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.

The world will be ours

From left to right, Nestor (WiZiTo), Juan Luis (crash) and me. In this picture Alberto (gimenete) is missing.

Remember our faces, we will give something to talk about.

Some news about me

Hi all!!

Last weeks I was so busy, many changes in my life. Now I’m living and working in Barcelona, to be more specific in Telefonica Research and Development. They contacted me because of this blog, it’s an amazing thing

In these weeks / months I have finished my degree, I’ve obtained the maximum rating in my end-of-degree thesis. My thesis has been about my work in the Summer of Code program.

Last week I recorded a podcast about ORMs for JavaHispano, JavaHispano is the bigger Java community in Spanish, this podcast is available on this web. Moreover I’m writing Java Persistence API (JPA) tutorial for this community, this tutorial will be available at soon as posible.

On top, I’m trying to collaborate with the Apache OpenJPA project, I’m writing a patch to add Streams support for the Derby DB.

I will try to write an update every week, I would like to write several technical articles about JPA and Apache OpenJPA. In Barcelona I want to attend some conferences like the First Tuesday España or many others, if you have information about an interesting conference in Barcelona please let me know.

I come back

Sorry about the inactivity, now I come back to update the blog and publish some things about Java, my interests and technology.

See you soon

New google maps service: Street View

Now in OJObuscador, a Spanish web I read that Google launchs a new service called “Google Maps Street View”.

This services offer a street-view, feeling that you’re walking down the street. This service is avaliable in San Francisco, New York, Las Vegas, Miami, and Denver.

You can see the announcement and a video here: http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2007/05/introducing-street-view.html

And you can view this service in http://maps.google.com/ and clicking on the button “Street View”.

If you’re browser language isn’t english you, probably need to specific english language in the URL, something like this: http://maps.google.com/?hl=en at least Spanish need it.

You on the Golden Gate

Is amazing!!

Steve Jobs at Stanford University

Today I recived a mail with a link to this video, I think that Steve’s speech is a great story for young people, specialy for people who work with computers.

In English:

With Spanish subtitles: