by | May 13, 2008 | Free/Libre Software, Software Libre
La Oficina de Software Libre de la ULL (mi curro) junto con la propia Universidad, GULIC y CajaCanarias, organizan éste sábado una jornada con homenaje al dÃa de Internet. El personal de la OSL estaremos en Guajara impartiendo talleres y charlas. Ordenadores con...
by | May 2, 2008 | Software Development
I use to think that once you’re use to 2 or 3 programming languages, you can learn another one easily but my thought now is that specialization is important. If you are a Python developer learning C# you not only need to know the syntax but the best practices,...
by | Apr 30, 2008 | Software Development
Nice to see this Microsoft trend. They are pretty much copying the features implemented on great Open Source frameworks like CastleProject or Spring.Net. They published the ASP.Net MVC which is a kind of copy of MonoRail and they are now working on Dependency...
by Carlos Ble | Apr 15, 2008 | Now Reading, Software Development, Test Driven Development
TDD by Example is a master piece of Kent Beck. Excelent book with examples of this development methodology. I’d say that TDD is not that good without an architect, as usual, because you’ve got to decide the API, the interfaces you want as you write the...
by | Apr 9, 2008 | Software Development
I remember the common wisdom among my former .Net developers colleagues regarding Python and it was like… “ok, that’s kind of toy like PHP, something for freaks…..”. The first language supported by Google App Engine is Python. Maybe...
by | Apr 8, 2008 | Software Development
Now in the Oficina de Software Libre, I am the architect and we’re defining the methodologies for the next projects we’re starting. They are software for the university. The main methodology is going to be Test Driven Development which is not tight to any...
by | Mar 28, 2008 | Plumbing
He we are writing in this brand new blog category called Plumbing. Welcome to the misterious world of the systems/servers/networking :-S I started working as a sysadmin some years ago. It is something I don’t love exactly but here in the Canaries you have to do...
by | Mar 18, 2008 | Software Development
The idea for this year was mostly to work for my own, in my micro-ISV. However, my friends at Universidad de La Laguna made me an offer that I couldn’t decline. I am now a member of OSL (Oficina del Software Libre) which is the Open Source consulting group here...
by | Feb 20, 2008 | Software Development
I certainly didn’t till now. Check out the web of the Linux Foundation. I think it is very important to have so many people defining Linux standards. To fix and address standards is crucial for the quality of software in my opinion. I got this site looking for...
by | Feb 7, 2008 | Uncategorized
When I got the problem in my hand because of typing too much, I made the decision of taking care of my hands. My new ergonomic keyboard is very confortable, and has QWERTY and DVORAK layouts. I plan to learn the DVORAK layout to reduce the efforts my hands have to do...
