I must admit that it was someone that pointed me to the difference between a ‘manager’ and a ‘jefe’, and then I realized that in Spain traditionally it’s all been about ‘begin a boss’, more than actually managing or, you know, working. Since I can’t for the life of me figure out who I heard it from, it will have to go unacknowledged.
But really, if your boss refers to him or herself as ‘boss’, you know things are not right. That ‘I HEART BOSS’ mug he bought himself isn’t a good indicator either.
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Wow it’s been a month since last comic. I apologize… my list of comic ideas is overflowing so the only problem here is my laziness (ok and finishing a product that took forever). You could actually like the facebook page to get updates.
Anyhow, there you have it. Every now and then I see this: good programmers, good coders, designers, testers, they are all too busy to sit down and define ‘guidelines’. They do manage to transmit them to each other so the structure kind of works.
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That nagging voice in the back of your mind that you so clearly can hear when your experts are giving a talk? Listen to it.
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I don’t see anything wrong with this behaviour.
(more...)Multilanguage, or SE HABLA ESPAÑOL 2012-08-05
Well, well, well… I finally used the multilanguage support I added long ago. In essence it detects the language you are using and displays images or text based on that. Today I translated the latest Paul the innovator comic to test this feature.
The trick is doing this all in one site without changing URLs so that the facebooks and googles of the world can see just one site. Hope it didn’t break anything, let me know if it did.
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Paul the innovator (37): The bonus pot 2012-07-14
I’m scared to find out just how much of this is actually true.
(more...)Facebook thumbnails 2012-06-24
A short post for the benefit of those struggling with this as I was: the little parser that Facebook uses when you share a link is insane, don’t trust it.
That parser is what creates thumbnails for links shared in Facebook. It reads the contents of a page and allows you to choose an image. The problem is that more often than not, it can’t find the images. It’s got a lot of limitations: image size, image position in the document and it also has a tendency to just randomly stop working.
(more...)Paul the innovator (36): Art and design 2012-06-24
I think that ‘Eagles don’t flock’ is an example of hypocatastasis and not a metaphor. I thought I should mention it, because you were most probably thinking the same.
Also, all I know about art school life comes from Daniel Clowes comics.
(more...)Some changes to the site: links to the archives (yes up there near that little monkey) and horrid Facebook and Twitter Like buttons. Upgraded the comment system and now every post shows as ‘0 comments’ even if there are comments, but too tired to worry about that now… Fixed now.
But the most interesting bit is that I added hi-res comics in the Paul series and the header logos. This means that if you have a retina display (iPad or iPhone 4), you will see much crisper and detailed comics. All of that thanks to me using Inkscape from the start, which uses vector graphics.
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