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512 posts total

2019
November
Four Horsemen of the Python Apocalypse (2019-11-14)
Bulk Queries in MySQL vs PostgreSQL (2019-11-12)
Course Review: 300+ Phrasal Verbs (Udemy) (2019-11-04)
October
Always send emails asynchronously (2019-10-21)
Course Review: American English Pronunciation (Udemy) (2019-10-12)
September
How different opensource storage systems replicate data (2019-09-24)
Course Review: Building Your English Brain (Udemy) (2019-09-21)
Book Review: Two Scoops of Django 1.11 (2019-09-02)
August
Self-Modifying code and avoiding conditionals (2019-08-24)
Book Review: The subtle art of not giving a f*ck (2019-08-20)
Book Review: How Ideas Spread (2019-08-18)
On measuring and adding complexity (2019-08-12)
July
Course Review: English Fluency Master (Udemy) (2019-07-31)
Book Review: Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World (2019-07-05)
Book Review: Whatever you think, think the opposite (2019-07-01)
June
Book Review: It's Not How Good You Are. It's How Good You Want To Be (2019-06-30)
Course Review: The Complete Splunk Beginner Course (Udemy) (2019-06-29)
Course Review: Perfect English Pronunciation: British English (Udemy) (2019-06-24)
When to Feature Flag new code (2019-06-23)
Micro-Frontends (and self-contained systems) (2019-06-23)
Book Review: How to win friends and influence people (2019-06-17)
May
Hard to test scenarios (2019-05-26)
The state of PC gaming in 2019 (2019-05-26)
Naming bugs for fun (2019-05-19)
Course Review: English Speaking Patterns Mastery (Udemy) (2019-05-04)
April
Course Review: English Idioms Launch (Udemy) (2019-04-08)
Work life hacks: Noise-free Gmail and muting Slack (2019-04-03)
March
My latest side project: Finished Games (2019-03-16)
Course Review: Business English Vocabulary (Udemy) (2019-03-10)
Course Review: Vagrant Quick Start (Udemy) (2019-03-03)
February
Migrated to VS Code and so happy (2019-02-21)
January
Course Review: AWS Certified Developer Associate (Udemy) (2019-01-29)
Course Review: English Vocabulary Launch (Udemy) (2019-01-29)
Course Review: Communication Fundamentals (Udemy) (2019-01-29)
Double-Linked List Python implementation (2019-01-17)
Speeding up my websites for fun (2019-01-03)
2018
December
Book Review: Game Engine Black Book: DOOM (2018-12-31)
2018 Recap (2018-12-23)
Course Review: Master English (Udemy) (2018-12-05)
November
Course Review: Webpack 2: The Complete Developer's Guide (Udemy) (2018-11-18)
Course Review: Learn Redux (Wes Bos) (2018-11-18)
Course Review: React for Beginners (Wes Bos) (2018-11-18)
My Building Autonomous Agents With gym-retro talk (2018-11-06)
October
Course Review: English Grammar Launch Advanced (Udemy) (2018-10-17)
September
Book Review: Disrupted (2018-09-24)
Course Review: English Grammar Launch (Udemy) (2018-09-19)
August
Course Review: Apache Kafka Series - Kafka Streams for Data Processing (Udemy) (2018-08-22)
Course Review: Apache Kafka Series - Kafka Connect Hands-on Learning (Udemy) (2018-08-21)
Course Review: Master 320 Common English Phrases (Udemy) (2018-08-19)
Course Review: Apache Kafka Series - Learn Apache Kafka for Beginners (Udemy) (2018-08-18)
Course Review: Master 120 common phrasal verbs (Udemy) (2018-08-12)
July
Course Review: Adam Grant on Developing Original Ideas (Udemy) (2018-07-28)
Mutan Zone sprite exporter WIP (2018-07-19)
Opera Soft's PIC to PNG exporter (2018-07-15)
June
MVP: Minimum Viable Product (2018-06-23)
Course Review: Master The English Verb Tenses (Udemy) (2018-06-11)
Build a Multi-Arcade with a Raspberry Pi 3 and RetroPie (2018-06-02)
