En las noticias de esta semana se anunció la largada del primer GeneXus Challenge: "El GeneXus Challenge es el primer concurso internacional de desarrollo de software con GeneXus, que brinda la posibilidad a todos los miembros de la Comunidad GeneXus de integrarse en equipos y medir su habilidad y creatividad compitiendo contra equipos de todo el mundo. Individuos y equipos de hasta 5 personas miembros de la Comunidad GeneXus o programadores de C# (para el caso de las GXextensions) competirán por crear las mejores bases de conocimiento GeneXus y GXextensions."Se concursará en dos categorías,... [Click en el título para leer el artículo completo y sus comentarios]...

The launching of the pilot project in Cardal with OLPC laptops had international repercussion. Pictures of children, teachers and authorities appeared in pages from Uruguay, Brasil, Israel, United States, Germany, Italy, China and Japan, within others. The post "Villa Cardal, Center of worldwide attention", with its gallery of photos was linkd from more than 90 blogs worldwide an was at the top of digg for some hours, which took thousands of accesses to the blog from many places in the world.In the map, points indicate places from where there were more than 30 accesses.Within all notes made, I would like to emphasize the one from Vinod Sreeharsha, independent journalist who was in Uruguay those days to make a close coverage for Miami Herald. The article is very beautiful, it's good seeing with foreign eyes some of the experiences of those days....

An Argentinian Railer Pedro Vistin made a view plugin that displays the production version of our app in the views itself. I found it quite useful, so it made me want to learn more about plugin programming so here it is, for all of you who want to make a plugin, a Plugin 101. Let’s start: So as with about anything in Rails it’s wise to use a generator to generate the files that compose our plugin. So lets execeute : ./script/generate plugin NewPlug This creates some files, the most important are: init.rb that bootstraps to the startup of your Rails app. Useful for mixing-in a helper module so all your views can use it. Useful for for coping files or doing things when the plugin is installed lib directory . Contains the actual plugin code, this is where you put your logic tasks directory. Useful for putting rake tasks test directory. Here put the tests for your plugins So let’s get into code writing, what are you supposed to do in a plugin, and most imporantly ho......

El sábado 26 de mayo voy a estar dando una charla sobre Firma Digital y Gx, esto va a ser en la "III Reunión de la Comunidad GeneXus en Montevideo".   Las personas que vayan a la reunión podrán encontrar en está charla los conocimientos básicos para poder comenzar a trabajar con Firma Digital, lo que mas me interesa es compartir con los que asistan a la reunión las experiencias de tener que...

I think it’s important every now and then to read the source of at least some parts of the framework you’re working with. Frameworks come and go, but the real leassons should come from the design of the framework as the can provide you with insight and great ideas for the future. That’s not saying that Rails is not the best thing scince sliced bread (it is ! ) still one should read at least the change logs, right? Well, I was reading the changelog for ActiveRecord Edge and noticied a nice little change inspired in a Err the Blog plugin. The idea is really simple and for sure will save you some keystrokes. What you would write as: (for those of you who are saying OMG ! what’s the deal with the |t|? read my previous post of Ruby Blocks.) create_table “products” do |t| t.column “shop_id”, :integer t.column “creator_id”, :integer t.column “name”, :string, :default => “Untitled&rd......

(Translation of: Una semana después - Nuevas imágenes del piloto en Cardal. Thanks to Gustavo Fischer for the translation work)I was fortunate to visit the “Italy” school at Villa Cardal yesterday, where last week the pilot of the Ceibal project was launched, giving XO laptops to all the children there.View gallery of pictures and videos. I could see live the long awaited scenes of classrooms where every child is working with his laptop. There was even a moment where some parents of the 6th grade students asked to talk with the teacher, and she left the children doing some schoolwork with the computers to take the time needed to talk to the parents. When me and Walter Bender, who was there during a very brief visit to our country a few days ago, entered the classroom, they were all working quietly, although we didn’t take long to change that. As we could see, the kids have taken tons of photos, played and entered the Internet, finding Youtube especially attractive, which has......

(el blog en español se muda a http://proyecto-ceibal.blogspot.com. Recomiendo ver la bienvenida al nuevo blog)Welcome to this non-official blog about Ceibal project, by which uruguayan government intends to give one laptop for every scholar child in our country.This blog started in spanish in february 2007. In that moment, the only organization publicly interested in supplying equipments for the project was OLPC, with its XO computers. Since then, many things have changed. Firstly, there have appeared competitors of XO, competing for providing computers for uruguayan children. Additionaly, in last weeks it started an important international interest about the project in the international comunity, which demanded information in english. Finally, I've had the chance to get involved personally in the project, in the Follou-up & Research area.All this made me decide to use this blog for publishing posts in english, and starting a new one: http://proyecto-ceibal.blogspot.com, for infr......

En el siguiente link pueden encontrar mas información:   http://www.gxopen.com/commwiki/servlet/hwiki?III+Reuni%C3%B3n+de+la+Comunidad+GeneXus+en+Montevideo,          ...

Este es el último post en español en este blog. A partir de este momento el blog en español será http://proyecto-ceibal.blogspot.com, quedando este blog únicamente para entradas en inglés. Recomiendo ver la bienvenida al nuevo blog.Espero que todos los seguidores de este blog encuentren en este cambio la mejora que se busca en la organización de la información.Saludos,Pablo Flores...

Muchos de los nombres de laboratorio de las versiones anteriores de GeneXus han hecho referencia a ríos, lugares y otros elementos típicos del Uruguay. En este caso el nombre elegido fue Rocha que es el departamento que está más al este de Uruguay, es una lugar donde se mezclan lagunas, bañados, sierras, palmeras, aves y playas por donde quiera que se lo visite. Es un lugar sumamente rico en...