Post archive for ‘computer’
Usando jQuery en Wordpress
Hoy estaba trabajando en un plugin para wordpress para la compañia que trabajo y tuve algunos problemas para usar ajax y me encontre este interesante tutorial que comparto con ustedes ademas de este recurso en la revista Smashing Magazine.
Tagged as ajax, jquery, wordpress+ Categorized as blogroll, computer/programming, projects
New Agregado Theme
I’m really exited with the new agregado theme provided by Smashingmagazine and just changed my theme, I’ve detected and corrected a couple of issues:
1. There’s a typo in the audioscrobber feed:
On the functions.php line 499 says:
$simple_url .= ‘/recentracks.rss’;
And should be:
$simple_url .= ‘/recenttracks.rss’;
2. I saw my flickr pictures being resized and comment two lines (103 annd [...]
Tagged as blog, theme+ Categorized as blogroll, computer/programming
User Centered Usability Design
This week I’ve learned about usability design centered on the users’ perspective, here are my favorites quotes from the book I’m reading:
“include in the definition of ’users’ those who manage direct users, those who receive products from the system, those who test the system, those who make the purchase decision and those who use competitive products”.
“When [...]
Tagged as design, programming+ Categorized as computer/programming
Busy Days
I’ve been busy with my master lately I’m in two very interesting classes, one e-business related and the second one related to interface design (I’m very interested on this one).
I’ll let you a couple of sites related to interface design interaction, http://www.useit.com and http://asktog.com.
I’m going to publish some of my first learning on this class [...]
Tagged as design, programming, usability+ Categorized as computer/programming
Zend Debugger + Eclipse + Apache
I wanted to install the zend debugger with eclipse and apache, and found this spanish tutorial, and want to resume the steps I followed:
I assume you have already installed eclipse 3.3 + pdt.
1. Download the corresponding debugger from: http://downloads.zend.com/pdt/server-debugger/, I use amd64 so I got ZendDebugger-5.2.12-linux-glibc23-x86_64.tar.gz.
2. Untar the file in a directory in your home, [...]
Tagged as debug, eclipse, php, programming+ Categorized as computer/programming
Site Revamped
Today finished the first part of my site update, that consist on an upgrade of the original hemingway theme to support wordpress 2.3.3, and the new widget functionality, also added some slick mini icons; removed the old code for the legacy hemingway bar.
On the photo side installed the excellent NextGen Gallery plugin, and I’m in [...]
Tagged as cmanon, hemingway, nextgen, pictures, plugin, wordpress+ Categorized as computer/eyecandy, computer/programming
February Screenshot
Here you have a screenshot of my desktop, I hope you liked:
Tagged as conky, gnome, linux, screenshot+ Categorized as computer/eyecandy, computer/linux, other/uncategorized
PHP MSSQL 2005 Problem - Solved
Trying to make a connection to a MS SQL Server 2005 database from PHP, I always got an error message using the mssql_connect saying:
Warning: mssql_connect() [function.mssql-connect]: Unable to connect to server: {servername}.
I tried several solutions like, updating the ntwdblib.dll (on windows; I had the same error on linux) library, configuring the tcp/ip properties on sqlexpress [...]
Tagged as 2005, database, php, programming, sql+ Categorized as computer/linux, computer/programming, other/uncategorized
Transfer DVD to iPod Classic
After several attempts to transfer some of my concert dvds to my ipod, finally got them working, here is how:
I first update the ffmpeg packages from medibuntu, after this install dvd::rip package from multiverse, once I had dvd::rip opened a new project, and select the option to “Encode DVD on the fly” in order to [...]
Categorized as music/ipod, computer/linux
OpenSuse 10.3
This post is not a review of openSuse 10.3.
I downloaded the DVD for my AMD64 bits computer and it is one of the most buggy installation I’ve tried in the Linux world, I were not able to install it on my computer, all the times I tried it always get stuck installing the grub package, [...]
Categorized as computer/linux