Course Review: Essential Business English (Udemy) (2018-06-02)
April
Alternatives to Google Services (2018-04-16)
Course Review: GCP Cloud Architect (Udemy) (2018-04-07)
Information regarding GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) (2018-04-04)
Book Review: The One Thing (2018-04-03)
March
Talk: Python static typing with MyPy (2018-03-23)
February
Rate limits with Python (2018-02-01)
January
Migration of ticketea.com website to Python 3 (2018-01-12)
Newsletters I read (2018-01-03)
2017
December
2017 Recap (2017-12-17)
Recommended Articles - 2017/12/15 (2017-12-15)
November
JSON-schema for REST API tests (2017-11-14)
Recommended Articles - 2017/11/10 (2017-11-10)
October
About overwork (2017-10-17)
Recommended Articles - 2017/10/14 (2017-10-14)
September
Book Review: Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D (2017-09-19)
Regarding Technical Code Tests (2017-09-11)
Recommended Articles - 2017/09/05 (2017-09-05)
August
Book Review: Writing Idiomatic Python (2017-08-01)
July
Recommended Articles - 2017/07/25 (2017-07-25)
Emulators for Ubuntu Linux (2017-07-24)
June
On Python 3, Flake8 and mypy (2017-06-20)
Recommended Articles - 2017/06/12 (2017-06-12)
May
Recommended Articles - 2017/05/19 (2017-05-19)
Encoding JPGs with Google's Guetzli (2017-05-17)
April
Book Review: Thinking Fast and Slow (2017-04-29)
On Elastic Beanstalk, Docker and CircleCI (2017-04-27)
Pelican Publisher Script (2017-04-04)
Recommended Articles - 2017/04/01 (2017-04-01)
March
Recommended Articles - 2017/03/05 (2017-03-05)
February
Hacking Flash Games Example: Clicker Heroes (2017-02-06)
January
Recommended Articles - 2017/01/29 (2017-01-29)
Customizing Pelican archives page (2017-01-28)
5 Advices for job seekers (2017-01-21)
Recommended Articles - 2017/01/08 (2017-01-08)
2016
December
Basic Nginx snippets (2016-12-30)
Book Review: Can holding a fart kill you? (2016-12-28)
Recommended Articles - 2016/12/21 (2016-12-21)
Pet project: Shopping Lists published (2016-12-11)
Software Developer Position for TheMotion (2016-12-06)
November
Book Review: Console Wars (2016-11-26)
Recommended Articles - 2016/11/19 (2016-11-19)
Book Review: Making games with Phaser: Color Zap (2016-11-13)
October
Ten years since he passed away (2016-10-14)
Recommended Articles - 2016/10/13 (2016-10-13)
September
Recommended Articles - 2016/09/25 (2016-09-25)
August
Carpe Diem (2016-08-24)
July
Book Review: Managing Humans (2016-07-30)
Bootstrapping database creation for a microservice in a container (2016-07-12)
Book Review: Commodore AMIGA A visual compendium (2016-07-02)
June
UGE - Universal Game Editor + Stonekeep module (2016-06-25)
Book Review: Ready Player One (2016-06-25)
Free password management solution: KeePass (2016-06-19)
May
Book Review: Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (2016-05-25)
Hiding your Linkedin connections list (2016-05-12)
Good lessons learned from past jobs (2016-05-05)
Book Review: Speccy Nation (2016-05-02)
March
Migrating from BlogEngine.NET to Pelican (2016-03-16)
Book Review: Building Microservices (2016-03-04)
KISS (2016-03-01)
February
Having a good, disposable devbox (2016-02-14)
Book Review: Code - The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software (2016-02-01)
January
A few articles and tools about ZX Spectrum programming (2016-01-25)
Code and style checks for Python at Sublime Text (2016-01-01)
2015
December
UEFI, NVMe and being stubborn (2015-12-15)
November
Does the term adultescent even make sense (regarding videogames)? (2015-11-29)
Fixing Windows Update service registration missing or corrupt (2015-11-06)
