December 2011
4 posts
Aentos goes climbing!
We went last Friday climbing! This was real fun and a great experience. We are perfectly in shape and we all have bodies of elite athletes, so we mmm… not really. Everything did hurt afterwards :) But we did expend a cool time together and we really recommend it.
After exercise recovery was a perfect combination of wine and meat at a great Uruguayan Grill.
We hope you enjoy the pictures.
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“Skinny Controller; Fat Model” is misleading →
Data Modeling at Scale: MongoDb + Mongoid,... →
A bad mobile experience will no longer be... →
November 2011
3 posts
Mobile backend solutions →
Resumen NSConference Vilanova 2011
Evento
http://lanyrd.com/2011/nscoders-conference-2011
Programa
http://nsconf.nscoders.org/2011/10/programa-definitivo-de-la-nsconf.html
Resumen de @dfreniche
http://blog.freniche.com/2011/11/04/la-nsconf11-de-vilanova-i-la-geltru
Podcast de @alexito4
http://www.elmundoexterior.es/nsconf-2011-y-google-dev-fest-barcelona
Libro Sobre Aplicaciones Moviles de la MMA →
September 2011
3 posts
Las apps en España →
CSS font-size: em vs. px vs. pt vs. percent →
August 2011
10 posts
iPhone Apps Design Mistakes: Disregard Of Context →
iPhone Apps Design Mistakes: Over-Blown Visuals →
Designing for Retina display
The guys at bjango came up with a nice workflow regarding the need of two sets of images for the different iPhone resolutions. They explain how they use just one photoshop document for both resolutions. This is a nice resource for iPhone designers:
http://bjango.com/articles/designingforretina/
and the second part is a great most commmon questions about designing for retina:
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Schema Design with MongoDB [video] →
Kyle Banker’s presentation at MongoNYC. Slides available at http://www.slideshare.net/kbanker/mongodb-schema-design-mongony
An iOS Developer Takes on Android →
http://kevsaidwhat.blogspot.com/2011/08/android-and-iphone-apps-in-sync-here.html
Golden Grid System →
A folding grid for responsive design.
Bootstrap is a toolkit from Twitter designed to... →
It includes base CSS and HTML for typography, forms, buttons, tables, grids, navigation, and more.
Resources for getting started with Ruby on Rails →
Pivotal Labs Tech Talk: MongoDB →
An interesting introductory tech talk about MongoDB of approx. 1 hour.
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Faceplanting: an app launch horror story with a... →
Michael explains the mistakes they made when launching a new iPhone app and how they managed to save the situation from becoming a disaster.
July 2011
9 posts
Code Review: Ruby and Rails idioms →
20+ Rubyists to Follow on Google+ →
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Slides and additional resources for my talk "Rails...
Last week I gave a talk about developing web applications for mobile devices at Conferencia Rails.
These are the slides to my talk:
Rails for Mobile Devices @ Conferencia Rails 2011 View more presentations from Alberto Perdomo
At the end of the slides you’ll find a list of helpful tools for developing mobile web applications, but here goes another list of additional resources you might...
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Mobile Developer’s Guide →
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Functional testing on iOS with Frank
Quick Demo:
http://vimeo.com/21860134
Speaking:
http://www.melbournecocoaheads.com/testing-ios-apps-with-frank-slides-and-videos/
Official site:
https://github.com/moredip/Frank/blob/master/README.md
Setup steps:
https://github.com/moredip/Frank/wiki/Frankifying-your-app-in-XCode-4
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UI Guidelines for mobile and tablet web app design →
Official user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) guidelines from the manufacturers, links to which you can find below, are a source of inspiration for mobile web and app design. Here, you will find guidelines, samples, tips, and descriptions of common mistakes. Many of the guidelines focus on native application development, but we can apply most parts of them to mobile web design too.
Reducing the file size of HTML documents →
A few days ago I came across this link in my timeline.
In this article the guys from Google explain how you can reduce the size of your HTML pages by up to 20% by omitting some tags. Doing so is valid according to the HTML4 DTD.
June 2011
2 posts
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Conferencia Rails 2011
Hi guys,
once again this year Judit, Ancor, Juanjo and me will be attending Conferencia Rails 2011, the annual Ruby and Rails conference happening July 13-15th in Madrid.
This year the conference is moving to the summer season (in previous years it was held in November) and to a fancy new location at the ‘El Retiro’ Park.
There will be workshops on Wednesday followed by two days of...
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We are sponsoring Conferencia Rails 2011
After a few years attending the conference in Madrid we are delighted to announce this time our sponsorship of this great event.
The conference will be happening 14th-15th of July in Madrid. Hope to see you there!
May 2011
3 posts
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Prevent iOS (Iphone/Ipad) from styling your...
If you have a number in your web site that looks like a telephone number, iOS will style this element differently. This could break your design. If you want to disable this, just put the following line on your html header:
<meta name=”format-detection” content=”telephone=no”>
The bad thing about disabling this, is that you lose the iOS feature of calling directly...
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Our new website is up!
We’ve been wanting to renew our company website for quite a while now. As usual client work has been keeping us busy and it has taken us much longer than we really expected and intended.
