Month: 18 years ago

Web

Adding Captcha to your Pebble blog

I started getting some spam comments on my blog a couple of weeks ago, at a steady increasing rate, which was getting very annoying. Fortunately, I found a very simple way to add captcha validation to the add comments form. Unfortunately, Glen’s solution involved patching the original pebble source and redeploying pebble. There is a […]

Guillermo Castro 
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Craving for some Sushi

I love food. In general. I can enjoy a good Prime Rib as much as I can enjoy a BigMac (well, maybe not as much, but you get the idea). I try to eat new things whenever I have the chance. Since I was a kid, my parents taught me that there are so many […]

Guillermo Castro 
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Optimizing Oracle SQL

I just finished a 4-day training course entitled Optimizing Oracle SQL, imparted by Karen Morton from Hotsos. I must say I was really impressed with the course, as it gives you a very detailed account of how Oracle works, thus enabling you to analyze what’s going on with your queries and, if needed, rewrite them […]

Guillermo Castro 
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The Perfect Gift For a Geek

My birthday is coming in less than one month, so I started thinking, what would be the ideal gift for geek guy like I? (There’s already a special present coming my way, but that will take a little more time). So, without further ado, here’s the list of what I would consider the perfect birthday […]

Guillermo Castro 
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Where does Microsoft want to take you today?

Some time ago, I dediced to ditch Windows because I got a weird experience with it (unfortunately, I haven’t imported my old postings yet). Basically, I left my laptop on during one night and when I looked at it the next day, the machine had cleanly rebooted after installing a patch from Microsoft. I didn’t […]

Guillermo Castro 
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Reliability of Web 2.0 services

How much do you (or your business) rely on external applications to go about your everyday business? When something goes wrong, who do you blame, how do you get it fixed and what amount of leverage do you have to get your issues resolved? It seems that one of the proposals for the new Web […]

Guillermo Castro