October
Setting up a Ubuntu VirtualBox Virtual Machine (2015-10-21)
September
Code and style checks for Ruby at Sublime Text (2015-09-19)
Game engine recreations for classic PC games I like (2015-09-12)
August
Stopping Windows 10 privacy bleeding (2015-08-23)
Taking care of my body when working remotely (2015-08-01)
July
Making Rails CookieStore more secure and sessions expirable (2015-07-07)
June
My dislike for open office spaces (2015-06-27)
May
Book Review: The LEGO Mindstorms EV3 Discovery Book (2015-05-07)
April
Fight about the ethics, not about the tools (2015-04-05)
March
Freakend 2015 and my Gameboy Powerpoint-like ROM (2015-03-09)
Book Review: Teach yourself visually Search Engine Optimization (2015-03-01)
February
Book Review: Learning LEGO Mindstorms EV3 (2015-02-05)
Book Review: Computer Networking - A Top-Down Approach (2015-02-02)
January
Book Review: HTML5 Game Development Hotshot (2015-01-30)
Protecting your online privacy (2015-01-20)
Book Review: The making of Prince of Persia (2015-01-03)
2014
December
Proposals for 2015 (2014-12-27)
You don't always need jQuery (2014-12-07)
November
Book Review: One Click: Jeff Bezos and the rise of Amazon.com (2014-11-29)
Book Review: Lego Mindstorms EV3 Essentials (2014-11-04)
October
On Consumerism (2014-10-05)
September
OpenSSL certificate verify failed on Ruby & Windows (2014-09-25)
Migration to IIS 8.0 and the new blog(s) (2014-09-02)
August
Book Review: Obsequium (2014-08-09)
July
Book Review: Ocho Quilates (La edad de Oro del software español) (2014-07-30)
Non-trivial Rails 3.x routing (2014-07-23)
Book Review: The Art of LEGO Design (2014-07-20)
12 years working (2014-07-10)
June
Small example with Python (2014-06-21)
May
Don't load if you can stream (2014-05-14)
Book Review: Stay awhile and Listen (2014-05-05)
Easy URL Rewritting using ASP.NET 4.0 (2014-05-04)
April
PostgreSQL - PostGIS compatibility issues (2014-04-03)
March
PowerShell-ing (2014-03-29)
SQL LIMIT in UPDATE when the RDBMS doesn't allows it (2014-03-20)
February
If you can't win, fail fast (2014-02-28)
A small LEGO Mindstorms EV3 Node.js library (2014-02-14)
January
Book Review: Beginning Databases with PostgreSQL: From Novice to Professional (2014-01-12)
2013
December
2013 Retrospective (2013-12-22)
November
Setup a basic node.js Windows development environment (2013-11-25)
October
Optimizing an indoor routing A* (2013-10-24)
Book Review: Developing Web Applications with Oracle ADF Essentials (2013-10-13)
September
Learning, 12 years later (2013-09-19)
Review: CodeLobster PHP Edition (2013-09-14)
August
A documentary about privacy that you should watch (2013-08-31)
Toying with Javascript modules (2013-08-18)
When did we stopped dreaming? (2013-08-04)
July
Summer time (2013-07-21)
June
Book Review: Hands-on Testing with PHPUnit How-to (2013-06-24)
You help PRISM work better by being so social (2013-06-16)
My last two crazy months (2013-06-01)
April
ZeptoJS: Nice and fast (2013-04-07)
March
Database Ticket Servers (2013-03-24)
Book Review: The One Minute Manager (2013-03-21)
Book Review: Building Web Applications with SVG (2013-03-09)
February
Foolish again (2013-02-05)
January
Removing DRM from Amazon Kindle and Apple books (2013-01-11)
Of broken windows and IDEs (2013-01-03)
2012
December
The fastest way to load an image... (2012-12-18)
Book Review: PHP Application Development with Netbeans (2012-12-02)
November
Yahoo Pipes (2012-11-11)
October
melonJS HTML5 game engine (2012-10-28)
Barcode Wars: Small Javascript game (2012-10-03)
September
How I stopped wasting time using Twitter (2012-09-22)
August
