Mis cachivaches para trabajar

Siempre hay un cierto interés por conocer el equipo y programas que otros desarrolladores usan para trabajar. Ya que uso ciertas cosas “raras” (al menos poco frecuentes) y tras escuchar el último podcast de “El amuleto de Yendor”, que comentaban algunos de estos temas (especialmente teclados). Como introducción, me dedico principalmente a programar en Python, así que el entorno está adaptado a eso. Como este post está quedado muy largo, empiezo con el hardware (ordenador, trackball, configuración de teclado y teclados) y continuaremos en otro post con el software. Ordenador Desde hace un… Read More

Think a little about the readers of your web site

This is a translation of a post by Ricardo Galli about some of the lessons he has learned on Menéame, a social news website in Spanish similar to Digg. I wanted to share some of the concepts with my co-workers, but I thought that it could be interesting to translate the complete work and share it with the whole world 😉 Any English errors are my own. I will also like to thank David Brodigan for help me reviewing the English version. Bored of having to wait more than 5 seconds to display a blog’s page? Annoyed… Read More

Commenting the code

I always find surprising to find out comments like that regarding code comment. I can understand that someone argues about that writing comments on the code is boring, or that you forget about it or whatever. But to say that the code shouldn’t be commented at all looks a little dangerous to me. That doesn’t mean that you’ll have to comment everything. Or that adding a comment it’s an excuse to not be clear directly on the code, or the comment should be repeat what is on the code. You’ll have to keep a… Read More