Christian M. Castillo Estrada

Open Web Messenger 1.5.1

Administrator — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 07:39:25 +0000

I’m so happy, today my friend Evgeny told me that he was finally released “Open Web Messenger 1.5.1″, I’ve been involved as a developer of this project for five months. The Spanish version has finally arrived, after translating the messages into Spanish, the project may be used by many people who speak Spanish that sounds great !!

Now, I’m traslating the official web site due to it just has the english and russian version. I expect to finish it very soon This project is growing up day by day

You can download the last version http://openwebim.org/download.php

Looking for a free subversion hosting

Administrator — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:13:47 +0000

Today I decided to look for a Free Subversion hosting because my friend Daniel and me are having some problems for controling our project, so that I found Google Code .

Google are offering free Subversion hosting for open source projects. Log in using your gmail account and you can create a project. There is a choice of open source licences. :: Check this ::

I’m so became due to this free repository, because we will maintain current and historical versions of ours files such as source code and documentation. This is very important when you developing a software you must to managment the project.

If you want to register a project in this free repository you need a gmail account.

Also, I found a great tutorial about SVN Subversion for getting start Google Code Hosting. As you can this :: Here !! ::

My first tutorial for ExtJS

Administrator — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 08:52:29 +0000

Yesterday I decided to write a tutorial about hot to use a Calendar with ExtJS Ext.form.DateField with its respect date formats. Also it walks about how you to insert a date using PHP / MySQL. I hope this tutorial will be useful for the community.

It’s very easy to develop through ExtJs framework, but you need to know Javascript and some script language like PHP or JSP.

You can see the tutorial in here

Happy new year 2009!!

Administrator — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 08:14:48 +0000

Another year is gone. I can’t say 2008 year was “another year“, actually I think 2008 is one of the most interesting year I ever lived. I met a nice person (My Girlfriend), I started my master degree (ITESM) E-Commerce and I enjoyed many things.

I traveled to Guadalajara, Vallarta Port and Monterrey and I could visit to ITESM sede Monterrey and Jalisco Stadium.

I hope this year 2009 will be nice for my family, friends and mexican people .

Over the vacation, I’ve been working on important project with my friend Daniel. We are developing a system for a international company, We’re using a nice framework called ExtJS, this is a cross-browser JavaScript library for building rich internet applications. It has High performance and customizable UI widgets well designed and extensible Component model. Also I use PHP/MySQL with JSON.

The reason we chose this framework instead of JSP, ASP, .NET, which use many tecnologies like JQuer, AJAX, JSON, CSS, DHTML and of course JAVASCRIPT. In my opinion this is a beatiful framework and I believe that it will be a important in a short time in the world. Nowadays, many companies are using web application so that the frameworks for developing this kind of application are important day by day.

This is a screenshot of our first version

We expect to finish this project in a couple of mounths and I feel happy because I’ve learned so much developing this project. My friends Master David Ristori and Account Conrado have taught us differents things about accountant topics “Cost” due to the project is a system for getting unit costs.

De regreso a mi Mundo … :)

Administrator — Thu, 01 May 2008 20:35:26 +0000

Después de unos meses sin publicar nada, he decido regresar a mi mundo al gran universo del Internet y al bello e inmenso mar del desarrollo de aplicaciones No hay nada más interesante que nuestro preciado mundo de la programación y en especial si es bajo software libre.

Por cierto la semana pasada participe como ponente en el FLISOL un festival que dejo mucho que desear al menos en nuestra ciudad, digamos que mal organizado y además que el movimiento de software libre en nuestra región digamos que esta en pañales aun. Pero bueno espero que en un futuro cercano se logre realizar eventos de mayor impacto, sin embargo dimos a conocer el desarrollo de aplicaciones web con ajax y php, con mi colega Daniel Hernández.

Este es un tema que desde varios meses me ha provocado incomodidad en relación que para los que desarrollamos aplicaciones web necesitamos de un framework fácil y estable que nos permita ahorrar tiempo en el desarrollo pero a la vez no dejar por un lado el aspecto grafico, es decir desarrollar de manera confiable, rápida pero con un buen estilo de vista para el usuario.

Y en días pasados platicando con my friend Daniel sobre lo que es el nuevo Web 2 y el desarrollo de las aplicaciones para el futuro que prácticamente todo será a través del maravilloso Internet. Me decidí por entrarle de lleno a Prototype, con mi experiencia en el uso de PHP, Javascript y Ajax, me pareció muy interesante este framework.

Prototype es un framework en JavaScript que apunta al desarrollo sencillo y dinámico de aplicaciones web. Es una herramienta para el desarrollo de clases única y de fácil uso, además de la biblioteca más agradable de Ajax.

Lo más interesante de esta librería es que puedes generar ventanas dentro de tu explorador de Internet, además que te permite el uso de componentes con sus respectivas propiedades como getText e interesantes metodos para un buen y agil desarrollo.

Empezare por estudiar el funcionamiento de ventanas, componentes, eventos y demas hasta que logre un pequeña aplicación espero encontrar un verdadero framework