How our mobile app, built in 24 hours, got a 2nd place and what we could've done even better.
In 2013 a bank in Portugal named BPI organized a contest called BPI Appy Day where 400 teams of up to 4 players tried to create a mobile app in 24 …
I recently migrated all my projects from MySQL to Postgresql. These are just some notes to serve as memory aids for me.
I'll keep adding things as I need to recall them.
| MySQL | PostgreSQL |
|---|---|
| show tables | \dt; |
| use *db* | \c *db* |
| show columns from *table* | \d *table* |
To the kid who asked me about programming languages...
Yesterday, at a barbecue party I met a kid who was very interested in programming. He had been learning about programming languages through the internet and was very interested in the subject and about good practices of programming, the different programming …
TL;DR: It's awesome and I love it!
Amazon had been making fun of me. For a while they sent me promotional emails about the new Kindle Paperwhite. They would let me add it to the shopping cart just to end up telling me that unfortunely some items can't be …
Image manipulation is cool: you can see the result. And people generally like to somehow enhance their pictures. Instagram is now a standard, but before it people were already altering photos to …
WinDBG is the debugger for Microsoft Windows. If you don't believe me, just ask any of Microsoft's support escalation engineers. It is extremely powerful but has a very steep learning curve, so usually it's used only when Visual Studio isn't up for the job.
Often you …