|
||||
|
I haven’t written anything here for 3 weeks and a bit… but not because I didn’t do anything – quite the opposite, I finished or almost finished some projects. First small project: a simple Web page so Mendeley users can add themselves on a map: find Mendeley users (we haven’t publicized it from Mendeley so […] I hope everyone have a good 2015! And for the IT colleagues, and as I said when I started my holidays: I wish a bug free and feature rich year! 🙂 A few weeks ago I changed this blog’s theme. Since 2006 it had had the same theme, which was getting a bit old, it had fixed width, and it wasn’t using the latest WordPress improvements like it didn’t have support for widgets. I had a few requirements for the new theme: I wanted a 2 […] A message for my old IBM Thinkpad T60 laptop: thank you for all your good service! I probably can say that it’s the best laptop that I have ever had and the one that lasted longest (8 years is quite a lot for a laptop!) In August 2006 I got my previous laptop: an IBM […] Recently I’ve done a few tests querying data (POIs, Points of Interest) from Open Street Map. I imported the data from OSM into different databases and formats and I wanted to query it. I’ll show 3 queries: from MongoDB, from PostgreSQL (tables using Osmosis format), from PostgreSQL (tables using osm2psql format). POIs from MongoDB I […] A few months ago I was researching how safe it is to travel to a few countries. I used the Foreign Travel Advice webpage from the British government. I thought to do a bit of “quality control” of their information. What do they say about countries that I know well? So I went to read […] Fa poc que he acabat el llibre “Los Ăšltimos Libres” de Victor M. Valenzuela. Es pot comprar en format epub o en format paper. M’ha agradat molt! L’autor Ă©s enginyer informĂ tic, el llibre Ă©s fĂ cil de llegir i m’ha enganxat molt. Es pot llegir en pocs dies ja que Ă©s curt i fĂ cil de llegir. […] Last June I mentioned in another blog post: on the last weekend of April I started the London LOOP (London Outer Orbital Circle). In the first weekend of October I finished it! 240 Km, 15 stages (officially 23 stages but I followed a book that divided it into 15 stages). The London LOOP has been […] Like in 2013 I attended the Pycon-UK conference in Coventry. Amazing conference, I went to many talks with different topics: Python itself, high performance Python, testing software, some more social talks, the always interesting lightning talks, etc. I could write about many of the talks but some people are already doing it in the PostConf […] There are many webpages talking about the London Underground. The oldest in the world, very iconical, unused stations, etc. Here I just want to compare a few things between the London Underground and Barcelona metro. One of the subtle differences is the escalator speed. Yes, the escalators in the London Underground are noticeably faster than […] |
||||
 Powered by WordPress & Atahualpa |
||||
