Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

Randy Pausch died July 25th 2008. 

This video is a motivational video like the Steve Jobs video that I posted a while ago.

 

 

Also there is available a longer one, I dind’t have time to watch this one but for sure is great.

debug_mode=ON social network for developers

I’m happy to announce the creation of a social network in Spanish for developers, the web is http://debugmodeon.com. For the moment you can write articles, rate them and comment an article also you can create groups, each group has a forum and the articles can be associated with the groups.

The user is the most important in our portal, for this reason a user can EARN MONEY publishing articles, you only need your Google Adsense id.

We have created debug_mode=ON based on the idea of the ton of diferent technologies that a developer can learn today. So, a user can creates articles about Java or Cobol, about Agile methodologies, SEO, design patterns, or how to do anything. The groups werw created with the idea of debate arround a concrete subject or a general one (depending the group) all arround the them of computers.

To do the site we used Python, it’s running on the service Google App Engine. We licensed our code under Affero GPL, so our code is Open Source.

debug_mode=ON is a beta version, we’ve opened a thread to get your feedback, ¡all the opinions are wellcome!.

You can read the offical announce here.

Hug a Developer

Great video:

Why people don’t know FindBugs?

During last weeks I talked with some people who has been developing in Java for a long time, I’m really surprised because they didn’t know FindBugs or other static analyzer, of course all of them think that is really useful and they have started or have plans to use it.

If you don’t know what is FindBugs, FindBugs uses static analisis to look for bugs in Java code. FindBugs is licensed under the Lesser General Public License.

Other Java analyzers:

PMD: Similar to FindBugs.

Checkstyle: Help programmers write Java code that adheres to a coding standard.

Do you use any static analyzer when you program?

Which one?

What is your opion about these tools?

Pictures of this weekend

As I said this weekend I had my first visit, thanks to come

Some pictures of the weedend

This weekend I have my first visit in Luxembourg

This weekend I have my first visit in Luxembourg, they are Alberto, his girlfriend Leticia and Alba. I hope to be a good host . I’m looking forward the visit, now I´m going to the train station to pick them up!

The Java EE 5 Song

It’s not new but I discovered this song yesterday, it’s really funny and a little bit geek

The Java EE 5 song and the original post

Lyrics:

Ladies and gentlemen, this is Java EE 5!

One, two, three, four, five
There’s a technology I use day and night
For my application with a web frontend
They told me to use .Net
But I really don´t wanna

So many bugs I fixed last week.
My code is neat and talk is a cheap
I like Glassfish, JSF, persistence API
And as I continue you know they´re gettin´ sweeter

So what can I do I really beg you my Lord
To me codin’ it´s just like a sport
All the bad code from the past, let me dump it
Please set in the trumpet

A little bit of injection in my life
A little bit of persistence by my side
A little bit of NetBeans is all I need
A little bit of EJB’s what I see
A little bit of standards in the sun
A little bit of XML all night long
A little bit web services here I am
A little bit of code makes me real man

This is Java EE 5!

Jump up and down and move your code around
Shake your head to the sound bury bad code under ground
Move one step left and one step right
One to the front and one to the side
Refactor it once and refactor it twice
If it looks like this you’re doin´ it right

A little bit of injection in my life
A little bit of persistence by my side
A little bit of NetBeans is all I need
A little bit of EJB’s is what I see
A little bit of standards in the sun
A little bit of XML all night long
A little bit web services here I am
A little bit of code makes me real man

This is Java EE 5!

Spain wins the Euro2008!!!

44 years after … Spain wins the Eurocup again. No coments.

Apache OpenJPA 1.1.0 Now Available

Apache OpenJPA 1.1.0 is now available at http://openjpa.apache.org/downloads.html and via Maven. Version 1.1.0 includes a number of new features and bugfixes, including:

• Improvements in SQL generation for DB2, Oracle and MySQL
• Support for memory-friendly streaming of BLOB and CLOB data
• Support for interface-only domain models
• Collections and Maps can now contain primitives, enums and @Embeddables, as well as @Entity and @MappedSuperclass types
• Assorted performance and scalability improvements

For more details, see the release notes.

OpenJPA 1.1.0 was released some weeks ago but until yesterday we didn’t have a oficial announce, they has some problems with the artifacts signatures in maven.

The support for memory-friendly streaming of BLOB and CLOB data was my work in the summer of code

I move to Luxembourg

I announce it last week in my current company, at the end of this month I don’t renew my contract, I decided to move to Luxembourg, I’m going to work in Intrasoft, the final clients are going to be the European Institutions. I’m very excited with this opportunity, I’ve been looking forward to go out of Spain the last two years, and finally I decided to do it now.

I think that it will be a great experience, I’m going to a diferent country, diferent languaje, I don’t know anyone in the country … maybe this types of things should make me feel some scare but not, I’m excited, I want to do this!!

I will put my experiences here, maybe it can helps somebody …

PS If you know someone in Luxembourg, I’m looking for a room in a shared flat and someone to drink a beer or something, contact me.