I Jornadas de Software Libre SSL-ULL (The Report)

The past few days has been very fun and exciting for me. I met great hackers (a couple of them were also friends) and all the presentations I attended have been really interesting. I am happy enough with my presentation and with the questions that people asked to me...

I Encuentro de Software Libre de la ULL

Me complace anunciar que la próxima semana se celebra el I Encuentro de Software Libre de la ULL. Mis felicitaciones a la organización porque realmente han conseguido un evento muy atractivo tanto por los contenidos como por los ponentes. También estoy muy...

NPlot + Gtk#

Miguel wrote a fantastic Gtk# control for NPlot. The problem is that this tarball is using Gtk#1. To use Gtk# 2 you must to change lib/Makefile and replace gtk-sharp with gtk-sharp-2.0. You can download the fixed tarball here. This is another code example to draw a...

Beagle in the Castle

I have coded a Beagle web interface for MonoRail. It let you search keywords inside documents, IM conversations and other files in your hard disk. Beagle rocks :-). It uses Beagle.dll instead of doing system calls and the code is pretty simple. It is based on...

SharpTranslator 0.1

I was an user of the i2e (english to spanish word translator; apt-get install i2e) and I wanted to support the project by adding new words but the project seems to be died. So I have taked the i2e dictionary and developed a little Gtk# application which is a new...

ActiveRecord and NHibernate second level cache

Wow!!! NHibernate second level cache rocks!. Before enabling the NHibernate second level cache in my Castle web application, a controller accesing several models in the database delayed about 40 seconds in process and render a request. This becomes the application...

Increasing Eclipse performance on Ubuntu

Eclipse package in Ubuntu Dapper depends on the GNU Java bytecode interpreter (gij-4.1) and the performance is extremly bad, is very heavy. Nowdays there are official Ubuntu packages for Sun JDK (sun-java5-jdk) and the performance is obviously greather, the difference...

I Congreso de GULIC

Este fin de semana en San Miguel (Tenerife, España) se celebra el I Congreso de GULIC . Es una oportunidad estupenda para los que se están iniciando en el mundo del software libre a nivel usuario y también a nivel desarrollador o administrador de sistemas. El...

Web services: Circular reference serializing problem

Web services using Document/literal (literal XML) encoding is the actual interoperability standard. The XmlSerializer in Mono which is used in System.Web.Services.WebService serializes using this standard and is pretty simple to write web services using...