Thoughts on systems, engineering, AI, technology and life.
OMG! A friend sent me these in an email… but there was no attribution. I don't know who created these sequences, but whoever did, thank you! This is so funny! If you know who created these, please leave a comment with the information, so that I can give proper attribution… Depending on how much downloads/bandwidth … Read more
The Texas Independent Game Conference takes place in Austin on July 22nd/23rd and attendees will get the chance to hear from indie veterans willing to share their successes and their experience as well as presentations addressing market trends, distribution, on-line security, development tools, IP protection, structuring a deal and the opportunities in the mobile and … Read more
Just wanted to congratulate the Italians, 2006 FIFA World Cup Champions… Congratulations also to France and Germany… ceo [Flags Credit: CIA World … Read more
Development tools are getting very sophisticated, helping developers generate UI, base code structure, and more. But do you like using code generators? Or do you prefer to crank out all your code manually? I've put together a poll to see if developers are using code generators. You can find the poll by going to my … Read more
A smart move by Research in Motion to serve small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) by hosting the BlackBerry Enterprise Server. See their Press Release. ceo
I spent the last 2 days attending the No Fluff Just Stuff Symposium here in Austin. I had a great time. Yesterday I spent the whole day listening to Dave Thomas, author of various Ruby and Rails books. Good content and presentation by Dave. While I had read about Ruby and Rails in the past, … Read more
This week's Carnival of the Mobilists is hosted by Xen at the Xelluar Identity blog – go check it out. Xen has done a great job hosting this week's Carnival… Visit the Carnival to read this week’s best writing pieces about mobile from mobility bloggers around the blogosphere. Click on Carnival of the Mobilists button … Read more
If it is not too much to ask, please re-subscribe to my feed using the following URL (feedburner): http://feeds.feedburner.com/CEnriqueOrtizWeblog I debated a lot if I should depend on an external web tool for this – see Should SLAs be extended to Web 2.0? But after reading Xen's blog on consolidating feed URLs, I've decided to … Read more
A very good post by Tom Landspurg on (mobile) widgets. See his post What is a (mobile) Widget. Tom gets it right… on the definition, the concepts and challenges behind widgets. I'm looking forward to see a kick ass widget engine for mobile – and I say, Tom should build one — who better to … Read more
STS-121 has cleared the launch-pad, and the mission has begun. A perfect blast-off, on a perfect Fourth of July – this is the first Space Shuttle launch on Independence Day, in the history of the program… If you like to follow the STS-121 launch and mission, visit the STS-121 Discovery page. It is pretty awesome … Read more