Juan Céspedes - Blog 

Well, I finally managed to automate the publishing of my pictures, and all the pictures from march to June 2010 are already online.

Moreover, the Photolog is growing and growing... I have 32 entries right now and my idea is to have one or two entries per week

From 1998 to 2000, I have participated in a few programming contests, such as the yearly ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest and CUPCAM.

Many of the problems proposed for such contests have been recopilated by the University of Valladolid; Ciriaco García de Celis created an Online Judge where everybody could be able to submit solutions, and the system tells them if they are correct or not.

As of today, there are 2694 problems, and I have solved 90 of them. And today I am publishing my solutions here.

I have been working for the last few days in improving my web pages (www.cespedes.org and juancespedes.es), specifically the blog and pictures parts (in fact, I have removed all the other parts).

Regarding the blog, well, it is now a real blog :-). I can add entries (like this one) and edit previous ones from a web browser. All the entries are stored in a PostgreSQL database. Every entry has its own, permanent link. People can add comments, and all of them are visible from the permalink in each page.

Regarding the pictures, I have simplified the URLs used to navigate throw them, in order to speed up navigation and to help the web crawlers. The list of all the pictures (more than 64,000) are also stored in the database, and I have added captions to the pictures with localization (in order to show different things in Spanish and in English), and I have created labels to tag each picture.

To-Do list: improve/automate the way I upload pictures, store and show scanned images, crop/rotate pictures, create albums, save list of people in each picture, show Exif information, save the place where each picture was taken...

Many weeks after its launch, I finally managed to make someone invite me to an account in gmail.

Marielle Fois was the one who sent the invitation to me. Thank you, Marielle :-)

I'm getting sick of having to deal with so many different things, doing nothing in particular. I hope my work at the company will finish soon. I want to get free!

I spent most of the day redesigning and writting my new home page.

It is XHTML 1.1 Strict compliant and CSS compliant, and it is finally integrating my (several) other pages, such as my pictures page and my blog (yes, *this* blog ;-)), but it isn't quite finished yet.

Until now, I had a small problem with blosxom... the timezome wasn't set correctly.

Given that it is written in Perl, I spent several hours to debug it :-(

A few hours ago, Amaya invited me to join a new "online community" called orkut. I did it, and I must say that it is very interesting. It has a lot of members and it is growing at a very impressive rate. If you still don't know what I am talking about, ask me or find someone else who is already an orkut member; there is currently no way to join the community without being invited from someone inside it).

If you are inside orkut, this is a link to my profile.

I finally managed to install a weblog that suits my needs.

It is called blosxom, and it is really easy to install and set up.

And now, let's see if I am able to go on writing stories...