dic:ph English Spanish Dictionary for the iPhone

Just to revive this blog, some advertisement blurb on my latest app.

Another release in the dic:ph series, dic:ph English Spanish is a novel concept of multidictionary for the iPhone providing:

  • dictionary definition for English words;
  • dictionary definition for Spanish words;
  • translation from/into Spanish/English;
  • conjugation table for Spanish verbs.

dic:ph is your perfect companion if you are aiming at improving your English or Spanish skills. You can read more about it in our product page for dic:ph.

It is available on the App Store.

A video of the Odyssey for the iPad

I think I have mentioned a few times a side project I worked on in the second half of 2011: The Odyssey for the iPad. (The iPhone was not considered from the start due to its smaller size). The project was born as a serious attempt at making an artistic and fiercely poetic version of the Odyssey, based on the original drawing and literary research by Joma, a Barcelona based artist, and on the original music by Xavier Maristany, a Barcelona based musician.

My latest contribution to InfoQ

In the last couple of months, I have been contributing to InfoQ as a News Editor for the Mobile topic. Although this might not look like the most elegant behaviour, I will link here some of my writing for them. here you have my last one:

Updating Android Studio Gradle Distribution

I was bitten by the infamous 

BUG! exception in phase 'semantic analysis' in source unit '_BuildScript_' Unsupported class file major version 60

error while building a React Native app I developed for my employer:

Year-end encryption export declaration

1. Visit the report generator

2. Fill the data (specify N/A when not sure because it likely does no apply)

3. Choose 5D992 for Export Control Classification Number

4. Select MMKT for Authorization Type