@blogger.comBlogger401100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14867299.post-51336496675208969902009-05-19T15:37:00.000-07:002009-05-19T15:43:41.877-07:00

This is old news for most, and I wanted to post this sooner: on April 22nd, Last.fm killed all free radio outside of the US, UK and Germany.This sucks for Fire.fm, because we lose a lot of the motivation we had to work on it. One of the great things about Last.fm is the fact that it worked everywhere. Now you need a subscription, which is not expensive, but it's still money. Most people I know

Villahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12794791452594048167noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14867299.post-16766825940274722952009-05-19T15:31:00.000-07:002009-05-19T15:37:41.011-07:00

Some 3 weeks ago, I stopped working full time for Glaxstar. I decided to move on and try to be on my own for a while; see where my imagination takes me. I'll continue doing some work for Glaxstar every now and then, but I'm mostly focusing on my own projects now.I'm so picky when it comes to actually starting something on my own. I don't like doing what everyone else is doing, so that makes

Villahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12794791452594048167noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14867299.post-22107931219063239482008-08-21T17:44:00.000-07:002008-08-21T17:57:54.716-07:00

We won!Only a few hours ago, Mozilla announced that Fire.fm won in the Best Music Add-on category of the Extend Firefox 3 contest. We were aiming for Best New Add-on as well, but hey, you can't have everything, can you?There's also coverage of the contest results at Life Hacker. Be sure to vote in the poll for Fir... er, your favorite winner. Ahem.I'm very pleased that we won, because it took a

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Last Thursday, July 3rd 2008, marked the release of Fire.fm 1.0, an extension built from scratch by a team of two, myself included. This extension allows you to listen to most of the radio stations available at Last.fm, and it integrates with Firefox smoothly, bringing your browsing experience and music discovery together. Get it now. And now to the history lesson.I've always been

Villahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12794791452594048167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14867299.post-28693746127105173152008-06-02T07:57:00.000-07:002008-06-02T08:22:18.095-07:00

Last night Costa Rica was the first country in Central America to join the 1000 club.No, it's not a religious thing. Costa Rica was the first country in the region to accumulate over 1K pledges on the Firefox World record site, taking the lead over the Dominican Republic, which was leading the race before last weekend. So I assume there's some real momentum building up around here, and soon we'll

Villahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12794791452594048167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14867299.post-39993546040414349802008-05-28T15:57:00.000-07:002008-05-28T16:03:12.730-07:00

OK, reader(s), I'm back from the dead for a quick post on Firefox. The final release of Firefox 3 is approaching, and it is damn good, damn good I tell you. I'm rarely this excited about a bunch of bits, but Firefox 3 is really something that I feel brings a whole new feel to web browsing.Anyway, I'm only posting today because I wanted to announce Download Day, intended to set a Guinness World

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(no words)

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Well, other than the obvious ones, of course :P.Things are great for me these days, so I thought it was time for an update. If I sound unbearably smug and arrogant then this post has accomplished its mission. It's just a really good time to be me.Firstly, I participated for the second time in a TopCoder competition. This time it was just a local competition, with Syracuse competitors only. Oddly

Villahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12794791452594048167noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14867299.post-1157413031645498402006-09-04T16:20:00.000-07:002006-10-23T12:25:48.196-07:00

I currently (and for a very long time to come, I hope) work for Glaxstar, a very interesting startup that specializes in the Mozilla development platform. After talking with Ian and ultimately meeting him in person I knew I wanted to be a part of this. This is one person who truly impresses me, and that is very rare.We're doing really well, and this shows with the expansion of the Costa Rican

Villahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12794791452594048167noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14867299.post-1151867136339737662006-07-02T11:57:00.000-07:002006-08-16T00:07:52.693-07:00

A couple of days ago I decided to fork my blogging efforts and create a second blog, dedicated exclusively to my XUL experiences. The point of this blog is to publicize answers to problems I've met along the way and I've had an incredibly hard time finding solutions for. Hopefully this will be one of those blogs that popup on the search engine results when you've completely given up and don't

Villahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12794791452594048167noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14867299.post-1147907749138684512006-05-17T16:11:00.000-07:002006-05-17T16:17:20.546-07:00

Software security is a very big deal. It's constantly on everybody's minds. Operating system, enterprise application and small application developers alike are very concerned (or should be very concerned) in creating products that are both stable and secure. Otherwise, they better pray their products remain unpopular and unimportant. The Mozilla Foundation is learning this with their increasingly

Villahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12794791452594048167noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14867299.post-1147892760462007292006-05-17T11:53:00.000-07:002006-05-17T14:35:35.453-07:00

I have some time on my hands and decided to kill a couple of TODOs which have been on my list for quite a while. I'm planning on using some SVG magic to create a Firefox extension, so I decided to practice some SVG and get better acquainted with it. It's pretty simple once you get the hang of it. This is actually my second incursion into the SVG world. The other image I created might make it to

Villahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12794791452594048167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14867299.post-1143932959538533072006-04-01T15:07:00.000-08:002006-04-01T15:09:19.556-08:00

I found this great piece called: The Cure for Information Overload. Be sure to check it out. I never thought I spent/wasted so much time online till I read it.(yeah, I'm late. whatever)

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I've been incredibly busy lately with some side projects I'm working on, plus college assignments and that thing... what do you call it? Oh, yeah: life. Yeah, whatever. I'll try to add something else soon; those projects I mentioned will be an important part of this blog, but they have been delayed for various reasons, one of them being that I'm a deranged obsessive-compulsive that can't have his

Villahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12794791452594048167noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14867299.post-1138910103070699822006-02-02T11:40:00.000-08:002006-12-25T05:10:03.530-08:00

There's a new Firefox fan site, called Femfox, which will raise a lot of eyebrows and hopefully will help promote Firefox on a very different level than has been done so far. It uses the power of sex appeal to attract people to Firefox advertisements, which is something that Firefox campaigns have lacked until now.If you go to the Downloads section, you'll find that the site launched with a

Villahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12794791452594048167noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14867299.post-1137643589757244562006-01-18T09:38:00.000-08:002006-02-12T14:13:48.360-08:00

When I click on a link on a page, I want the browser to go to that page. Nothing more, nothing less, nothing else. A simple anchor tag with a simple href. Sometimes even javascript is acceptable, but I'm not very fond of those types of link. I hate it when I click on something without knowing where I'm going or what's happening in the background.Some people may wonder what's the point of having

Villahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12794791452594048167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14867299.post-1136838157483586162006-01-09T11:29:00.000-08:002006-01-09T12:22:40.916-08:00

Unpredictability is something most software developers don't want to see in their creations. Gotta hate when that program crashes right after it was working "just fine". I'm sure events give GUI developers headaches and hardware interrupts give kernel developers horrible, horrible nightmares. Most of us work striving for quite the opposite: total predictability and reliability. And I am happy

Villahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12794791452594048167noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14867299.post-1136536543209239282006-01-06T00:29:00.000-08:002006-01-06T00:35:43.220-08:00

I arrived to the UK yesterday after the longest trip I've ever had, and I'm already experiencing the difference. I saw a road sign yesterday that said this:"Tiredness can kill. Take a break."Traffic accident prevention or life philosophy? I for one am adding this to my list of life mottos. Maybe it's just a way to justify the endless hours I've wasted playing Ultima 7 recently. Oh, well, those

Villahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12794791452594048167noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14867299.post-1135399243572855902005-12-23T20:03:00.000-08:002006-03-05T14:25:00.206-08:00

I need to learn to keep my promises better. I haven't posted once on this break, and I said I would be doing much more of that these days. Well, a lot has happened, so time has been way too short. With my parents in town, end of semester, grades, money, and my upcoming trip to the UK, things have been quite hectic. Still, it has been good. But I will be doing some posting next week. I promise...

Villahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12794791452594048167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14867299.post-1133307887822951702005-11-29T15:31:00.000-08:002006-10-26T19:33:17.893-07:00

Firefox 1.5 has been released today! I you are a Firefox user, you should upgrade as soon as possible to enjoy all the cool new features. The most important: automatic (patch) updates and drag and drop reordering of tabs. It's freaking sweet.I you haven't used Firefox yet, then you have a lot of catching up to do. Download it now and you will know what a real browser should be like :).There's

Villahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12794791452594048167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14867299.post-1132870719877963282005-11-24T14:07:00.000-08:002005-11-24T14:18:39.886-08:00

Did you notice the diagonal Firefox band on the top right corner? I hope you did. I think it's very appealing and unintrusive, and a great way to do marketing without affecting the general look of the site. Most sites don't have content on that area, so I think it's more than appropriate to place your advertisements there.If you want to get your own I recommend you to visit http://

Villahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12794791452594048167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14867299.post-1132546018247926592005-11-20T19:49:00.000-08:002005-11-20T20:06:58.266-08:00

This is just some random flashback I had just now. It has nothing to do with... well, anything. It's just a funny anecdote that some computer people might enjoy and/or relate too.Some time ago I was discussing with a friend about password length, and the importance of passwords being long enough. I'm not very paranoid about security, but I like to have strong passwords, that are longer than 11

Villahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12794791452594048167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14867299.post-1132191997836408792005-11-16T17:35:00.000-08:002005-11-16T17:46:37.846-08:00

A very powerful tool with a very odd name came to my attention today. This tool is a simple website called Frappr!, which sits upon the Google Maps API with one basic idea: globally locate people that have some common interest. You create your group and ask anybody to join the group. People that join the group enter location details so that a bubble appears on the map for each group member. I

Villahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12794791452594048167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14867299.post-1131149157624940882005-11-04T15:49:00.000-08:002005-11-04T16:05:57.636-08:00

I don't see myself as an open source zealot (try to ignore the multiple Firefox ads and contain your laughter if possible), but I think it has a great deal of advantages over closed source. I would like to discuss one that I haven't seen mentioned anywhere else and I think is very important. As a reminder to my reader(s) I don't do any research before writing so I'm pretty sure this is far from

Villahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12794791452594048167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14867299.post-1130892182317430732005-11-01T16:16:00.000-08:002005-11-04T15:03:33.456-08:00

A friend of mine decided to put Google Ads on his personal site and that got me thinking about it. I had never considered using it because I didn't see much point to it. In the end, they are just ads. I browse through possibly hundreds of pages per day and I have developed complete immunity to advertisements. I don't even use the very popular Adblock Firefox extension. I don't need it. I just

Villahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12794791452594048167noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14867299.post-1129072511481654932005-10-11T16:07:00.000-07:002005-11-04T15:06:05.433-08:00

Trying to get rid of one of those pesky bugs on your program? Yeah, we've all been there, several times. Can be very frustating.A good pointer for bug squashing IMO is this: Look for the most stupid and unrelated error you (or whoever coded that thing) could have made. Seriously, it has helped me many, many times. We are trained to avoid logic bugs, efficiency bugs, data loss bugs... but, stupid

Villahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12794791452594048167noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14867299.post-1128645157739688472005-10-06T16:43:00.000-07:002005-11-04T15:07:02.133-08:00

Again, crazy idea. A certain site I won't mention now is down due to security concerns, and the usual discussion regarding the hashing of passwords arises. "Don't they use hash+salt?", "MD5 shouldn't be used because it's vulnerable to dictionary attacks", "If they steal the hashed passwords they'll have all the time in the world to crack them", etc. The general concern is that there's people out

Villahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12794791452594048167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14867299.post-1128113755360682102005-09-30T13:13:00.000-07:002006-07-22T19:06:48.710-07:00

I just had the most random idea. I'm a subscriber of CNET Downloads (don't as me why) and just out of boredom I decided to check the top 50 download list (as a side note, look at the incredibly ugly URL chosen for a mostly permanent page). I usually like to see where Firefox stands and see all the other popular programs. I noticed something that is not new but stuck me in a different fashion

Villahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12794791452594048167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14867299.post-1127786087633388032005-09-26T18:14:00.000-07:002005-11-04T15:08:14.886-08:00

I've said it before and I'll say it again: umbrellas are one of the worst modern inventions I have ever used. I hate them. I absolutely hate them.Their usability is terrible. They're uncomfortable to carry, and it's ten times worse when they're wet, because you cant' just put them in your backpack. Some umbrellas come with this kind of Teflon coating, but that doesn't last much. They turn into

Villahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12794791452594048167noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14867299.post-1127273362990252622005-09-20T20:28:00.000-07:002005-11-04T15:11:20.516-08:00

Arrrr!!!! Yesterday was Talk Like a Pirate Day! What is it? I think the name is pretty self-explanatory. Sounds stupid, you say? Well, it's supposed to. I think it's gonna become one of those weird traditions that only Internet geeks know about. Are there non-Internet geeks? That's a good question... Anyway, it's a fun "holiday" that lets you act like a moron and convince yourself that you have a

Villahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12794791452594048167noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14867299.post-1126650653382863482005-09-13T15:27:00.000-07:002005-11-04T15:11:53.450-08:00