Dark color schemes in IDEs (2012-08-25)
Review: Devhand SketchIt (2012-08-05)
July
Is your work interesting enough? (2012-07-31)
June
Use Youtube's iframe to not need Flash (2012-06-30)
Book Review: Building Scalable Websites (2012-06-05)
May
The effects of choosing a cheaper toilet paper (2012-05-12)
April
Another event plus mini-encoder tool (2012-04-22)
March
CodeMotion 2012 ES Talk (2012-03-25)
Software versioning notations (2012-03-11)
February
Debugging with Google Chrome basics (2012-02-09)
Sharing buttons without Javascript (2012-02-01)
January
Book Review: Don't make me think (2012-01-15)
Building a Wordpress 3 Mobilizer plugin (2012-01-04)
2011
December
Book Review: The Art of Readable Code (2011-12-26)
Talks given, old source codes, links... Getting up to date (2011-12-07)
Hacking iPhone game savegames: Game Dev Story (2011-12-02)
November
Using Google Analytics for Mobile and fixing a lang not set problem (2011-11-06)
Building a micro-stats logger in PHP (2011-11-03)
September
Windows 8 might consume less RAM, but faking data is BAD (2011-09-13)
Hardening and speeding up a Wordpress blog (2011-09-02)
August
Book Review: ASP.NET 4 Social Networking (2011-08-23)
20 Indie games that will grant you tons of entertainment (2011-08-07)
July
Don't test only with superusers (2011-07-17)
June
Building a simple Cache system for Wordpress 3.0 (2011-06-25)
Reasoning behind Twitter's new spammy notifications (2011-06-13)
May
Build internal tools that are easy and safe to use (2011-05-29)
Book Review: Sphinx Search – Beginner's Guide (2011-05-08)
April
My personal Source Code Control evolution (2011-04-18)
Distributed knowledge vs Shared Knowledge (2011-04-05)
March
C# String array + File.WriteAllLines vs StringBuilder + File.WriteAllText (2011-03-14)
MindCamp 3.0 and Lightweight Wordpress Cache component (2011-03-10)
February
Book Review: PHP 5 Social Networking (2011-02-27)
Book Review: Drive: The Surprising truth about what motivates us (2011-02-23)
Changed hosting + IIS 7.0 breaking changes (2011-02-04)
January
Detection of Internet Explorer 8 emulation mode via Javascript (2011-01-26)
When game glitches were fun (2011-01-18)
Book Review: TortoiseSVN 1.7 Beginner's Guide (2011-01-16)
Stay away from old PHP Software (2011-01-09)
2010
December
year2010.End(); year2011.Start(); (2010-12-31)
Steam store, or how Valve has to improve building websites (2010-12-20)
Patch files with TortoiseSVN (2010-12-18)
November
The Early Adopter Disease (2010-11-28)
Book Review: Getting Real (2010-11-13)
October
Kindle 3: My first impressions (and some tips) (2010-10-17)
Cydia apps = Android apps = caution (2010-10-16)
Kartones.Net Internet Explorer 9 Jump List (2010-10-05)
September
When all you've got is PHP everything is a script (2010-09-29)
Quiet rivers run deep (2010-09-12)
August
Feedback: So important, and yet so unwanted (2010-08-29)
Magic:TG Scrum estimation deck (2010-08-18)
Kartones.Net now featuring Twitter OAuth integration for bloggers (2010-08-08)
Make your product do one thing well instead of a hundred poorly [UPDATED] (2010-08-01)
July
Book Review: The Mythical Man-Month (2010-07-05)
June
PHP is_int() and is_numeric() (2010-06-20)
AJAX in ASP.NET using only HttpHandlers and Javascript (2010-06-07)
May
PHP is_array() and array_flip() (2010-05-23)
Obfuscation is not security (2010-05-09)
April
Setting up a Firefox development profile (2010-04-29)
Offtopic: Visit to Tuenti's datacenter (2010-04-18)
Mobile devices detection using the User Agent (2010-04-13)
Review: NDepend 3.0 (2010-04-05)
March
5 Things that you should do in a code test (2010-03-29)
