I’m using Google Chrome on my dear netbook, running Ubuntu 10.04. Since yesterday after an abnormal shutdown, I was getting the message “Your profile could not be opened correctly” yada yada. I tried some rm – cp stuff, suggested elsewhere, but it didn’t work. In the end, I opened ~/.config/google-chrome/Default/ and I deleted every file [...]

After upgrading to the latest (5.6.6 Unicode) version of Notepad++, I had several problems (read: crashes). After playing around with the plugins, I noticed that the problem was with one of my (favorite) plugins: Function List. Fortunately, thanks to Ruslan’s blog I found the solution: download a copy from here.

Days of Wonder, my favorite board games publisher, is up to a new suprise. The game “Mystery Express” was announced a few minutes ago, sadly without too many details. According to the website, the game is out in March and it will be available in English, French and German. From the publisher’s blog we read [...]

I’m not really fond of Opera’s translation menu; maybe it’s because it only offers a handful of languages (and I have some Finnish, Danish, Swedish and other -ishes friends on Facebook). Hopefully Opera’s known power user, Tamil, had a solution for a similar task, which I changed a bit: Go to Tools -> Preferences -> [...]

A group of journalists, bloggers, professionals and creators want to express their firm opposition to the inclusion in a Draft Law of some changes to Spanish laws restricting the freedoms of expression, information and access to culture on the Internet. Read the declaration here.

I have just added a new page, which includes my first wave! I’m eager to see how this works. For this, I used wavr

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One thousand spam blocked….. I love Akismet. Bring it on, punk.

The default XML serialization adds the xml header and a couple of namespace definitions – elements which aren’t always welcome. Here’s how to control the XML source. Let’s start with a simple class called ‘Book’: Public Class Book Public Title As String = String.Empty Public Sub New() End Sub Public Sub New(ByVal title As String) [...]

I’ve got a couple of messages from [apparently] junior programmers regarding my previous post, so I decided to go back and explain some of the magic that’s happening every day inside Cake applications. As you know (or should have known) Cake does a lot of magic behind the scenes, as long as we’re following some [...]