Planet SoC

Pequeño descanso en mi apretado horario esta semana. Ojeada a la prensa deportiva, que este fin de semana de primera jornada no he podido seguir el comienzo de la liga.
Noticia destacada del Marca: “el R.Madrid vuelve a la carga con Villa”.
Noticia destacada del Mundo Deportivo: “[Arshavin] No se mueve”.
¿Los resultados de ayer? Barça y Madrid perdieron. Y me alegro. Soy simpatizante del Barça, pero esto es fútbol y no un circo, que es lo que montan estos dos equipos.
Espero que este año gane la liga el Osasuna.

I’ve been away too much time, but this is a nice date to return. Tomorrow, 31/08 is the Blog Day, and I’ve been nominated. I must write about 5 blogs that I’d like to recommend, and preferably if they are from different cultures.
So here we go:

I’ve been following Michael Sync for a while. He’s a developer from Myanmar (also known as Burma or Birmania in Spanish), lately focused in writing about Silverlight.

My friend Javi Carnero started recently a blog (in Spanish) and this is… well, he drinks more that he should, and the impact that alcohol has in his brain is reflected in his blog.

Today at 7pm I had near of 400 unread posts at my RSS reader.
I spent most of the night at my reader, and these are the results.


How do you manage your feeds? How many time do you spend in your RSS reader?

Today when updating my RSS reader I found a link to a very interesting video in Vimeo. It is a demo about the new ‘cooperation mode’ in Eclipse. I felt in love with Gobby the first time I saw it, but never found the chance of using it.
But Cola, of the Eclipse Communication Framework team, can really revolutionize what we understand for pair programming and increase the adoption of this practice.

First of the writings about GSoC 2008 is my application to WordPress, called “Trac Social Bug Tracking Development”, that would have been mentored by Lloyd Budd if it had been selected.

== Personal Details ==
* Name: Christian Lopez Espinola
* Email: Not published
* GTalk ID: Not published
I’ll be idling at #wordpress-dev on Freenode too.
== Project Proposal ==
I want to work on the Trac social improvements for the WP community proposal at your Ideas page.
I have done some research about how karma works in another systems. I found this article terribly useful: http://eskar.dk/andreas/blog/?p=154

Last year I didn’t posted too much about my work in ArgoUML through the Google Summer of Code program. This year I’ve been selected again, and I wanted to write here more stuff about it.
But the way, I haven’t done it yet. Because I want to change this, I’ll do it from now, but readers need to have context. So in the next days I’ll publish here my applications, and the week reports I’ve sent to the ArgoUML mailing lists in the firsts weeks. We’ll lose the time frame where they were sent or wrote, but at least they will be public on my blog.

At the moment I’m building a CMS with ASP.NET, ASP.NET Ajax and the ASP.NET Ajax Toolkit. One of the great features that the AJAX Toolkit provides us is the possibility of adding modal popups.
I’m using them for gridviews that contains a lot of columns, and cannot be displayed in the page without the horizontal scroll. My solution for that is displaying the more important data, and then, when a row is selected, a detailform is displayed with all the data in a popup panel. My solution is based on Matt Berseth excellent post: Master-Detail with the GridView, DetailsView and ModalPopup Controls. This solves the problem of editing rows, but what happens when we want to add a new one?

At the moment I’m building a CMS with ASP.NET, ASP.NET Ajax and the ASP.NET Ajax Toolkit. One of the great features that the AJAX Toolkit provides us is the possibility of adding modal popups.
I’m using them for gridviews that contains a lot of columns, and cannot be displayed in the page without the horizontal scroll. My solution for that is displaying the more important data, and then, when a row is selected, a detailform is displayed with all the data in a popup panel. My solution is based on Matt Berseth excellent post: Master-Detail with the GridView, DetailsView and ModalPopup Controls. This solves the problem of editing rows, but what happens when we want to add a new one?

The middle of every succesful project looks like a disaster.

Google Reader has been a target of critics in the past for some features like sharing feeds. I don’t mind about it, the feeds that I’m subscribed to are (maybe outdated) on the blogroll section.
But shared items have been a community accepted feature. We all love it. And we love it more since now we can add notes to shared items.
But some friends of mine have started giving misuse of that. They use it for sharing all their blog posts. A desperate attempt for catching more readers.
Please, focus on your contents. If I am interested in, I’m already subscribed. If I’m not it is because I don’t care. Don’t spam at me. Please.