Articles, tutorials, tech notes, contest updates, and thoughts on software engineering (42 posts).
Last August I found out about Formula Pi Kickstarter campaign by @pi_borg: Self driving robot cars programmed in a Raspberry Pi (Pi Zero). I liked the idea so I backed the project and asked friends to join. @hombrenieve1983 was the most enthusiast: “I’m in!”. Our team was called RasPerras del Infierno, as a reference to […]
Three Words A Day is now available for your smartphone, both Android and iOS supported! And more languages can be played! Get the Three Words A Day appsfuel application and learn three new words every day. With just a few minutes to play you will practice your vocabulary. New languages available are English, Spanish, Italian, […]
Last Friday I had the opportunity to attend the Firefox OS day in UPM organized by movilforum. Buongiorno, where I work, sent Javi and myself to learn about Firefox OS, how to develop apps and upload them to Firefox OS Marketplace. Thanks Carolina 🙂 Before lunch there were some talks. They explained all about Firefox […]
We haven’t posted yet about our latest project and we are already announcing that we won the Spanish Chrome Web Store contest 😀 The Chrome App is called 3 words a day and will help you learning 3 English words every day. Just 3 words every day so you can do it as soon as […]
Linked User Feedback (LUF) is a prototype I led while in iSOCO, as part of our work on the SOA4All project. The LUF service is basically a RESTful API that permits publishing and retrieving user-generated feedback in the forms of ratings, comments and tags. This information is semantically stored in an RDF repository following the Review […]
Bottle Top Race for Android is our new game in the Android Market. It is a racing game that is played by hitting the phone like if it was the bottle top. The harder you hit it, the longer the shot. Check out the video to see how to play this game. First click on […]
Now that I have just left iSOCO (and joined Playence), I thought it was a good opportunity to describe in this blog a couple of the interesting projects I was involved while in there. miKrow is an innovation prototype where we applied the microblogging approach to knowledge management. There’s plenty of information in http://mikrow.isoco.net so I won’t […]
Once again, we’ve had the opportunity to work with our cousin @numeroteca, in another collaboration with Basurama in the context of their Trans Trash project (“Understanding waste streams”) and exhibition. As he says, it’s great that our work has been displayed no less than at MIT! In particular, we’ve helped out in the Trash-o-meter tool (“How much […]
Our first Android application is already in the Android Market! It’s called Chameleon Color Picker and it displays the color of the objects you point the camera to. It also displays the RGB and hexadecimal codes, so you can use that color in any other program. The idea came from the 0,000001 Megapixels camera post from “No […]
In yet another collaboration between Meipi and Basurama (remember Spermola), we are glad to have participated in our way in the 6000km project, which uses meipi to geolocate the panoramic photographs taken to document “the huge extensions of territory consumption of the large cities in Spain”, and “the uncontrolled growth of cities and the consumption […]
Happy new year everyone! Just a quick post (and not four, like last year;) to sum up what we’ve been working at during 2010. Basically, we’ve kept working around the three big projects we had already running –meipi, tusiyu and tubegraph– and also played with new focused experiments. 🙂 MEIPI: During 2010, new interesting meipis […]
Tired of doing repetitive tasks on some emails you receive? AppEngine Mail Processor is here to solve your problems! Sometimes we receive emails that ask us to click on a link to confirm an account, or to send some data or any other task. Everything that is triggered by an email and that requires an […]
[English version below] “Twitt… Quién?” es una extensión para Google Chrome que busca usuarios de twitter en las páginas visitadas y muestra información sobre ellos: “Twitt… Quién?” se puede descargar aquí. La idea es enriquecer la navegación habitual, proporcionando -no intrusivamente, en un panel desplegable- información básica de los usuarios de twitter que aparezcan en cualquier página. […]
Motivation We are increasingly dealing with Linked Data, witnessing how Internet is turning into a Web of Data, a huge DataBase with very different sets of data linked together and available online. We thought we could use this information not only to find answers, but also to automatically generate questions… for a quiz that could […]
We finally conclude with the fourth post about what went on for us during 2009: Tusiyu Meipi Tubegraph other stuff iWeekend has meant a lot for us during this 2009, as we had the chance to attend three of them, and each of those in a different manner. It all began of course in January […]
We continue with our third post about where we were involved in 2009: Tusiyu Meipi Tubegraph other stuff Tubegraph We created Tubegraph as an experiment for dynamically rating videos at the end of 2008, following a contest in a Google Pizza Night event. The beginning of 2009 was very promising for this project, as we […]
This is the second post of our 2009 recap, where we are talking about: Tusiyu Meipi Tubegraph (coming soon) other stuff (coming soon) Meipi is the collaborative mapping project we’ve been working at with four other meipis (Dome aka @urbanohumano, Alfonso, Pablo and Francesco aka @immaginoteca) since 2007. The purpose of the tool is permit […]
With 2009 just over (well, kind of;-), we thought this was a good moment to write something about the projects we are involved in (in addition to Jorge’s work at Buongiorno and Guillermo’s at iSOCO) and what happened during the past year. So this is the first of four posts about: Tusiyu Meipi (coming soon) […]
En general, la gente que esté leyendo este post sabrá lo que es un feed, y la utilidad que tiene para estar al tanto de todo tipo de actualizaciones en Internet. A nuestro padre por ejemplo le tenemos ya convencido de las bondades del rss. Nosotros es cierto que no actualizamos este blog tanto como […]
El equipo Meipi al completo (los seis:-) nos hemos venido a Gijón a participar en el Encuentro Internacional de Cartografía Ciudadana organizado por Pablo de Soto. El programa tiene muy buena pinta y tendremos la oportunidad de relacionarnos con gente involucrada en proyectos muy interesantes relacionados con los mapas y la participación. Algunos de estos […]
Last Wednesday, approximately 50% of us attended the Yahoo! Developer Network evening in Barcelona, where Chris Heilmann presented some interesting stuff about what YDN is able to offer. What he talked about is quite well explained in his blog, so we’re just pointing at it from here. 🙂 We’re also taking this opportunity to show […]
Después de lo bien que lo pasamos en el iWeekend de Madrid, en el que salió adelante nuestra idea de Tusiyu, teníamos muchas ganas de repetir y participar desde otro punto de vista. Así que no lo dudamos y el fin de semana pasado nos plantamos en Valencia para ayudar en la creación de una […]
Otra curiosa traducción, encontrada a la salida de una farmacia en Dupont Circle, Washington DC: ¿Prohibido qué? Quizás sería mejor usar el infinitivo, vaya. Por cierto, he ido a buscar el cartel en Street View, y no lo veo. ¿Lo habré soñado? 😎 Bonus: Me pareció muy metafórica para los tiempos que corren esta señal con […]
No hemos hablado aún mucho de Tusiyu por el Lamboratory, por lo cual todavía tenemos cuartelillo para mencionarlo cuando hagamos cambios, lo cual es justo lo que hemos hecho casi dos meses después de la experiencia del iWeekend. 🙂 Hemos estado afinando algunas de las cosas que se nos quedaron a medias entonces, de tal […]
El otro día nos llegó a casa el premio que aportaba Sun al proyecto ganador del iWeekend. Es un Sun Ultra 24 Workstation. Antes de recibir el premio nos pasaron un enlace a la página del ordenador en Sun.com. Al pasarle el enlace a Rau1 me preguntó si por ese precio venía Jonathan Schwartz a […]
El pasado fin de semana acudimos al iWeekend en Madrid, un evento que prometía (y vaya, luego comprobamos que con razón!:-) Consiste en juntarse 50 personas con distintas habilidades a montar una startup en un fin de semana. ¿Suena raro? Pues fue una experiencia increíble. 😀 El viernes por la tarde era el momento de […]
Como dicen Faemino y Cansado, “ser Subcampeón mola mucho más que ser Campeón” 🙂 (ver final del vídeo, donde lo demuestran, jeje).En esa línea, no queríamos dejar pasar los dos “subcampeonatos” que hemos obtenido al final del 2008, tanto con Meipi como con TubeGraph: A Meipi nos dieron un accésit en un concurso de la UPM, entre 160-y-pico participantes, ojo, […]