For the last months we have been using the few available gaps in our busy schedule to design a brand new image from scratch. Everything except for the logo has been pretty much been rethought and reworked....
Impresiones Thevnt 2011
La semana pasada asistí un año más a la conferencia theEvnt en Cáceres, un evento sobre tecnologías en Internet, que Javier Alonso un año más y Kini han organizado maravillosamente.
A theEvnt asisten desarrolladores, empresarios, gente de marketing, de diseño,… La verdad que un grupo bastante heterogéneo, pero con un factor común. La inquietud y las ganas de hacer cosas.
Me gustaron las...
September 2010
1 post
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Thoughts about the new syntax in SASS3 (.scss)
SASS3 is out since a couple of months right now and I have been using it the last days. There are a lot of changes in SASS3 (see changelog), but the most sifgnifcant one for me it´s the new syntax. It is known as SCSS (Sassy CSS).
It´s a big step that the guys of SASS have done towards an approachable syntax for those new to this metalanguage. SCSS it´s based on the CSS3 spec, and is therefore...
August 2010
2 posts
Easy setup for your cucumber scenarios using the...
At AENTOS we tend to avoid using selenium when writing cucumber features but we always end up writing some fancy scenarios that rely heavily on Javascript or AJAX calls and don’t work properly on the envjs or culerity capybara drivers. In the past we’ve setup a few CI environments to use the xvfb server, export displays before running the tests, etc. but I have to say it has always been...
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Testing AJAX autocomplete fields with cucumber and...
Recently I had to write some cucumber scenarios which featured an AJAX autocomplete. As this seemed not to be pretty straightforward and I didn’t know how to test the autocomplete I had to step out of my TDD flow and start by writing the code first. In order to implement the autocomplete I used the widget included in the jQuery UI library. Once I knew the feature was working I sat down and wrote...
June 2010
1 post
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Rubysalsa is going to the Railsconf 2010
The Ruby Salsa team will be attending RailsConf 2010 and will to try to capture the perspectives and thoughts of attendees and speakers and give the opportunity to anyone to broadcast their message to the community.
RubySalsa is a joint project put together by Galar and Aentos with the intention to work together in the Rails world.
Stay tuned for some salsa!
May 2010
1 post
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Nominate your Rubyhero →
April 2010
2 posts
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Continuous integration and deployment with...
If you are into testing and develop with Ruby on Rails you are probably using a continuous integration server like cruisecontrol.rb, hudson or integrity. We are in the process of migrating from cruisecontrol.rb to integrity, mainly because cruisecontrol.rb consumes a lot of resources when running many builders. Integrity is very slim and lightweight.
We have been using a plugin for...
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Lightning Talk - Las Palmas on Rails
This is a lightning talk in spanish for the last Las Palmas on Rails. I tried to explain in 5 minutes my impressions about the conference The Event I assisted in Cáceres last week. I will post something in english soon. In the meantime, here is the presentation:
Caramelos con sabor a TheEvnt
View more presentations from Juanjo Andres Prado.
March 2010
1 post
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Agile vs traditional planning
In the next weeks I am going to write a series of blog posts covering our agile planning and development process. In this first post I’ll introduce the agile approach, its benefits and key differences to the traditional approach.
The traditional ways of planning software projects have shown that [1]:
2/3 of the projects overrun their cost estimates
65% of the features implemented were...
February 2010
1 post
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No pierdas el rumbo (sobre compass y sass)
En la última reunión de Las Palmas on Rails dí una charla sobre compass y sass. La intención de la charla era explicar de manera introductoria compass y sass y crear la curiosidad en los asistentes por probarlo.
Aquí está la presentación:
View more presentations from Juanjo Andres Prado.
December 2009
1 post
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New inkscape 0.47 problem with leopard: Copy paste...
If you are an Inkscape and Mac lover like me, you may have downloaded the latest 0.47 release for Leopard. I experienced a problem copying and pasting vector objects in the same document. Inkscape did paste the vector objects as bitmap images, which was really annoying. After a quick research I found out it was a problem of a funcionality of X11. Just go to X11->Preferences->Pasteboard and...
October 2009
1 post
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Medica 2009
I will be attending the Medica 2009 in Düsseldorf. If you happen to be around and want to have a chat just write or twitt me.
August 2009
1 post
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RailsRumble 09: Experiences and lessons learned
Over the last weekend i participated with Alejandro González, Kilian Barrera and Carlos Urbin in the Rails Rumble contest.
Our team Horcon boys had the idea to develop a web application that helps you plan your trips with friends and family members. You can add destinations, plan activities to do every day, keep track of the estimated money you are going to spend during the trip, etc. The new...
May 2009
1 post
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Continuous deployment using cruisecontrol.rb and...
It’s been a year or two since we have been using cruisecontrol.rb as a continuous integration server for our rails projects. We have also been using capistrano for some time to deploy our applications.
Lately i had been wanting to take it one step further and set up continuous deployment so i started looking for a ccrb plugin which supported deploying projects on successful builds using...
April 2009
2 posts
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Phusion passenger now supports nginx
The guys from Phusion have developed a passenger module for nginx. The development of was sponsored by EngineYard.
This is great news!
Read more about the release here
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Github launches an integrated issue tracker →
March 2009
4 posts
