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

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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Guido Tapia

May 4, 2010

Visitor Heat Maps in WordPress - New Plugin

Hi All, I'm pleased to announce that we have just released a new WordPress plugin that will allow you to effortlessly add the PicNet Mouse Eye Tracking service to your WordPress website / blog. Now you can see exactly what your visitors are doing on ...

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Guido Tapia

April 19, 2010

Lean css in javascript

This weekend I was looking at the lesscss.org project and found it very interesting. There is also a .net implementation. The basic features of these projects is to make css less verbose, they do this by offering features like mixins, variables and n ...

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Guido Tapia

April 14, 2010

Javascript Tips, Tricks and Hacks

JavaScript is by far the most expressive language I use today, that expresiveness is a result of the amount of flexibility that the language gives the developer. This is also the same reason why it is so hard to develop in JS, however I will not be f ...

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Guido Tapia

March 15, 2010

Google Explorercanvas (excanvas) for IE. Silverlight vs VML

Many people do not realise that excanvas has a silverlight implementation. This implementation is apparently less stable (I have had very few issues with it) but much much faster. The only real draw back as I see it is that it requires clients to hav ...

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