20100913 Misclinklanea, 3

Solar powered hotspots. Beautiful and exciting story. More like these, please –these projects fascinate me! ~ The Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Medio Rural y Marino (Spain’s equivalent to DEFRA) doesn’t get it: the new version of its own cartographic and satellite maps viewer (SIGPAC) will use Silverlight. Yet another failed opportunity to jump onto [...]

20100911 Misclinklanea, 2

Broadcom open source their wireless drivers. YES! The driver, while still a work in progress, is released as full source and uses the native mac80211 stack. It supports multiple current chips (BCM4313, BCM43224, BCM43225) as well as providing a framework for supporting additional chips in the future, including mac80211-aware embedded chips. Having working, native drivers [...]

20100909 Misclinklanea

Mozilla Labs Gaming looks interesting – specially the fact that they don’t seem to be focusing on desktop platforms only (see the reference to touch events). Having good references is always a good thing. I’m not sure about the horse power of current mobile platforms for running browser applications, though… And what’s with the pixelated, [...]

20100623 ruby in the pub #4 :after

Julian Burgess (who I had virtually met via Twitter) suggested me I should attend the next ruby in the pub. It sounded decidedly odd: mixing journalists with an interest for code with ruby developers; even more strange considering I’m not a ruby expert as much as I try, so I thought it could be interesting [...]

20100612 Using jQuery’s inline Datepicker within a form

When you use the inline version of jQuery UI’s Datepicker within a form, it doesn’t submit its value back to the server, since there’s no form element in it. And that’s a pity, because I find the inline mode way more comfortable for users: rather than having to click a button in order to open [...]