Alejandro García

Alex helped founding the company because he enjoys software programming.
Spain
After finishing his graduate degree in Computer Science and trying to find the best option to continue programming, he put off his Ph.D. to start Igalia and spend time programming free software, trying to create the best organization that allows programmers to control their work.
POSTS
2012 WebKitGTK+ hackfest
After four years we all know the hackfest is wearing and interesting at the same time, long hacking days is the rule here. This year we got people
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European WebKit Hackathon
Last week I attended the European WebKit Hackathon, the organization and the location were awesome (Bucharest). We had the opportunity to meet with o
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Status update …
Long time without blogging, you can check my last post was about WebKit meeting in 2011, wow. The truth is that I wanted to wait until I had a list o...
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2011 WebKit contributors meeting
On April several developers from our team had the chance to attend the WebKit contributors meeting in Cupertino, I’ve spent a couple of more days in S
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WebKit2 MiniBrowser for the GTK+ port running!
After some months of cleaning, fixing and landing all the required patches (some provided by Motorola devs), yesterday we landed the last one adding t
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2010 WebKitGTK+ hackfest, done
It has been a very intense week, we are all tired but I think all the energy spent in the work and discussions during this week has paid off in...
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WebKit rendering, shadows and tiles
In this post I’ll be talking about the shadows rendering in WebKitGTK+. If you are not interested in the details skip the rest of the post, the summa
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Meeting notes
Last week was a very interesting week for our WebKit group in Igalia, a lot of things happened, we even found that a volcano explosion did not allow P
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WebKit meeting next week and rendering
Lately I’ve been checking the rendering code in WebKitGTK+, graphics are always very challenging. We want to check how to improve scrolling and render
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