Book Review: PHP Objects, Patterns, and Practice (2010-03-17)
SQL Server 2008: The server principal is not able to access the database under the current security context (2010-03-09)
Back from the MindCamp 2.0 (2010-03-03)
February
Using derivated Exception classes for better error handling (2010-02-23)
January
Top 5 Microsoft FAILs (2010-01-31)
POST from http to https: The hidden security (2010-01-20)
Is Android becoming the new J2ME? (2010-01-12)
Book Review: Masters of Doom (2010-01-05)
2009
December
The ultimate clean desktop, Windows 7 edition (2009-12-20)
Obtaining Gravatar images (2009-12-13)
Incoming improvements to Kartones.Net (2009-12-07)
November
Avoiding the break statement (2009-11-25)
The importance of having strong and varied passwords (2009-11-15)
Think Generic (2009-11-07)
October
Two VirtualBox tricks (2009-10-28)
Building a very basic Google Wave extension (2009-10-20)
ASP.NET: Flushing files to browser with Response.AddHeader() (2009-10-18)
5 Technological gurus I admire (2009-10-12)
Kartones.Net CS2007 Addon 1.4, Related Posts and a bit of caching (2009-10-04)
September
ASP.NET: Split AppSettings and ConnectionStrings to separate files (2009-09-28)
Working with PHP, six months later (2009-09-22)
Transitioning from a synchronous model to an asynchronous one? (2009-09-07)
August
Book Review: Design Patters (Gang of Four) (2009-08-31)
Hack your Windows Vista 32 bits to address 4GB or more of RAM (2009-08-23)
Windows 7: Now we're talking (2009-08-16)
KartonesNet CS2007 Addon Pack 1.3.3 (2009-08-09)
Resource exhaustion and other uncommon testing scenarios (2009-08-04)
Your worst enemy: Ignorance (2009-08-01)
July
The Windows 7 Browserless Fear campaign [UPDATED] (2009-07-26)
Kartones.Net CS2007 Addon Pack 1.3.2: Lightweight + Visual Tags (2009-07-12)
How we Europeans get cheated with videogame prices (2009-07-11)
Five basic concepts of scalability (2009-07-05)
June
Kartones.Net CS2007 Addon Pack 1.3.1 Released (2009-06-22)
Windows Mobile and iPhone thoughts (2009-06-18)
Introducing KartonesNet.APIs.GoogleAnalyticsAPI (2009-06-08)
KartonesNet CS2007 Addon Pack 1.2.1 (2009-06-06)
Where most blogs fail: Long lifespan (2009-06-06)
May
Review: PasswordsPro (2009-05-31)
Tip: Increase user process address space to 3GB (and other misc. tweaks) (2009-05-26)
Kartones.Net: Server-side CAPTCHA for Community Server 2007 (2009-05-19)
Community Server 2007: Building a Visits counter control (2009-05-13)
Review: FlairBuilder (2009-05-10)
Arrays in PHP, or to be precise, Collections in PHP (2009-05-03)
April
Good AI, but always Fun AI (2009-04-26)
Tip: Logging to a file results of a MSI installation (2009-04-18)
Announcing the beta version of m.kartones.net ! (2009-04-10)
Zero-cost PHP debugging and testing environment (2009-04-05)
March
The problem of untyped languages: PHP empty() function (2009-03-30)
Kartones.Net: IE8 Web Slice of latest posts (2009-03-24)
Kartones.Net: Search engine working on IE8 and Chrome! (2009-03-23)
Kartones.Net: Speed improvements on the site (2009-03-18)
Tip: Modify Windows Vista network connections priorities (2009-03-14)
A simple interface based versioning of objects (2009-03-07)
Programming languages are tools (2009-03-01)
February
Why not using a Wiki for project management? (2009-02-23)
Installing Debian 5.0 in Virtual PC 2007 (2009-02-18)
Kartones.Net: Main site RSS feed now on feedburner (2009-02-17)
You know something is not well... (2009-02-13)
Learning PHP + a small WIP PHP5 Manual (2009-02-09)
I'm getting fired (but there's a catch) (2009-02-06)
January
