danirus: independent software engineer

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G Projects I am working on
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Thursday, 15 November 2012

A versatile Django plug-in that allows insertion of inline media content, pictures and picture sets, into text fields, organizes your collection through tags, and supports Wysihtml5.

Version 1.1 introduces support for the Wysihtml5 rich-text editor, through a customized command to insert inline pictures in the Wysihtml5TextField widget.

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Wednesday, 7 November 2012

Simple Django app that provides a Wysihtml5 rich text editor textarea widget, with a complete command toolbar to give HTML format to your documents.

Bring all the functionality of the Wysihtml5 rich text editor to your Django project.

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Wednesday, 17 October 2012

A reusable Django app that extends the built-in Django's Comments Framework with threads support, following up notifications and comments that only hits the database after users confirm them by email.

Comments can be nested as of v1.1, and configurable on a per app.model basis.

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D Latest stories
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Dec

A common pattern to many software engineering teams is that with the growth often comes a lack of communication. As a matter of fact, we developers naturally disappear behind the monitor and tend to code more than to socialize.

In the best-case scenario the lack of communication does not interfere with team commitments. But it may also make people less participative and supportive. Team goals can become blurry, and people may lose motivation and traction. At the ...

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Sep

Writing in draft mode and posting in future are among the set of features provided for the first release of Django-dress-blog.

Since last changes a post can also be in Review mode, letting other authors give you feedback on your upcoming post. In addition, a new menu item in the navigation bar helps authors see how unpublished content will look like by switching on and off their visibility.

Unpublished content shows up with different backgrounds depending on ...

D Latest quote
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Apr

The news today from the FSFE is that the German Parliament, the Bundestag, has voted on a joint motion against software patents, illegal under the European Patent Convention. Nevertheless, the European Patent Office has granted tens of thousands of patents covering software.

I bring a quote from an excellent article that sums up the history of Software Patents in Europe:

More importantly, copyright law only protects ...

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"During our professional relationship, he has always shown the will to do the best that was possible, and lead the way to many, many projects, showing control, knowledge, and initiative. Maybe the most interesting project I have worked with Daniel is TOL, a time-oriented programming language written in C++, on ..."
Manuel Balderrábano
Software Engineer
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Yesterday at 8:00h 

Waste Land (2010) PosterWaste Land (2010) Yesterday I watched the documentary Waste Land (2010) by Lucy Walter. It tells a beautiful story. A mix of poverty, despair, strength, courage and art.

The documentary has been awarded in none other than 20 Film Festivals.

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