June 2008 - Artículos

'Selectividad' passed!!!!

Published 30/6/2008 19:23 | Eugenio Estrada

Today, I got the 'selectividad' exams qualifications. The summary is the following: ‘Bachillerato’ average: 7.1 ‘Selectividad’: 4.67 Spanish language: 5.50 Galician language: 5.50 Philosophy: 8.0 English language: 3.50 Maths: 4.50 Physic: 0.50 Technical drawing: 8.50 The final average is 6.13 http://eugenioestrada.es/blog

Archivado en: personal

My Geeks.ms anniversary!!!!

Published 27/6/2008 10:07 | Eugenio Estrada

Two years ago on 26th June, I got this blog by Rodrigo Corral. Many time have been left out. I’m writing in English about technology and general programming now, furthermore I don’t forget .NET, my passion. Happy geeksanniversary!

Archivado en: Geeks.ms

How to change the UICulture in an ASP.NET Page

Published 26/6/2008 20:56 | Eugenio Estrada

Sometimes, we’d stored a cookie with the user language preference. But, the fact of change the Page.UICulture don’t have any resoult. To changed this property we should do it inside the InitializeCulture Page method and override it. Imagine that the cookie is called “lang”: protected override void InitializeCulture() {     if (Request.Cookies[ "lang" ] != null )     {         if (Request.Cookies[ "lang" ].Value ...

Archivado en: ASP.NET

Silverlight Encryption

Published 22/6/2008 23:56 | Eugenio Estrada

I wanna recommend you three posts about encryption with Silverlight. When we store in the Isolated Store, that you don’t want to leave it in clear is possible. So, we should encrypt it. The System.Security.Cryptography is the namespaced that we must use. They explain how to encrypt/decrypt, generate and store the key,... You can read it in the following links: Silverlight Encryption (Part 1) Silverlight Encryption (Part 2) - Generating the key Silverlight Encryption (Part 3) I hope they are interesting...

Curious fact: Last WLW release's version number

Published 16/6/2008 0:07 | Eugenio Estrada

I just write about a new Windows Live Writer CTP , what i’m using now to post this entry. The lastest stable WLW version is 12.0.1366.1026. We could imagine the new preview build version number is 13.0.xxx.xxx. But the WLW Team have decided the new release (Windows Live Writer 2009?) major version is 14.0.3913.522. I don’t sure about the reason, but I supose that superstition is one. What do you think? http://eugenioestrada.es/blog

Archivado en: Windows Live,curiosity

Windows Live Writer CTP

Published 15/6/2008 22:09 | Eugenio Estrada

A new Windows Live Writer just be released by Windows Live Team. We're using this blogging tool since the first CTP realeases. Now, this version has new interesant features: Video and Image Publishing Enhancements Upload videos to Soapbox Image cropping and tilting Additional border styles (reflection!) Support for LightBox and other image previewing effects (like Slimbox, Smoothbox, and others) Support for centering images Editing Enhancements Auto Linking Smart quotes/typographic characters...

Archivado en: Windows Live,preview releases

Opinión: Hablemos del software libre

Published 13/6/2008 23:47 | Eugenio Estrada

Tengo ciertos proyectos en mente, relacionados con el software libre. Lo que me llevado a escribir mi opinión sobre ello, con lo que haré una excepción en mi tendencia a escribir en inglés. Para lo cual quiero comenzar con una cita de uno de los grandes (por no decir el más grande) del software libre, Richard Stallman, fundador de la Free Software Foundation. No me disgusta que se copie un programa en contra de la ley de otro país, porque lo que es ilegítimo es la ley, no la copia. Romper una ley...

Firefox 3 will be released on 17th June

Published 12/6/2008 10:42 | Eugenio Estrada

The web browsers war continue. Mozilla are developing Firefox 3 (aka Firefox Paradiso) for 36 mounths. Microsoft published the first IE 8 beta and the next beta version're being developed. Opera Software've published the Opera 9.5 release candidate. Moreover, Apple're compiling Safari on Windows since November 2007. Security, standards (like HTML 5*), UX or speed are some features the new browsers are includeing. The third Firefox version's going to be released on Tuesday 17th June...

Important Python features to students (I)

Published 5/6/2008 20:54 | Eugenio Estrada

When you’re learning to code, you must to understand many terms (like class, variable, object, etc.). Especially when we’re focused in an object oriented language. Knowing these concepts isn’t needed for starting to code with Python. It has some features which help to students, those with an excellent math base. The knowledge curve is faster, so we can could with interactive sessions to learn the Python syntax and later we could make complete programs with advanced logic structures and expressions...

Archivado en: Python

Welcome to my blog changes

Published 4/6/2008 21:07 | Eugenio Estrada

Some people was expecting my return to come back to this community. Now, I'm coming back with lots of changes in my blog. On one hand, now I'm going to publish my entries in English. You will agree with me in the fact that English is the most common language in computing wolrd. On the other hand, my blog is becoming a general blog about developerment. It will be focused on new students who want to start coding. After trying to teach coding to some people with various languages, now I think...

Archivado en: General