About me
I love to make creative stuff with computers, so I spend a lot of time with them, trying to find out what can be done. My main tools are php, actionscript, javascript, opengl with c/c++ and some ruby. I am making sporadic incursions into python and processing too. In the past, I also used Logo (which I loved), lots of Basic flavours (including Visual Basic and even Mallard Basic), Pascal, POV and lots more things I forgot in order to make space for more stuff in my head.
Incidentaly I'm a Computer Science engineer. We study things that we do not use in real life and we do things in real life which are pretty much forbidden in academic circles. Fortunately both worlds overlap in certain areas, and when they do not but almost do, we can take the best ideas from each field and make cool things.
I'm currently based in London, UK; after four years here I decided it was time to have my own teapot! It is curved and lovely and makes very good tea. It has nice refractions and its environmental mapping is way better than the one you usually find in 3d software.
About this site
Here's where I post solutions, ideas, tricks, errors and works in progress. I also put here my cheatsheets and other mental notes - so that I don't forget, and maybe someone else may find them useful.
Contact
- It is listas, with a nice e-mail thingy in the middle, and soledadpenades.com
- IM/MSN/Gtalk
- Ask me first.
- IRC
- I'm in #escena in ircnet and probably #ukscene or #pixel too whenever I remember about IRC
- Phone
- Ask me first too, but I will avoid giving you my number :-P
Please do not send me offers for building the next big award winning web 2.0 social website/community. You can't even imagine how boring is it to read the same requirements once and once again. Be imaginative and come up with something exciting, thank you.
Gargaj
20061210
Hi!
Sorry to hear about your leaving of the scene - I really hope this only means the ceasing of activity and we'll see you at some parties still.
The main reason I chose to contact you is that your entry contained a sidenote that you've been wondering about starting up a scene Wiki of sorts.
I don't know if you ever heard of it, but there is one already: http://scene.nl/wiki/index.php/Xplsv
Shifter and I have been kinda nursing it for a while now, and it's getting fairly decent. You might wanna check it out.
Hugs and all the best,
Gargaj
sole
20061210
Hi Garg! I don't think I'm going to be around the "demoscene lands" for a while, I'm a bit tired of it all, including parties.
I didn't know about that wiki either. If I ever go back to do some scene stuff will try to contribute since I like wikis quite a lot, do not doubt it.
Thanks!
rc55
20070721
Hi Sole!
I just noticed the redesign (I'm a faithful RSS reader type!) - looks fantastic, very fresh indeed. :)
Hope you're keeping well, your blog continues to be interesting reading!
Ruairi
sole
20070722
Hey R! Thanks for being a faithful RSS reader, I truly appreciate it - and thanks for the compliments about the design. Must confess trace helped me a bit with it :-)
I won't be able to make it to sundown :( but I'll try to send you something :-)