Community Server 2007: Extend user profile to add Twitter account and auto-tweet (2009-01-29)
Community Server 2007: Correct sorting of Files TreeView (2009-01-28)
Kartones.Net: Added Twitter posting for the bloggers (2009-01-27)
Tips for an interview (both sides) (2009-01-27)
Oxite: Good, but not clean (2009-01-21)
Advantages of not building from scratch (2009-01-16)
5 unusual games to make you think (2009-01-13)
Building your own feedburner stats with the ASP.NET Charting control (2009-01-05)
Catching all Twitter replies to you, even if you do not follow the sender (2009-01-02)
Kartones.Net: Small UX improvement for the main post list (2009-01-02)
2008
December
Statistics of Kartones.Net for the year 2008 (2008-12-31)
Tip: Add Command Prompt Here in context menu to Windows 2003 [UPDATED] (2008-12-29)
The problem of not listening to others (2008-12-09)
Dictionaries and GetHashCode() (2008-12-02)
November
Tunning ASP.NET applications performance (2008-11-20)
Book Review: The Pragmatic Programmer (2008-11-15)
Corporate blogging (2008-11-07)
October
Why innovate if you can imitate? [UPDATED] (2008-10-30)
Excel and CSV files II (2008-10-26)
Offtopic: Workplace setup (2008-10-21)
KartonesNet CS2007 Addon Pack 1.1.1 (2008-10-19)
Excel and CSV files (2008-10-18)
Last posts words tag cloud (2008-10-13)
Getting started with ASP.NET MVC and LINQ (2008-10-12)
Hacks: Tweak Firefox User Agent string [UPDATED] (2008-10-08)
False technical people and Peter Principle (2008-10-05)
September
Review: NDepend (2008-09-27)
Offtopic: Cheat Engine (2008-09-22)
Auto-Launch Visual Studio Web Server when running tests (2008-09-19)
Book Review: Coder To Developer (2008-09-10)
Windows Live Agents: Context Zones (2008-09-01)
August
Sometimes there is a shorter solution (2008-08-26)
Windows Live Agents Testing: Improving the Framework (2008-08-21)
Book Review: .NET XML Web Services - Step by Step (2008-08-17)
Common pitfalls using Scrum methodology (2008-08-11)
Review: Balsamic Mockups (2008-08-04)
July
API Documentation made easy (2008-07-30)
Creating custom search providers for Firefox and IE7 (2008-07-25)
Prototyping GUIs with Powerpoint (2008-07-15)
Tides of change (2008-07-02)
June
My list of free developer tools (2008-06-26)
Updated to Firefox 3 (2008-06-21)
Windows Live Agents: Subpatterns as menu responses (2008-06-10)
May
Windows Live Agents: SDK 5.0 finally here!!! (2008-05-28)
IIRF: A decent URL rewriter ISAPI filter (2008-05-27)
Windows Live Agents Testing: Building the Framework (2008-05-24)
Windows Live Agents Testing: Introduction (2008-05-11)
April
Amazing (and weird) game engines plus POVRay (2008-04-21)
Windows Live Agents: Non-UTF8 encodings (2008-04-16)
Windows Live Agents: XML Normalization II (2008-04-02)
March
Windows Live Agents: XML Normalization (2008-03-24)
Windows Live Agents: Matching international characters in XMLs (2008-03-10)
Windows Live Agents: iZ v1.1 - Taking advantage of user feedback (2008-03-01)
February
Windows Live Agents: iZ, our first WLA (2008-02-27)
Windows Live Agents: Anything patterns II (2008-02-25)
Doing things the right way == impossible? (2008-02-20)
KartonesNet CS2007 Addon Pack: Twitter AutoPosting CS Module (2008-02-17)
Windows Live Agents: Anything patterns (2008-02-17)
Messenger instant chat HTML tags (2008-02-12)
Windows Live Agents: SCount Function (Safe Count) (2008-02-09)
Getting up with XNA GS 2.0 (2008-02-03)
New Kartones.Net feature: Auto-posting to Twitter (2008-02-01)
January
Windows Live &; MSN Creative Acceptance Policy Guide (2008-01-29)
Windows Live Agents: Default topics & capabilities (2008-01-28)
Music as a key component for videogames (2008-01-26)
