Guido Tapia

Guido Tapia

Director of Software Development and Machine Learning Services at PicNet

Guido manages the Software Development and Machine Learning teams at PicNet. They specialise in delivering complex systems that are usually beyond the capabilities of regular outsourcing companies. Such systems as; highly distributed systems, machine learning and artificial intelligence solutions, business critical applications, etc.

Guido Tapia

March 22, 2011

Understanding Nancy - Sinatra for .Net

For a project we are currently working on here at PicNet we decided to forgo the bloat of ASP.Net and Mvc and go for a super light weight web platform. We tried Kayak but this was a little too ‘bare' so we then shifted our attention to Nancy which is ...

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Guido Tapia

January 11, 2011

PicNet's Closure Library Controls Now Public!!!

It gives me great pleasure to anounce that PicNet's closure control library is now public. We have started with only 2 of our controls but over the next few weeks we will port all of our control code to this project. For a demo just visit http://picn ...

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Guido Tapia

October 15, 2010

Google Closure Template Project - Getting Started Quickly with Google Closure Tools

One of the hardest things about getting started properly with Google Closure Tools is that it has a huge amount of framework boilerplate that needs to be organised in order to write your first line of code. I have found that the effort is definately ...

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Guido Tapia

August 29, 2010

IndexedDB Google Closure extern file

I've been doing some work with IndexedDB (on Mouse Eye Tracking) recently and created a closure extern file (download) to help with the process. Hope this helps someone :) Please let me know if someone would like me to create an open source project s ...

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Guido Tapia

June 3, 2010

Annotated, Google Closure Javascript Compiler - Visual Studio Snippets

I have spoken in the past about my great respect for the closure project. This project brings some semblance of order to the chaotic and dangerous world of large application javascript development. However it also has some problems, the biggest of th ...

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Guido Tapia

May 11, 2010

Split Testing (A/B Testing) in ASP.Net Mvc

Working on our website heat maps product, Mouse Eye Tracking, has allowed us to really get into some of the more lean and super agile approaches to developing software. Something that we have loved doing recently is Split Testing (or A/B Testing). It ...

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