Software development, agilism and whatever comes to my mind, by Luis Rivas Vañó (Luinix)
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(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
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
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
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
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
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
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
