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We are having some monthly front-end developer presentations at work.

We are only two front-end guys for more than a dozen of back-end developers. The goal of this is to share what us, the front-end developers know so the back-end developers can ease our work using the best practice when delivering HTML code.

Usually the role of the back-end guy will be to produce eventually some HTML so the front-end guy can use it and make it shiny to the designer requirements.

The technologies involved in our projects are Liferay (a portal management system) and some non-web friendly language: Java. The development process with those heavy and old technos makes everything longer, tedious and not front end developer friendly.
I still don’t understand this choice of techno. So don’t count on me to cheer those up.

This is why purity of HTML code is a big added value when dealing with those rigid technos: we spend more time coding and less tine deploying, configuring, resetting, redeploying, updating, tweaking, compiling, rebooting, switching enviros,

Anyway I just wanted to share the powerpoints I made so far, do not expect very high level of frontend knowledge here, its mostly for the back-end guys.

1 – HTML 101 (34 KB):
This presentation was a basic HTML lesson so developers and content editors can avoid making mistakes and if needed write good HTML code.

Presented:  Semantic HTML Do and Don’t

2 – Advanced CSS Techniques (256 KB):
This presentation aims to leverage the CSS knowledge of developers so they can avoid using too much markup and they can use the potential of CSS.

Presented: CSS Sprites, The plus “+”  CSS selector, The overflow trick for floating boxes issue.

Delirium Tremens-en abesti batean bezala - Delirium Tremens – Juan II – oraingoan bakarrik hiri haundi huntan geratzen naiz. Bi urte baino guttiago pasa ditut hemen orain arte, bakardade pixka bat senti banuen ere oraingoan askoz haundiagoa da.

Ez naiz usu neskarik gabe egon. Egia erran, neskalagun batekin munduaren bestaldan bizi berri bat hastea bakarrik hasi baino errexagoa dela. Neska hura hangoa baldin bada, askoz hobeto.

Harremanetan gertatzen girelarik sozial edo laguntasun mailan ez dugu hainbeste lanik egiten et neskaren lagunak zure lagunak bihurtzen baina zuk lagunik ez egiten, beharra ez delako senditzen. Oraingoan lankide pare bat aparte, jende gutti ezagutzen ditut eta ezagutzen baditut ere ez diat jendeen topatzako emeiarik ere.

Neskaz beti inguratua izan naiz, biziki inguratua. Neskalagun bat edo bi denbora berean ez zen arraroa eta erres ibiltzen nintzan beste sexuarekin. Baina bi urteko harreman sano bat ta gero, nik bakarrik izaitea erabaki badut ere, zaila egiten zait nere baitari konfiantza emaitea.

Denborak bere lana egingo du dudarik gabe, oraingoan zaila baldin bada ere, ez naiz geroaren beldur, eta azken finean esperientzia nolazpait gozatzen dut.

I have just received a new toy, after those long labour hours I have been doing last days, better say weeks, no, better say month I treated myself with an HTC Desire, one of the best mobile phones so far.
This phone will replace my yet working phone and be used as an mp3 player since mine was stolen few month ago. I decided not to download a single mp3  and use Spotify instead.

I was a bit disappointed about the installation since it’s a Honky version its of course in English but has some nasty Chinese writing options nagging me. And no way to uninstall those embedded apps. Im getting used to it but once i will have my Desire rooted I might be able to get rid of it.

It’s overall a perfect phone the screen definition its amazing, AMOLED 480×800. The HTC Sense UI just smooth and slick. Even though I can’t compare it with a native Android phone since here in Australia, everybody has an IPhone, and i’m the only one I know with such an operation system as a phone.

In the other hand there is major issue with this OS, a shameful issue:

There is no way to configure a proxy alongside the wi-fi connection, in other words no way to configure a proxy system wise ( http_proxy ). What a shame for an so called enterprise ready handset.  In our office we need to go through a proxy if we want to access the Internet, so do heaps of companies. So at work there is no way i can connect my phone to the network.

