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Creating QR Codes with Google Charts API

As simple as a URL: http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=qr&chs=250×250&chl=http://dev.enekoalonso.com

Performance matters

I just read this on an email from a Google’s Closure developer: Adding runtime checks for invalid usage is something we have policy against. It adds to the code size as well as to the runtime cost. I totally agree. Developers should be responsible for their usage of APIs or third party libraries, while these [...]

Awesome! Dinner for Spanish developers at Google IO 2010

Great news. Google will be sponsoring a dinner for all Spanish developers at Google IO 2010: http://programa-con-google.blogspot.com/2010/05/vienes-al-google-i0.html We will be driving from SLO on Tuesday afternoon, but I’m not sure we would get there by 8pm. I really hope I can make it!

Tech talks at LEVEL Studios

Today we have a Tech Meeting at LEVEL Studios and I’ll be doing a quick demo of some tools we have been using in our current project, to help during our development: Using Closure Compiler to detect Javascript syntax errors and remove warnings. Using QUnit to test a REST api The power of WebSockets and [...]

My Google IO 2010 Schedule

The schedule for Google IO 2010 has been published. I am going through the list of talks thinking on which ones I am more interested, and here are my candidates so far: Wednesday May 19 10:45am – Opening up Closure Library 12:30pm – Beyond JavaScript: programming the web with native code 1:45pm – Map once, [...]

More updates to Mooml coming soon

I’ve been very busy lately, both with spaniards.es and at work. Too much stuff to do. Nevertheless, I’ve been working lately on a version of Mooml that does not rely on with/eval. The problem of using eval (which has bad reputation but is used every time we parse JSON -unless you use this- or load [...]

Google Fiber in San Luis Obispo? That would be awesome!

It looks like the nomination for San Luis Obispo to get Google Fiber is gaining a lot of support. I have no idea how other cities or communities are doing, but here at SLO seems like a lot of people is getting involved. Having Google Fiber in San Luis Obispo would be awesome. There is [...]

Dojo y yo

Back in November 2008 I had a chance to work with Dojo on a project for Cisco WebEx. I didn’t like it at all. I was used to the simplicity of jQuery and Mootools and I couldn’t understand how Dojo had been designed so complicated. Well, one year later I just realized that it is [...]

Things to do

To do list: Try Appcelerator (downloaded.. don’t like it very much, have to spend more time with it) Install iPhone SDK 3.2 (downloading installing…) Study LinkedIn API Study Twitter API Take a look at YQL Play with Google Closure JS library Play with Dojo JS library That’s it for now. Let’s see if I can [...]

iPhone 3.0 geolocation with Javascript

I was watching one of the video tutorials from Apple last night about some custom JS available on Safari, only on the iPhone 3.0, that let’s you interact with the phone and obtain data like the current location, etc. So I built a little page to see how it works. I included Mootools 1.2.3 from [...]

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Eneko Alonso is a software engineer and UI developer with more than eight years of experience in software and web development. He lives in San Luis Obispo, California and works at LEVEL Studios.

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