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		<title>Call for free with Simyo is improving a lot!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2008 08:15:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Grajal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Simyo&#8217;s contest was supposed to finish last Tuesday but the organizers decided to give the developers an extra week. I complained a bit because they destroyed my vacations, but I realize soon after that it was going to be good to have an extra week to improve the application.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.bullsmind.com/facebook/facebook-application-for-simyo-developers-competition/">Simyo&#8217;s contest </a>was supposed to finish last Tuesday but the organizers decided to give the developers an extra week. I complained a bit because they destroyed my vacations, but I realize soon after that it was going to be good to have an extra week to improve the application.</p>
<p>What had the application improved this last week?</p>
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<li><strong>Better architecture</strong>. I split the web frontend (the web application you can see on facebook) completely of the VoIP backend (the call manager) on two different servers running on different locations. <strong>Now the application is ready to scale</strong>.</li>
<li><strong>Way better sound quality.</strong> AMG (a local network service provider) lent me a provisional SIP account, more than enough to improve 1000% call&#8217;s reliability and sound quality. <em>I need more accounts for reliability reasons, though, is someone interested?</em></li>
<li><strong>Completely new user interface. </strong>Polished, a lot more integrated on facebook, making use of <em>facebook</em> widgets. <strong>A long way to go, though, but a lot better than the pre-release version you could saw on video last week.</strong> Now it&#8217;s time for user usability reporting and web2.0 effects <img src='http://www.bullsmind.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </li>
<li><strong>Multilingual. </strong>The application works, so what is the reason to reduce their commercial potential focusing only on the Spanish market? <strong>No reason. </strong>As <em>facebook</em> didn&#8217;t provide yet the multilingual capabilities I designed the application to understand Spanish and English, and Vasque, French and German translations are coming soon. <em>Catalian anyone?</em></li>
<li><strong>Developer corner.</strong> I&#8217;m the only one developer but I like to work on a complete environment. Nowadays the application had a subversion repository, a wiki with my last thoughts and documentation and a bug reporting software for me and betatesters (some techie friends)</li>
<li><strong>Bugfixing.</strong> Lots and lots of bugs had been resolved, and lots of new ones are being fixed every single day.</li>
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<p>I continue to have ideas to improve the functionality or reliability of the application. I&#8217;m thinking in several cool improvements. I don&#8217;t know if the application will be ready to enter an open beta state on time (maybe by the middle of next week?) but for sure at the beginning it will have less functionality than other VoIP applications.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t complain! It&#8217;s working, it&#8217;s a complex system with lots of components and has been programmed on a garage <img src='http://www.bullsmind.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>Puppy Linux</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:21:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Grajal</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[linux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[linux distro web]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was searching a long time for a small, but complete and easy to use operative system to carry on an USB flash drive. Yesterday I tested puppy linux. Puppy is one of the hundreds of different minidistros but this flavour has something special. It&#8217;s frightening fast! The secret of the speed of puppy linux [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was searching a long time for a small, but complete and easy to use operative system to carry on an USB flash drive. Yesterday I tested puppy linux. Puppy is one of the hundreds of different minidistros but this flavour has something special. <strong>It&#8217;s frightening fast! </strong>The secret of the speed of puppy linux is that is a really small distro (60Mb) and it&#8217;s completely loaded to RAM when the system starts.</p>
<p>The result is that when the desktop finish loading, the applications open instantly. <strong>I&#8217;ve never used a desktop as responsible as puppy linux</strong>. It remembers me when I tested BeOS. ¿Circa 2001? Anyway, seems like an eternity from now. It&#8217;s really easy to use and I think is a good software for schools, because they will be able to recycle old computers and because is super simple and it just works!</p>
<p><strong>It&#8217;s a really cool and useful operative system</strong>. For normal people is not only as a curiosity, it&#8217;s a tool easy to use and with all the software they can need. For the techies is interesting because it&#8217;s small and fast and has details as coming with strong encryption by default. Besides, as my main tool is the browser, this distro has basically 90% of the software I need using only 60MB.</p>
<p>The only thing I dislike is the website. It&#8217;s retro but I don&#8217;t think that on purpose.<br />
<em>Appear to be designed by and engineer!</em> <img src='http://www.bullsmind.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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