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 [...]

For those of you (like myself) who have been hiding under your shell, there’s a whole world of games out there, away from the publicity lights. It’s the “Indie” (independent) scene, where small groups of people create wonderful games. I was only aware of such groups thanks to Uplink, a hacker simulation game from Introversion [...]

This is a tutorial which can be used by those who want to setup a basic user administration and authentication in CakePHP, one of the most popular MVC PHP frameworks around. We will be using the Auth component of Cake and we will create some administration screens. Setting up the database First of all we [...]

I recently tried the synchronization feature of Opera. Although it’s a neat feature, I wasn’t really needing it, therefore I decided to cancel it. But for some days I kept seeing a new message on the status bar: “Synchronization disabled”. A quick search didn’t reveal any non-trivial (read: touch ini files) methods, but, after reading [...]