Nokia’s N97 has just been released!

With its features you end up really wandering why to buy a netbook if you can get one of these.
Here you have a video showing it off:

Since a while ago I started a project with friends to develop an Open Source group/project management tool with the best web framework out there - Django!

Today is the day! Rancho 0.1 alpha is out!!!

Rancho goal is to make it easy for any company or group of people to manage its projects and people.
Here are some of Rancho’s feature:

• Clear and simple graphical user interface
• Wikiboards that provide collaborative editors that also keep old versions
• Exportation of wikiboards to several formats like PDF or HTML
• Multi-lingual
• Companies to group people
• Threaded messages
• ToDo lists
• Milestone lists
• Files with support for versions
• Simple users management
• E-mail notifications for actions within the projects
• Statistics of every item in every project
• Powerful permissions system

Go ahead and download Rancho from here or try a running demo here. Both the user name and password are ‘admin’.

In case you like Rancho, give us a hand and help us translating Rancho to your language.

For this or for questions, feedback, etc, please write to us using the contact form here.

Have fun with Rancho!

Today I finally installed the latest Ubuntu. I’m saying finally because since last February I didn’t install or upgrade anything… back then I was working in Seville and the internet connection at my place was crappy.

The new Ubuntu seems nice (as always) to me, a little slowlier than the 7.10 I used but not a real problem.

I still remember my Debian days, kernel compiling, always funny. Wireless fighting (not really good drivers and managers back then), interesting stuff and of course, telling my girlfriend: Uh, well, we cannot realy watch that movie right now cause I kinda screwed up the graphical environment…

To all the people behind Ubuntu and Debian, keep on, you’re doing a really good job as always!

Ubuntu 8.10 was released today!

Check out the new features and download this new version.

One of the things I like to do the most is to create graphical user interfaces (and I referring more to desktop programming here than web).
Not just the design but the whole stuff. It is the way you have in programming to transform something complex in an easy and pleasant tool to use.

We all know how to do some scratches in a paper to come up with the looks for a new interface. Some time ago I was told about paper prototyping and it is a nice, fast and easy way for testing an interface for usability.

Here are some images and a book about the subject. This article is also pretty good and you can find a number of videos of people demonstrating how it’s done on YouTube.

Give your shot on paper prototyping!