For everyone interested in the upcoming Firefox 1.5, a SpreadFirefox member (quantum00) created this incredible video that shows many of its new features. It's really great. You have to see it.'What's New in Firefox 1.5?' Training Video

Villahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12794791452594048167noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14867299.post-1126542744236568802005-09-12T09:28:00.000-07:002005-11-04T15:13:05.810-08:00

Found this test on a friend's blog and as usual I HAD to take it. I have a problem with online tests, I don't know. I'll look on my last blog, I think I have results from dozens of funny tests it took :). So, anyway, the score for the nerd test is (drumroll, please):I did pretty well, I think. Not as nerdy as expected. Taking this test should mean I'm extremely nerdy, though. I wonder if they

Villahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12794791452594048167noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14867299.post-1126312084864466552005-09-09T17:28:00.000-07:002005-11-04T15:13:31.613-08:00

This pic is from a trip I did to an island in the pacific coast of Costa Rica, my home country. I'm not the explorer type or the nature type, but this place was just awesome. I had a great time and was able to see why most tourists love this country :).I guess us locals don't appreciate much the place we live in. I'm sure most people who have visited Costa Rica can tell you so much more about it

Villahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12794791452594048167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14867299.post-1126210982428952572005-09-08T12:50:00.000-07:002005-11-04T15:14:01.890-08:00

I'm no expert in mail clients or servers, but I have a brain, so here it goes: configuring mail clients sucks donkey balls.This struck me today, when I was configuring Mozilla Thunderbird to access the university's mail server, so that I wouldn't have to login every time and deal with the almost obligatory ugliness and unfriendliness of webmail interfaces. After a long inspection of the site, I

Villahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12794791452594048167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14867299.post-1125853976149778692005-09-04T09:48:00.000-07:002005-11-04T15:16:38.850-08:00

I'm back now, after weeks of not having a computer I could call my own. All fellow geeks will acknowledge how painful that can be.My new laptop constitutes one of the final steps into completely adapting myself to this new world I'll be living in for the next months, maybe years. I've just moved to the US, where I'll get my masters in CS. The past weeks have been... well, interesting. Filled with

Villahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12794791452594048167noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14867299.post-1122912953004263022005-08-01T08:59:00.000-07:002005-11-04T15:17:24.320-08:00

I love playing Risk. It's my absolute favorite board game.If you don't know what Risk is, Wikipedia has a very good explaination, as usual :). It's basically a very interesting and addictive war strategy board game, in which you control armies and manage them in order to accomplish a secret objective. It's agressive, it's hard and it's a lot of fun.It takes hours to play a single game, and it's

Villahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12794791452594048167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14867299.post-1122664387384585622005-07-29T12:13:00.000-07:002005-11-04T15:17:55.236-08:00

A graphic designer made a funny pixelated cartoon of a group of us, so I posted this one to use as my photo in the account information :). And yes, my cheeks are in fact red.Me

Villahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12794791452594048167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14867299.post-1122657993403062492005-07-29T09:37:00.000-07:002005-11-04T15:18:13.676-08:00

Ain't crazy ideas fun? No? Well, you're not me so back off.So, last night, when I was trying to sleep (I have this slight insomnia situation going on) I had one of my somewhat frequent crazy ideas. I usually end up letting them go since I don't have the will or time to follow them, but now I think it might be good to just write them down and at least give them to the world so someone actually

Villahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12794791452594048167noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14867299.post-1122580507636395812005-07-28T10:43:00.000-07:002005-11-04T15:21:10.250-08:00

You may have noticed so far that I am quite a big supporter of the Firefox browser. I don't see myself as a zealot or a fanatic, but I guess some people will think otherwise. I think it's important to explain my motivation behind this so that all the icons, links and shameless publicity that you see on this blog are justified or at least understood.As a little side note: I'm mostly a Windows user

Villahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12794791452594048167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14867299.post-1122482411562687692005-07-27T09:11:00.000-07:002006-10-25T00:39:37.636-07:00

Hello, world. Might sound corny, but programmers will appreciate the joke :).I guess I'm a little late at creating a blog here, and it's pretty evident considering the amount of tries it took to get a decent user name. I've tried blogging before, on Xanga, but I guess that didn't took off. Maybe it's because of the more informal feel to it. I'll keep that blog for more personal stuff perhaps.

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