India

I’ve been in India this week, and haven’t had much time to update the blog. I was in Mumbai until yesterday, and today I’m in Hyderabad. A gallery of the current pictures I’ve collected so far is here.
It’s been a great trip. Everybody is very friendly here, and we had a chance to visit a [...]

Usability matters

At work, I spend a lot of time talking about usability, and often find that people think I’m just talking about the aesthetics of a particular application. Usability is much more than that. At its essence, it’s a way to ensure that a product is really solving the needs of its intended users, in [...]

新年快乐 (Happy New Year)

We went to a local grocery store here in Tampa to celebrate the Chinese New Year with some good friends. I posted pictures of the event in the gallery.

Calgary photo album

Uploaded some of my pictures from my recent trip to Calgary. Unfortunately, I didn’t have much time to look around the city, so the selection is pretty limited. I was able to go skiing at the Olympic Park on the last night I was there, but aside from that, most of my time was spent [...]

I’m freezing

I’ve been working in Calgary this week, and boy is it cold, specially if you come from Florida. I’m almost done with my assignment here, and looking forward to seeing my girls on Saturday.

¡Viva Piñata! (Update)

The birthday party was last Sunday, and I finished the pinata the day before. This one didn’t turn out to be that difficult, and the way I did the rope finally worked so the pinata didn’t fall like it has in the past.
Only problem, I put too many layers! So the kids couldn’t break [...]

Game programming under 4096 bytes

So this year I decided to give the Java 4K programming contest a try. I’ve been learning some Flash game programming techniques lately, but decided it be fun to try to create a little retro game with the same code size as some of the old classics (Space Invaders, Asteroids).
So far, it looks like [...]