Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 24th, 2008 No Comments »
My colleague and friend Andrew Abela recently published a book on the Extreme Presentation method.
I have attended his seminars, and definitely recommend his method. For anyone interested in improving their presentation skills, and generating action out of their presentations, it is must-read.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 19th, 2008 No Comments »
As every week I end up receiving at lest one junkchart specimen, I’m starting the Extreme Makeover: Chart Edition series. I’ll show the old chart, the proposed improvement, and why I believe the old one doesn’t work. I’d love to hear your comments as well.
Here it goes:
And the makeover:
Problems:
Vertical labels: Even when the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 16th, 2007 No Comments »
We are thrilled to announce the birth of our second son, Santiago Méndez. He was born today (8/16) at 2:22PM, and is 7 pounds 2 ounces, and 20 inches long. See some pictures here
During the next few weeks expect scarce new activity
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 5th, 2007 No Comments »
My apologies to those of you looking content in the website, like some of the scripts and screencasts. The website was compromised and I had to take it offline for a few days. Some links will still be broken, but will be corrected soon.
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 3rd, 2007 No Comments »
I’ve been actively setting up the site for the new service company I’m starting: 8020world.com, so posting here on my personal site has been scarce.
During the setup of the fulfillment portion of the new site, I found good instructions on valibuk.net that saved me some time, as they match exactly my setup: Rails, Capistrano, [...]
Posted in Geeky stuff, Uncategorized on Oct 12th, 2006 No Comments »
This is just a note to self, but I seem to forget all the time. xfontsel lists only bitmapped fonts. To see the TrueType/Freetype fonts installed, the command is fc-list
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 7th, 2006 No Comments »
This site (a hosting company in Brazil) has some interesting ideas I’d like to look into with more detail. One is the floating support ribbon (top right), which seems inobtrusive but effective to keep information handy for the site users. Not to overuse, of course, but for something like that “click me if [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 21st, 2006 No Comments »
Acabo de ver que Discos Fuentes tiene un website con un monton de CDs de chucuchucu y karaoke de musica de planchar… cool
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