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It’s been a while since the last time I wrote something here. I realize I’ve promised several posts which never got written, such as some experiments with bizarre random number generators, the architecture of the silverlight DynamicDeepZoom app we hacked toghether with Martin for Codecamp 09, and the full code for the silverlight PagingListBox (which … more

For many, programming nowadays means writing some code in an object oriented programming language such as C#, Java or C++ at a lower level. Well, those are the mainstream languages nowadays and the reigning paradigm is the object oriented one. What is a programming paradigm? It’s a philosophical and theoretical framework within which solutions to … more

Many times I have faced problems during my day-to-day tasks. Always, the first attemp to solve them is surfing the web. Sometimes I find help on official sites, sometimes I end up asking a friend, but many times the best help is on some blog round there. Then I thought I could add my little … more

In this post I’ll describe I have been doing for Instedd during the last couple of weeks. In one of the projects we have we need to classify a series of articles depending on the geographical location they are talking about. This process is known as geotagging, and is really important on the biosurveillance areas. … more

Last Monday I had the opportunity to join Brian Cardiff at OneDay Santander to give a conference on ASP.NET and Ajax. OneDay Santander was an event organized by Microsoft Argentina attended by Banco Santander’s IT team. It was a great experience, which let me learn a lot from an outstanding speaker like Brian and be … more

Greetings! I’m starting a new blog to add even more stuff to the already huge blogosphere. If you wonder what this blog will be about, initially it is intended to share programming thoughts, issues and -hopefully- solutions. Since I’m currently working on C# and Java, most of my posts will be related to these languages. … more

I know I promised a mini DEVS model for this post. But I bumped into this interesting thing and I wanted to share it. We are currently working on a JSF web application which has a GWT component in it. To debug the app, we have to compile the GWT component and put it inside … more

Just to gather new tools to help me in my M. Sc. thesis, I’m taking a course on Discrete Event Simulation. This course in fact is not as general as its name may suggest. It focuses mainly on modelling with a formalism called DEVS (which stands for Discrete Event System Specification), created by Bernard Zeigler. … more

Firefox has many settings that are not available through the standard “Preferences” dialog. However these can be configured navigating to the “about:config” address. In that list we can find two useful options related to text selection, that has different default values depending on the platform (Windows, Linux, Mac). The first option “layout.word_select.stop_at_punctuation” controls whether the … more