Archive for the ‘General’ Category

[lang_en]Continuing with my disconnection process, I’ll stop writing on this blog. [/lang_en]

Monday, June 30th, 2008

[lang_en]The summer is here and every day it pass I want more and more spend my time being outside (riding my bike, playing football, drinking a beer, being with my girlfriend, etc…)

Thus, and the fact I have near three open projects (on-line and off-line), plus my real work at abiquo, I realized that I can’t and I don’t want to invest more of my time writing.

I will close definitely my blog the next Friday, then, I’ll replace this blog with a page with links to my Web projects and social network profiles.

Nice to meet you here![/lang_en]

[lang_en]Evaluating the Google App Engine service platform to deploy Web applications[/lang_en]

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

[lang_en]A few days ago I’ve decided to give a try to the new Google App Engine (GAE) platform from Google. It’s basically a place where deploy your web application with the main feature of support scalability from moment zero. (like Amazon WS, etc…)

My first impressions of GAE are:

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[lang_en]Documenting projects with Docbook[/lang_en]

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

[lang_en]One of the tasks presents on almost every job and position is to prepare documentation. There are different tools to create good documents, but if you are developer, and you need to create professional documents, then you may fall into two options: LaTeX and DocBook.

I’ll explain to you how to prepare good PDF from DocBook documents in 3 easy steps:
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HOWTO: Creating nice ASCII logos for your command line application

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

I found a simple but powerful tool for linux which allows you to create ASCII art logos for your command line applications.

Its name is figlet, and can be downloaded from your package tool (apt-get, yum, …), at least in almost all the Linux distributions.

To create a new logo you need to invoke (from your shell):

# figlet <TEXT>
# figlet abiquo

You can also specify the alignment of the text, and the font you want to use:

#figlet -c -f script abiquo

-c : Centered
-f : Font

Sample results:

Screenshot figlet