Going Open Source

As the deadline approaches we already have a very functional framework. However there are some things we are aware are wrong I see no reason for not opening the project, maybe what I need is just some little pressure from outside, having some developers every where in the world asking for functionalities and bug fixing.…

Things that I think (about my thesys)

Things to improve– Application level monitoringDespite the monitoring is one of the many implementation dependent functionalities, at least, in the j2me implementation it should be done at the application level due the actual approach just checks the existence of the host address. What if the application failed but the device is still up? This may…

Asynchronic Model & Security

It’s been many weeks working on my thesis and as I see the deadline approaching there are still many things left, many things that I, as a developer using the framework would like to have. Among most important thing is the completely asynchronous approach to the message passing mechanisms and the improvement of the security…

Action always generates inspiration – Quote

This quotation really touched me today, I hope that you also find it interesting: We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. Frank Tibolt (no idea about who Frank Tibolt is, but there is a book in amazon written by him, I’ll…

Soy antioqueño, Visto de alpargatas

Soy antioqueño. Visto de alpargatas, carriel de nutria y ruana montañera. Tengo para el amor las serenatas y para los rivales mi barbera. Ningún bambuco a mi guitarra escapa, y en noches de jolgorio y aguardiente, sólo respeto lo que diga el Papa y tuteo hasta al mismo presidente. Miro la vida con desdén profundo,…

Thesis, thesis and thesis!

Today is the third day in a row that I have been working on my thesis. I took a week off work and confined myself to my room, my laptop and my flickering internet connection. If you feel a little interested about it, we (Andres Castano and me) designing and coding a framework for P2P…

European Ideological Consolidation

OK, I finally decided to post the article I sent to the Saint Gallen Symposium and that luckily has given me the chance of taking part of such a marvelous event in the swiss Saint Gallen. Take a look at it and don’t be so rough on your comments, but still don’t keep your thoughts…

How To: Automatic parsing of an XML document with C#

Ok, this is something I learnt today. I have a web service that responses me a string with a xml content that is something like this: 1. Getting a complete XML example <indicadores xmlns=”http://tempuri.org/Indicadores1.xsd“&gt; <indicador> <strnombre>UVR</strnombre> <strvalorindicador>145.2891</strvalorindicador> <datfechainiciovigencia>20041007</datfechainiciovigencia> <numvariacion>1</numvariacion> <numid>83</numid> </indicador> <indicador> <strnombre>I-TES</strnombre> <strvalorindicador>104.68</strvalorindicador> <datfechainiciovigencia>20041005</datfechainiciovigencia> <numvariacion>1</numvariacion> <numid>178</numid> </indicador> <indicador> <strnombre>DTF 90 Días (E.A.)</strnombre> <strvalorindicador>7.66%</strvalorindicador> <datfechainiciovigencia>20041004</datfechainiciovigencia>…

Developing a Mobile Game

Hi People! My new adventure is writting a mobile game for a contest is being held somewhere in spain. It’s so nice to work at what you really like, I’ll tell you later and show you more screenshots from what we are doing. Ah, yeah, I’m working at it with my frind Andres Castaño! Bye