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Software Development Blog by David Martinez

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   Feb 25

Daily Del.icio.us bookmarks

I have many computers, so using Del.icio.us has helped me a lot. Recently I found some intructions on how to post your daily links on your blog. So that’s what I’m doing. Nightly, a post wll show up here with what I’ve linked to. I figured it would make a nice addition. UPDATE: As it [...]

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   Feb 08

Background on Mexico City

A subject near to my heart today crossed Digg today – some excellent aerial shots of Mexico City taken by Oscar Ruiz, a helicopter pilot. I decided to open this post to add a little bit of filler information and links, as I noticed in the comments a lot of people don’t know a lot [...]

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   Jan 27

Next Project – Wire the house with ethernet

I want to wire my house with ethernet (Tivo and Xbox on wireless are OK but not great), but I want to learn how to do it myself. Here are some notes and links. How to make your own Ethernet patch cord – This one describes the wiring. And here’s another wiring tutorial. And another. [...]

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   Jan 25

Expect More. Give More

This is a jewel of a comment.from Marc McNeil: Why should you be able to go home and see your 13 year old son playing with a Sony PSP, with awesome graphics, great design and compelling experience, but when you get to work the brand new Enterprise Application looks like it was designed by amateurs, [...]

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   Jan 19

VMWare Community Virtual Machines

If you ever wanted to try out Linux but didn’t want to go through the hassle of installing and configuring it (and you’re on broadband), this is a great way to do it for free: Community-built virtual machines are built and hosted by individuals in the VMware community. The list of community-built virtual machines contains [...]

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   Jan 17

WikiHow: How to exercise an open mind

One hour of increased brain activity via thinking a lot or experiencing new stimuli can make you smarter, more energetic, more creative, and more sociable. How to Exercise an Open Mind – WikiHow technorati tags: geek, thinking, puzzles

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   Dec 27

Air Travel Sucks!

Air travel is stupid.

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   Dec 20

DeveloperWorks: Automate acceptance tests with Selenium

In this article, the author shows architects, developers, and testers how to use the Selenium testing tools to automate acceptance tests; automating the tests saves times and helps eliminate tester mistakes. You also are provided with an example of how to apply Selenium in a real-world project using Ruby on Rails and Ajax. Automate acceptance [...]

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   Dec 08

Eventful – web 2.0 public calendars

When looking for calendaring software I found this: With Eventful, you can… * Discover interesting events, venues, and calendars * Narrow your search by time, place, keyword, proximity, and other criteria * Create unlimited web calendars, with built-in iCalendar, RSS, and web publishing tools * …and it’s all FREE! Eventful Pretty neat, it supports tags [...]

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   Dec 07

GUI Gallery

I’m a retrocomputing fanatic, and this is pretty neat.Go GEOS and AmigaDOS! On these pages you will find many screen shots of various desktop computer Graphical User Interfaces and operating systems. Many different people have had different ideas of how a GUI should work and these screen shots show many of the more popular ones. [...]

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