Sometime ago I decided to arrange my free time during the week (mostly evenings) with my hobbies and things to learn. I set each week day with an activity, like Monday for climbing, Tuesday for composing, etc… It doesn’t really work. The problem is that you have to wait a full week to do the… Read More »
In my previous post I criticized Facebook (“Fb”) quite a lot. But at the end it does some good stuff, like the “keep in touch with your people” thing, a decent content aggregator and a way to publish (or share) things like personal mood or thoughts, links, images, etc. But if you distill some of… Read More »
Have you ever feel how fast the time goes by when you do some channel surfing on TV? “I spend 2 hours in front of the TV, changing from one channel to another, and finally I’ve not seen anything at all”. I had this thought of “wasted time” while surfing on Facebook recently. Fb, the… Read More »
In my previous work I enjoyed when some coworkers tried “visual things” using a webcamera and a soft to recognize hands, fingers and such. This morning I saw a video with the last research on the field… impressive: Link to the video Which technology will win in the input world? Cameras or multi-touch screens?
Here it is a morning conversation with my new Hindi junior coworker. He is in New Delhi, working for us remotely, and I’m teaching him quite a lot of things, and love to discuss about programming problems… Me – have you read about Composite Pattern? He – i use to say to my friends that… Read More »
What was I doing during the shortest day (in Northern Hemisphere) of the year? Enjoying the “code coverage” used in testing, while traveling to my hometown by train for Xmas. Testing, code coverage… what’s that? you ask. Let me explain. A really important part of developing code is testing the code you write. It’s the… Read More »
This is a post about tech books. Sometime ago I discovered that Internet is not, and should be not, the only information source for an IT professional. It’s a good place to search for technical reference, to scan for chunks of information, but definitively it isn’t a place to read long texts. Books are the… Read More »
Is it me or is Barcelona a surprising city where you can get a good job in less than 2 weeks? 10 days ago I decided to look for a new job. I chose just some interesting companies, I sent my CV and… suddenly, everybody was trying to set me job interviews. It looks like… Read More »
A couple of months ago, I programmed a small page that shows images from Flickr based in the tracks you’re listening to on Last.fm (or have been registered by them). It was basically a test, just to try out some things using JQuery, a javascript library. Some weeks later, I decided to submit it to… Read More »
While my plants grow and grow, and are eager to the arrive of summer, Rubén told me about a website, a la 2.0, to keep track of your gardens and plants: My folia, where I’ve created my garden profile. There are too few people at the moment, so the magic of 2.0 doesn’t work still.… Read More »