Hace poco publicamos el último friqueo en el que hemos estado trabajando. Se llama TubeGraph y permite valorar dinámicamente los vídeos. Con las valoraciones de todos los usuarios se crean unas gráficas que permiten ver qué partes del vídeo son más interesantes. La idea se le ocurrió a Guille durante el Google Open Pizza Night. […]
El jueves 25 estuvimos los Lamb Brothers en el Google Developer Day 2008. Este año se celebraba en el Parque de Atracciones de Madrid y no coincidía con los Developer Day en otros lugares. Ya en la acreditación coincidimos con la gente que conocimos en la Campus Party del año pasado (casi hacemos un pleno […]
Durante el viaje por México también nos encontramos esta señal… que pide que se obedezcan las señales. Yo obedecí todas las señales menos esta :-p
In our recent trip through Mexico we had the chance to admire this funny translation in Grutas de Rancho Nuevo, near San Cristóbal de las Casas: “Prohibido el Paso = Forbidden the Step” (which I guess is not proper English:). Even funnier is to find out that some people have already uploaded pictures from there. […]
We hadn’t posted about meipi.org/spermola yet, a meipi with some special characteristics that we have developed specially for Basurama. This “forum for discussion and reflection on trash, waste and reuse in all its formats and possible meanings” (and also good people;) wanted to have a tool to enable the sharing of objects. For us, it […]
Voy a aprovechar el reciente lanzamiento de la nueva web de Blinko para hablar algo de mi trabajo en el Mundo Real™. Blinko es una nueva red social centrada en el móvil y la mensajería. El registro está todavía limitado a usuarios con invitación. Se puede acceder por la web (blinko.com), por wap (m.blinko.com) y […]
We finally uploaded the Beta version of Meipi! 🙂 As announced in Meipi Blog (in Spanish), we are still working on many different issues and finishing a special Meipi for Basurama. So, instead of bothering everyone with technical nonsense, we’ll just encourage you to take a look at the improved version. Hopefully this video created […]
El pasado jueves los Lamb Brothers acudimos a la Google Open Pizza Night, en donde entre otras cosas (buena gente, pizza, bebidas…) se presentaba la nueva API de Youtube. Se prometían premios para las mejores aplicaciones desarrolladas con la nueva API, más allá de los ejemplos mostrados. Pues bien, nuestro pequeño prototipo logró ser la […]
Apart from spending time in the projects we usually talk about in the Lamboratory, Jorge and me also have our “proper” jobs, of course. 🙂 And being one of the aims of this site to gather together our kind-of-portfolio, this wouldn’t be complete without mentioning those. After almost three years in a Telefónica I+D project […]
The advantage of “0110 0110 0110” is that being palindromic it can be read from both sides of the street (and even from above;-)
El blog programa con Google , el blog oficial de Google para los desarrolladores en español, habló hace poco de nuestro Gadget para la Comunicación entre usuarios. En la entrada hablan del gadget que permite enviar y recibir mensajes entre los gadgets de distintos usuarios y que se puede utilizar para crear diversos juegos y […]
We’ve been saying that Meipi (the collaborative local and thematic maps project we are involved in) is “at its alpha stage” for a while now. I bet most people have already guessed that there would be a beta stage after this one. And that is in fact our idea. 🙂 We’re not doing it as […]
Today we have released Multi User Communication gadget and the first game that takes advantage of its functionality: a Tic Tac Toe game. Multi User Communication gadget can be used to send and receive messages between the igoogle pages of different users. Developers can create with this gadget any application or game they can imagine […]
Alvy, de microsiervos.com, escribió un post sobre Google Chart API, una API que permite generar gráficos indicando los datos que tienen que mostrar, permitiendo insertarlos en la página que quieras. El ejemplo de uso de la API era el siguiente, comentando que no había conseguido girarlo todavía: Con un pequeño truco se puede conseguir girar […]
OK, it is in fact a terrible name. Anyway, our blog is finally here! Why does the Lamboratory need a blog? Well, we thought it was the best way to keep the site actualized with the news we may have, as long as we are getting lazier to modify it. We don’t promise to post […]