WordPress Gallery

During my efforts to combine Rita’s website to wordpress and with a cool gallery I came up with a few problems. Mainly because the top navigation bar was built using J-Query, which I’ve already made quite some time ago, and even after switching to mootools I didn’t want to be rebuilding it again. So yesterday after a few searches I managed to install NextGen gallery plugin for wordpress and using LightBox for popups....

April 22, 2009 · 1 min · 100 words · David Amador

Make a Game Week

I work on a game creation company and this week the administration decided to give us a challenge, to make a game. Using whatever tools we want to whatever platform we like. After we got divided between 4 teams the challenge was to make every minute count. My team got composed by me (programmer), a designer and a person from man resources. Of course I was going to handle every bit of code, the designer the art and the third person the level design and documentation....

March 13, 2009 · 1 min · 139 words · David Amador

Window of Opportunity

I started watching Stargate SG-1 on the beginning of this year, I’ve already had seen Season one, but it was almost 10 years ago so I decided to see from start. I’m in the middle of season 4 and last weekend I saw what may well be the most funny episode of all, Window of Opportunity. On this episode O’Neill and Teal’c get trapped on an endless loop, were events keep repeating themselves so, without any consequences to think on they decided to take the best of that time....

February 24, 2009 · 1 min · 100 words · David Amador

Tech Talk: Linus Torvalds On Git

I recently found that there is a subversion alternative surfacing that is in many ways much better that subversion, it name is Git and it’s a creation of Linus Torvalds. Here’s a video of him talking about it

February 3, 2009 · 1 min · 38 words · David Amador

How to Enable or Disable Quick Launch Bar Toolbar in Windows 7

Quick Launch Bar is slowly being deprecated. It wasn’t enable by default on windows Vista and on the new Windows 7 (build 7000 for me) it isn’t even available on the toolbars list as the whole Taskbar been replaced with a new and enhanced one, which now allows shortcut icons to be placed on it directly. For users, like myself who miss Quick Launch bar here’s a how to enable it:...

January 23, 2009 · 2 min · 356 words · David Amador