Internet Explorer 8 – crash boom bang! -

Yesterday, I installed IE8 (retail version, not beta) in a laptop with the following specs: Dell M1530 3GB Ram Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 The experience was quite horrible, mostly because: Some add-ons (like Skype) seemed to be incompatible with IE8, what made necessary to update...

Charla sobre XNA en SecondNug

La peña de SecondNug me ha invitado a dar una charla introductoria a XNA el día 21 de Abril. En ella, desarrollaremos un juego completo desde cero: un clon del Arkanoid, tocando temas como gráficos, sonido, input, animación, etc. Como todas las charlas de este grupo, se tratará de un WebCast al...

Jornadas sobre la profesión de Ingeniero. Universidad pública de Navarra

Next wednesday I´ll be one of the speakers in the conferences about the Engineering studies and careers hosted by the Universidad Pública de Navarra. ---- El próximo miércoles, seré uno de los ponentes en las jornadas sobre la profesión de Ingeniero de la Universidad pública de Navarra. Aula 4. Edificio el Sario. Pamplona Texto íntegro: http://ecodiario.eleconomista.es/espana/noticias/1099078/03/09/La-Universidad-Publica-de-Navarra-organiza-unas-jornadas-sobre-la-profesion-de-ingeniero.html...

Easily post VisualStudio formatted source code in your blog

I have posted source code many times before, and always crap-looking. Always wanted to have a copy-paste method to quickly copy source code keeping the format used in Visual Studio. I knew there were tools to do that, but always was too lazy to look for one. Today I did it, and the answer is CSAH: CopySourceAsHtml.   It´s a Visual Studio Add-In that offers you a “Copy as HTML” context menu...

The tire size mess

A guy asked me a while ago how to read the tire size codes in a wheel. After explaining him, he complained because his results did not match a measurement made on a real wheel. I´ll try to explain why: 205/55R16. What does this mean? Well, don´t tell me why they did it, but the guys that decided how...

Contribution to SlimDX. UVAtlas wrapper

If you are a .Net developer who wants to deal with 3D Graphics, your best two options are: Go the XNA way Use SlimDX  As all of you probably already know, XNA is a .Net full framework for Game Development. It´s very easy to use, powerful, and cross-platform with the XBox and Zune (too bad no support for Windows Mobile yet). It is great, but in some cases, it has its disadvantages,...