Google hasn’t added this feature on the latest Android version 2.2 and is not ready to implement it in further release. Even more lame, the Android 1.5 ad 1.6 have this feature enabled.

After spending hours reading boards, I couldn’t find a suitable solution.

Anyway, I’m stubborn and patient and wanted to have Spotify working, so I can sync my offline music at home. I went for a Premium account on Spotify,  managed to get Spotify installed on  my phone (couldn’t find it in the app market, maybe because I’m not using a European IP).

But guess what? No proxy setting on the app!
I went browsing on the phone’s SD card, and opened a file named settings on Spotify’s folder.

I found some interesting infos there :

{“autologin_username”:”myusername”,
“proxy_pass”:”",”realtime_clock_delta”:-4}

This is a nice JSON data with some config settings.

I went to my work’s computer to find this Spotify’s setting file, and since I’m using the same network I copied over some directives :

{“autologin_username”:”myusername”,
“proxy”:”myproxyhost:port@https”,
“proxy_mode”:2,
“proxy_pass”:”some crypted chars here”,
“realtime_clock_delta”:-4}

Unplugged the usb cable, opened Spotify, et voila! Spotify is connecting through the company’s proxy !

I had a good surprise this afternoon figuring out that 2 ‘new’ albums of Soziedad Alkoholika have been added on Spotify.

Intoxikazion Etilika their first album (1990) and Ratas (1995), my 2 favorite albums.

Intoxikazion Etilika is a very dark punky hadcore album, the guitar riffs are just complex and powerful enough. The sound is not the top of the pop, yeah it was 1990, color tvs were almost everywhere, but something was missing, the drum/guitar sync is not always fine but all this crap bring something authentic, warm and un forgetable.

Ratas is for me one of the best albums, more modern than the one above, i can tell that they started to listen to some other californian and radio punk at this time. All the somgs are happy, major tuned, fast paced full of energy. Some funny samples in between song have been added.

So many souvenirs are rushing into my mind when I’m listening to those Basques from Gasteiz.

They have been quite lazy lately, in a way they always been lazy.

Can’t count how many concert the cancelled in the last minute for some obscure reasons. Of course I’m not talking of the censorship they have been through preventing them to play in heaps of places in Spain.

Indeed, the Spanish government alleged the band to be too close from ETA. For them every Basque and friends of Basques are terrorists. Ah, I forgot to say that Spain still use torture in their prisons, especially with Basques.

Anyway, the last 2 albums were too easy for me, not many work put in song strutures and riffs. Couldn’t find this pseudo-easy songs that used to be so recognisable.

They very last album is not even a new album, they just took all songs, and replayed again slightly re-arranged with modern recording techniques, what a shame!

Even though they mostly sing in Spanish some of the songs are in Euskara (Basque language).

They usually  spell the names of their song in the Basque way avoiding the non-Basque letters such as q, c, w, v.

As an Euskaldun (Someone who knows Basque language), I always welcomed bands form Basque Country singing French, Spanish or even English.
Unfortunately in Iparralde (northern Basque Country) when you are an Euskaldun and you are cocky enough to sing French or English you might get yourself a one-way ticket out of the Basque speaking community.

I think this is very sad to be that close minded. But, for some reason I will explain someday here, I can understand since Euskara is still in danger of vanishing.

Hi dear Reader,

This is the fist article published on my blog, I will talk about professional and personal topics.

I have always been reluctant to maintain a blog, this requires a lot of time, and ideas. Even harder, remember the idea you had last Saturday about something awesome that you want to tell all the world about, you forgot the next day.

Even though I’ve been working in the first blog publishing platform in France, I’ve never been interested on telling my life to the people I know or complete strangers. Worst, all my initiatives to start a blog ended up after writing an article and removing this later one few days later.
Why? you will ask me. Well, I change my state of mind and my way of thinking every couple of hours so I might get back to what I wrote and remove or edit content to edit my thoughts.

Hum, strange how this article sounds like every other article I’ve been writing.

Ok, so I’ll make it better this time, let’s don’t publish this and start to write another one!