Incoming events (2008-01-22)
KB946932: Disabling UAC Prompt for certain apps. Not that useful... (2008-01-20)
Book Review: Blog Profits Blueprint (2008-01-19)
Cool App: Last.fm Mobile (2008-01-14)
Windows Live Agents: Structuring and Refactoring the code (2008-01-10)
Dual monitor: Fantastic Improvement (2008-01-09)
Embedded Google Documents Presentations module for Community Server 2007 (2008-01-07)
Text Mode Demos: Amazing! (2008-01-07)
Dark color themes support on Windows (2008-01-03)
2007
December
Recapitulation of 2007 (2007-12-30)
Building a Windows Live Agent: First steps (2007-12-27)
Reading pending RSS feeds... Game development related (2007-12-24)
Windows Live Agents: Reading XML element attributes (2007-12-16)
Configure Exchange RPC over HTTP (2007-12-07)
November
Lego Mindstorms NXT: Control your robot via Wiimote (2007-11-30)
Fighting with Windows XP (2007-11-11)
Messenger Presence API Exposed }:) (2007-11-07)
Protecting from SQL Injection in ASP.NET (2007-11-06)
Giant Donkey Kong Level (2007-11-04)
October
Tweaking the Crysis SinglePlayer PC demo (2007-10-30)
Windows Live Agents: Structuring data into n-tiers (2007-10-29)
Google Picasa API: No way to get an image direct URL? (2007-10-28)
Cloning the Twitter badge with Javascript & new subdomain (2007-10-27)
Enjoying your work (and teamwork) (2007-10-25)
Evergrowing unneeded software features (2007-10-20)
Meeting and chat with Angus Logan [UPDATED] (2007-10-18)
Saturday morning reading: Security (2007-10-06)
WLA: Detect if user can't launch an Activity (2007-10-02)
September
Metroid remake with voxel technology (2007-09-30)
Designing a game: My first steps (2007-09-29)
Why are videogames so short now? (2007-09-23)
WLA: Random answers loaded from an XML file (2007-09-20)
5 Tips for increasing your game player base and fidelity (2007-09-18)
WLA: Implement a Log for your agent (2007-09-16)
New Topic: Windows Live Agents (2007-09-10)
Lego Mindstorms NXT: NXT Remote for PocketPC (2007-09-03)
Adapting a boardgame to a Online Multiplayer Game (2007-09-02)
August
To mock or not to mock, that is the question (2007-08-29)
Wired article on Halo 3 (2007-08-27)
.NET Compact Framework: GMail Contacts Importer (2007-08-25)
Optimizing the time using your computer (2007-08-20)
New Book Review: Videogame Marketing and PR (2007-08-19)
Double Dispatch in JADE 2.0 (2007-08-18)
Vista vs XP security (for laptops) SANS Paper (2007-08-15)
Upgrading my home machine network (2007-08-07)
KartonesNet CS2007 Addon Pack v1.2.0 (2007-08-05)
KartonesNet CS2007 Addon Pack v1.1.0 (2007-08-05)
July
New book review: Writing Secure code for Windows Vista (2007-07-22)
We were short for time and there were other interesting features to consider (2007-07-16)
Offtopic: Back from Germany, plus a weekend using Linux (2007-07-15)
June
Book Review: The Design of Everyday Things (2007-06-19)
Community Server 2007: KartonesNet CS2007 Addon Pack 1.0 (2007-06-12)
Google Gears: A bit unsafe? (2007-06-10)
ExitWindowsEx not working with Windows XP if computer is locked (2007-06-06)
Community Server 2007: Creating Kartones.Net custom spam rules (2007-06-04)
Preventing spam with Community Server 2007 (2007-06-03)
XNA Particle System sources uploaded (2007-06-01)
May
Offtopic: Windows Boot screens (2007-05-27)
Using WiX (Windows Installer XML) (2007-05-27)
Migrating Kartones.Net to Community Server 2007 (2007-05-24)
Playing Videogames is like... (2007-05-20)
Quick tips for developing under Windows Vista (2007-05-16)
5 Things we can learn as developers from videogames (2007-05-15)
Developing an XNA Particle System (2007-05-11)
