December 2008
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Today I started to play with Grails 1.0.4 on OSX 10.5.6 a.k.a Leopard and the experience was really straight forward, just follow the instructions in the main Grails website. This is my quick 4 point installation guide:
1.- Download grails and unzip it in a local directory like:
/Users/Me/Development/Grails
2.- Setup your environment variables in your $HOME .bash_profile...
Is there life on Mars ? Get the answer today at 8:00 PM.
http://ping.fm/jP1zY
Sleep four hours per day definitively is not a healthy habit, I feel so tired. Time for a RedBull!
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Java, the bad guy of programming languages, do Cloud Computing too. Thanks Stax! More info at: http://www.stax.net/
Oops! I did it again, too much caffeine today, Black Tea + Coffee + Coke = Guaranteed Anxiety.
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5 Movies
Five movies I really enjoyed this 2008, in no particular order:
1.- Iron Man by Jon Favreau 2.- Control by Anton Corbijin 3.- Wall-E by Andrew Stanton 4.- Marie Antoinette by Sofia Coppola 5.- HellBoy II, The Golden Army by Guillermo del Toro
What’s yours ?
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The Dream Comes True by Soichiro Honda.
Hellboy II : The Golden Army, a Sci-Fi flick by Guillermo Del Toro really rocks!
Say no to consumerism! here are six greatest gifts you can give your loved ones. http://ping.fm/U1ECC
Just awesome! Merb gets merged into Rails. Detailed info at: http://ping.fm/JvpoU
Get Rails on Windows, the easy way. InstantRails: http://ping.fm/FbzAQ
Mint, the web based money management tool is now ready for the iPhone. http://ping.fm/WIvox
SanDisk’s Sansa media players are cheaper, easy to use and fun; I’m going to buy one for this Christmas. http://ping.fm/XFe5g
Mac vs PC ( Transformer Version )
http://ping.fm/KRq3I
A short love history.
Breaking!: XING buys Socialmedian. http://bit.ly/aqbg
Next year is going to be full of fun, with the official presentation of our new distributed micro blogging platform. Stay tune…
Robots are coming. Top 10 countries by Robot density: http://ping.fm/z1PD0
Mesh Conference 09 →
Social media can be a difficult reality for some companies, but it also offers tremendous opportunities for both businesses and individuals to communicate, collaborate, entertain and inform. At mesh, you will hear about the creative ways in which you can use social tools to benefit yourself and your customers.
This is hilarious, Real-life Dilbert manager quotes. :D http://ping.fm/poZED
WTF! Burger King now makes a Whopper scented body spray, this world is so crazy. http://ping.fm/iups1
Oh my … Linus Torvalds against C++ ! http://ping.fm/4WLE7
Can Nova, the upcoming OS for smartphones, save Palm ? http://ping.fm/aLwSp
Irish Java Technologies Conference →
Ireland’s leading developer conference for people working or interested in the Java space.
Twitter supports Google’s Friend Connect first but is going to support Facebook Connect too. http://ping.fm/xNE5R
This is RAD, a remake of “The Crow” by Stephen Norrington is coming soon. http://ping.fm/z9I4I
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Finally the long awaited Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 from W3C is ready: http://ping.fm/5fZMc
Really cool, explore London , New York and Toronto places based in your current mood. http://ping.fm/OygZ5
I started using the Enterprise Architect tool from Sparx Systems yesterday. A good tool for UML modeling but need lots of usability fixes.
SQL is a great language for data manipulation and now we can use it on the cloud thanks to Zoho’s CloudSQL. http://ping.fm/vVUyb
A profile of Sergey Brin (one of the Google’s founders) by The Economist. http://ping.fm/93DxW
We need to put down the remote, cut our credit cards in half and start new...
– Jason Calacanis
That’s why Java persistence frameworks sucks: http://ping.fm/oaARZ
Great news for Python community! Python 3.0 hits the streets with a new and amazing flavor. http://ping.fm/nIeiz
I don’t think the new Nokia’s N97 is going to be a treat for Apple’s iPhone. What’s happening with Nokia this days? http://bit.ly/Nokia97
I’m happy because I was invited to test Google’s Friend Connect technology on http://RemixedLife.com
Great news, the open media player Songbird 1.0 hits the streets! get this shiny new bird at: http://getsongbird.com/
State of the Science in 2008 by Seed magazine. http://ping.fm/X6cJw
The imminent Pownce shutdown arrives this December 15. http://ping.fm/2I2xt