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Life achievements: It’s never too late

Gabriel Saldaña — Mon, 13 May 2013 21:43:23 +0000

Nowadays is more common to hear stories about people getting rich and accomplishing great things at an early age. Fortunately, there is the other side of the coin. Not everything is lost if you’re not a millionaire by 30, or accomplished something important. Recently the media published a story of the 17 year old who [...]

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Easy guide to protect your personal information privacy with encryption

Gabriel Saldaña — Fri, 10 May 2013 19:00:12 +0000

Political scandals have always been about leaked information. Don’t you wonder why sensitive data has been passed around in clear text on the leaked cables that Wikileaks has been making public, while your latest SpongeBob Blu-ray or DVD disc is encrypted with DRM locks and transactions like your book purchase at Amazon is secured and [...]

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Quick and Honest Guide to Creative Commons Licenses

Gabriel Saldaña — Mon, 06 May 2013 22:26:50 +0000

In a way, the best way to fight piracy is by making it impossible for people to do illegal things with your works. Zacqary Adam Green came up with this handy guide to Creative Commons for his article on copyright reform. Funny as it may seem, it is a very practical and straight-to-the-point analysis of [...]

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PHP Debugging with Xdebug

Gabriel Saldaña — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 18:00:00 +0000

Web development with PHP can get frustrating without the adequate tools. The most common thing a new web developer does when attempting PHP debugging is to add var_dump() calls to print out the value of a variable at a certain point in the program’s execution, in conjunction with an exit() or die() call. Doing this [...]

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A town in Mexico called Tequila

Gabriel Saldaña — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:00:00 +0000

As I’ve mentioned before, there are a lot of nice places to visit around Guadalajara city. One of those places is a town called Tequila. It is the place where almost all of the world’s Tequila production is made and where the drink got its name. There are two ways to get to Tequila. The [...]

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