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Rodrigo’s blog.

Sunday, January 20, 2013

Adobe Source Code Pro font

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I’ve just downloaded the new open source monospaced font from Adobe: Source Code Pro . I’m using it at 9pt size on Windows, and it has the ...
Wednesday, January 16, 2013

jQuery with requestAnimationFrame

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The requestAnimationFrame specification is being cooked to replace the over-used setTimeout call when doing JavaScript animations. By spec...
Saturday, January 12, 2013

R.I.P. victims of the loudness wars

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Terribly mixed, brickwalled, clipped everywhere, static noise, ears bleeding, the horror... loudness wars victims. As an audiophile, it dee...
Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Blurry fonts on Firefox 18

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Firefox is the browser which behavior I like most, but it’s seriously becoming a pain to use, version after version. I’ve just upgraded my F...
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Sunday, December 2, 2012

Automation for C++ COM pointers

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This week I was working on a C++ program which used a lot of COM pointers . I remembered I’ve seen an automation class somewhere, and after ...
Tuesday, November 27, 2012

HTML DTD: strict vs loose

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I’ve been writing some HTML5 code lately, and at some point I faced some miscalculations of dimensions through CSS. After some research, I ...
Friday, November 23, 2012

A JavaScript and HTML5 tree graph

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Following the previous post , I needed a graphical representation of a tree graph to put on an HTML page. I thought it would be a great opp...
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Monday, November 12, 2012

A jQuery popup modal dialog

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These days I needed to display a form in HTML. The simplest way to do this would be just go to another page, where the form would be display...
Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Singly linked list in C++

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These days I needed a clean implementation of a singly linked list in C++. I found some ones around, but none of them was functional and cl...
Friday, July 27, 2012

Bringing back the favicon on Firefox 14

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On its way to chromify Firefox, Mozilla removed the favicon from the URL bar on Firefox 14. I agree with their reason, saying that one coul...
Thursday, July 5, 2012

A trick to auto hide Chrome download bar

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If you make a quick search, you’ll find how many people are annoyed by Chrome’s download bar, which doesn’t hide itself automatically, and r...
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Sunday, June 17, 2012

Linus Torvalds is my hero

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I’m a big fan of Linus Torvalds , not only for what he did with Linux, but also for his figure, particularly his lack of tenderness. His tho...
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