(This is an article I published a few weeks ago in Funding Circle's engineering blog, here) It's been a few months since I first approached Clojure, and approaching a functional language for the first time is quite an experience that makes you revisit and reevaluate many of your past experience and know-how with object-oriented (OO) … Sigue leyendo TDD in Clojure
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From Levelap to Stack Builders
Next week is my last week as a member of the Levelap team. After a year and a half being part of this project the time has come for a change, for facing new challenges, an learning new technologies and workflows. During this year and a half I've felt supported and appreciated, and I've been … Sigue leyendo From Levelap to Stack Builders
Hackwell in Haskell: a Haskell hackathon in StackBuilders
Today have taken place in the StackBuilders offices in Quito what seems to be the first Hackathon using a funcional language, in Ecuador. For this ocasion, we've been using Haskell. Haskell is a functional programming language created in 1990 that takes its name from Haskell Curry, an american mathematician in which works about logics are … Sigue leyendo Hackwell in Haskell: a Haskell hackathon in StackBuilders
‘Waterfaller’ agilism
And there I was, "happy" with my charts, my twenty-thousand indicators, my deadlines, my analysis and design documents, my expected contribution margin, etc... So all of a sudden, the company decides that agile is starting to become quite trendy and we need to put on the agilist medal. The send me and everyone involved in project … Sigue leyendo ‘Waterfaller’ agilism
Changes and more changes
And this the reason why I always tried to avoid opening a blog: 913 days without publishing anything. Two years and a half. Let see what has changed since then: I no longer work at Emergya. Now I live in Quito, Ecuador, and I work at Levelap. I've abandoned a little my systems-related activities for focusing … Sigue leyendo Changes and more changes
Asynchronous Coding Dojo at Levelap
Tomorrow at 09:30am we are holding a Coding Dojo at Levelap. This time, we are going to focus on asynchronous programming with Node.js. As usual, beers and pizza will be available, and remember: free entry 🙂 The resources I've prepared for the Dojo are available at my Github account, here. ¡Ah! Here you have the … Sigue leyendo Asynchronous Coding Dojo at Levelap
A network of telecentres using free software: Operative system I
After discussing the basic scheme of a telecentre, let's do a brief overview of the major developments we have made to the Linux distribution that runs in our telecentres. It is a derivative of the distro used in the Guadalinfo centers, and based on Ubuntu / Debian. Again, my appreciation to Alfredo Matas, Javier Hernandez, … Sigue leyendo A network of telecentres using free software: Operative system I
A network of telecentres using free software: Basic structure of a telecentre
In this post I will try to show the the basic outline of a telecentre. I'll try to emphasize the reasoning, right or wrong, of certain design decisions. It is also essential for me to point out that this development has been the product of a team, which I had the great honor of coordinating: so all credit goes to Alfredo Matas, Javier Hernandez, David Teyssiere, Enrique Jimenez, Jose Ignacio Alvarez and Roberto C. Morano. Let's go! Structure of … Sigue leyendo A network of telecentres using free software: Basic structure of a telecentre
A network of telecentres using free software
Since last fall I have had the privilege of been involved as a project manager in the design and development of the software and network infrastructure for a set of 165 telecentres, using entirely free software. Over the next posts I will try to describe the solution me and the project team have implemented, which … Sigue leyendo A network of telecentres using free software
Imperial march version 0.2
It is curious that the most widespread of my scripts was one that, using a bunch of beep's, played the imperial march using the PC speaker. In fact, there has been people who has approached me in certain occasions just to ask me about the damn script. Where did it came from? Well, some years ago … Sigue leyendo Imperial march version 0.2
