iTunesU

Ok, this will sound like another fanboyish post. But if it weren't for iTunes I wouldn't have taken another interest into this. So basically I'm back at school but this time around not getting any credit for it, no problem there that way I can actually learn and not worry about a grade. At first I headed to MIT, what they have is basically this OCW if you haven't heard about this well here you go. You can take any course they have posted there, all the lecture notes quizzes, tests, video or audio of the class. I heard about this a couple of years ago, maybe 2004 I believe. But never got really interested even tho there a lots of subjects to actually browse thru and get information.

Sure, you can most likely get all this information from elsewhere by other people who do primarily the same thing. Write about technology and current trends, wish is what a lot or most people look for, right? Anyways this gives another perspective on the same subject and in a more debatable environment, no? At the moment I'm going over a course in open source development and all that is involved in it. So if you are thinking is it about using CVS, or Perl, or the technologies of open source you are dead wrong. Like another course I finished listening to yesterday IDS 110 or Introduction to Computers from UC Berkeley. And WOW, let me tell you go ahead and download the course on iTunes easier to find or later I'll look for a link to download the podcast without iTunes.

I'd like to invite anyone if they want to recommend a course from somewhere there and we could start chatting about the subject, either computers or any other subject you find interesting. Hoping this podcasts I've downloaded help me into getting back to school, which I should have the application ready this week and delivered still need the transcript. Maybe taking a day off and going to Mayaguez to do that, need to check on that today. :-S

Best practices for Web developers

I read /. (slashdot.org) every morning to keep up with technologies. It's good and bad you get to read all sorts of bs and crap comments sometimes, but it's actually good to keep up to date with new trends and find interesting articules. Take this one for example, Hugo you could try to read this for a moment and see if it can help some with your project. I like to think this way with every project I think off and like to work or would like to work.

It's always good to apply some of the ideas stated in the article, always remembering that we need to apply those that help depending on the project you are gonna be working on. And look for new ones if you have to!

I save this one to type more or even organize my thoughts better, who am I kidding. I'm still a bit lazy and all I want to do is eat dinner and play some video games. I reserved my copy of Guitar Hero today, woot! Yes geek times for me soon, but fuck it gonna enjoy it!

Guitar Hero

So, I've heard about this game but never played it. Until today, was at an aunts house for lunch with the family and my cousins where playing this game. So I ask for a turn and got it, damn it's a pretty cool game... Looked if it's coming to the Wii, october 29 can't get here fast enough. Guitar hero 3 is coming out that day and I plan on buying it (Gelo you better get it or at least a guitar) then we can do a Guitar Hero night with Hugo and all those people missing out on the Wii. :-P

Also I'm gonna be playing Metroid Prime trilogy in order, been a couple of years since I played the first and never played the second. So I'm gonna be revisiting Prime and play the second for the first time before I get into Corruptions. Think I'm going back to the console gaming now after like 4 years of playing PC games.


PS. I've cancelled my WoW account, expires on the 4th of October. Countdown starting!

Apple fan boy post, you have been warned...

So yes, I'll keep this super simple. iPhone like iPod called iPod touch, will buy one as soon as I check my finance and see if I can make the purchase. The down side I guess is that only an 8gb or 16gb storage compared to the 80gb or 160gb from the iPod classic (new name). But the iPod touch has safari and you can use google and yahoo with it and comes with WiFi. I think I have a hard-on right now, yes my true colors are showing. Need to get a hold of myself and hide all that, ;-)

Anyways tonight I'll edit or add to this post.

Random bits of...

Well, I've been reviewing my HTML, CSS and JavaScript since I want to start doing some developing. I know I know that this technologies aren't developer technologies but are a good starting point for what I want to do at the moment. Looking at Adobe AIR and while I've been reading the documentation regarding AIR I've been feeling a bit lost trying to accomplish a few things. So I went back a few steps just to remember some stuff and hoping that it helps with learning AIR.

I'm really liking the idea behind Adobe AIR, creating an online application that can work offline too. Pretty sure you can do that right now but I think it would take some time to actually develop everything that is needed to accomplish such work. Why not let others do it for you?! Hehehe!!!

Would you believe me if I tell you that people take video games a bit to seriously? As most of you all ready know I've been playing World of Warcraft since November 23, 2004. Almost 3 years now and let me tell you it's been a blast, I've met so many people (err, so many pixels that can think) that it has been nice. But lately, meaning about this current year, the guild or group of people I've been playing with for the last 2 years have been having some drama issues between them. Thank God I stopped raiding, meaning spending most nights in front of my computer doing nothing but hitting a series of keyboard keys and moving the mouse. And it still amazes me how people can be such dicks toward each other over a pixel world.

Recently about a month or a bit more back we started playing on another server from the main server we've been gaming for months. It was something to just relax, have fun and remember that it's all a game. Boy were we wrong! I didn't get online until sunday night to find that drama had found it's way into our little experiment. To cut a lot of BS that none of you might understand or will understand, yes, it's coming to an end for me playing WoW. My first and probably only MMO I'll play, unless I really get more free time to waste it on a game. Gonna suck when I stop playing it's a cool game, think you all should give the free 14 days trial a chance.

Talking about free time, I think it's getting to be shorter and shorter. Gelo, you got any tips for handling women from Guayama? Starting to go out with a girl from there I met over the net. Been having fun lately, we'll see how that goes... Also I need to send my application to the Poly still, I really want to go back to school. Ever since I talk with the director of that program I've been reading a little bit of Knowledge Discovery and looking forward to going back to classes.

anyways too much rambling right now, should post soon about doing some "turismo interno". Maybe even finding a good restaurant to visit some place in the island.