NUnit 2.4.1 & Watin 1.1.0 (2007-05-05)
WinSxS under XP: WTF?! (2007-05-03)
April
Vista & Windows Side by Side Assemblies (2007-04-30)
Social networks dangers (2007-04-30)
Humour: Rayman Ads (2007-04-27)
New Section: Book reviews (2007-04-24)
Selecting the Nth row from a SQL table (2007-04-23)
VS2005 Unit Tests and copying files (2007-04-21)
Using Windows Live Writer with Kartones.Net (Community Server 2.1) (2007-04-13)
Pixel Drawing (2007-04-05)
March
Flash Player under Windows Vista and IE7 not working (2007-03-28)
Loading resources from an external assembly (2007-03-24)
An excellent article about Windows Vista (2007-03-24)
Postmortem: LAME MP3 Encoder GUI (2007-03-13)
Doing some PR about Jade (2007-03-13)
GDC2007: Fantastic XNA news! (2007-03-08)
Firekeeper: A browser IDS/IPS for Firefox (2007-03-07)
Puzzles (2007-03-07)
Primate Programming (2007-03-06)
February
Auto-attach to process aspnet_wp.exe on machine xxxxxxx failed. Error code 0x8013134b. (2007-02-28)
Slides and sources of my Managed DirectX and XNA speeches uploaded (2007-02-28)
ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 RTM Bug (2007-02-26)
XNA: Skeletal Bone Animation & Skinning with Collada models article (2007-02-26)
3D Terrain Generator (2007-02-25)
Linux for a dummie: First Steps (2007-02-21)
NVidia releases new compiler and OpenGL specifications (2007-02-19)
The Vista gaming experience (2007-02-14)
MS Patterns & Practices Performance Testing Guidance released (2007-02-13)
Tools: SnippetCompiler (2007-02-11)
An interesting article about Windows Vista security model (2007-02-11)
Commercial game engines (2007-02-11)
Priceless Consulting (2007-02-01)
January
New Cryptographic Algorithms in Visual Studio Orcas (2007-01-26)
Gaming development related news (2007-01-16)
See ya later, Vista (2007-01-04)
2006
December
Top 5 2006 used freeware (2006-12-20)
XNA Game Studio Express 1.0 final released (2006-12-11)
TDD and Testing (2006-12-03)
October
Postmortem: Madrid CodeCamp 2006 (2006-10-29)
DirectX SDK October 2006 Available (2006-10-12)
Back at Madrid CodeCamp 2006 (2006-10-11)
September
Some Windows Mobile 5.0 resources, articles and webcasts (2006-09-29)
Bought an XBox 360 (2006-09-23)
Windows Vista Pre-RC1 under MS Virtual PC 2004 SP1 (2006-09-04)
Really new user interfaces (2006-09-03)
August
Freeware and opensource classic remakes (2006-08-28)
July
VB.NET sucks! (2006-07-31)
June
BumpTop: A realistic 3D desktop (2006-06-26)
How to tune-up your VM (2006-06-14)
Switch from RSS Bandit to Google Reader complete! (2006-06-12)
3D Engines: OgreDotNet (2006-06-10)
May
Small Blogger hack: Custom search (2006-05-31)
ASP.NET & IIS bad things (2006-05-08)
More 3D Engines (2006-05-03)
April
Online Reference sheets for HTML, JS and more (2006-04-23)
Coolest Firefox Extensions (2006-04-18)
OS Processes monitoring (2006-04-18)
Busy Busy (2006-04-15)
March
Microsoft Document Explorer in VS2005 (2006-03-10)
February
Game Dev. with Perl and SDL (2006-02-15)
More info about PS3 (2006-02-13)
TRIGLAV, a Javascript RPG game (2006-02-03)
January
MAD.NUG Managed DirectX Speech Slides and Demo (2006-01-20)
It all started... (2006-01-07)
2005
June
Mini-list of continuous integration tools (2005-06-10)
OpenSmtp Console v1.0 (2005-06-08)
NCover Template for CruiseControl.NET (2005-06-03)
May
Subversion: Almost a definitive solution (2005-05-24)
Visio 2003 for GUI prototyping (2005-05-13)
February
.NET VNC Viewer for PocketPC (2005-02-05)
2004
December
Funny and curious story (2004-12-22)
ASM to IL compiler (2004-12-10)
Jamagic: A good idea that faded away (2004-12-02)