Starting with EventMachine III
Apr 7, 2013
The event loop and reactor pattern are the two patterns EventMachine is powered by . Understanding them is key to write successful EventMachine applications... read it.
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Starting with EventMachine II
Mar 25, 2013
Writing evented code has implications that may not be explicit at first look. There are 3 aspects that will be affected: flow, program structure and testing... read it.
Starting with EventMachine I
Mar 13, 2013
Earlier this year I wrote a couple ruby programs using EventMachine. I found it hard to start with it and the documentation or tutorials scarce. Let's fix that... read it.
Internal vs. External DSL
Jan 23, 2012
Lately I've been struggling with one of my apprentice tasks because I only knew about Internal DSLs. It turns out that there is another kind: external DSLs.. read it.
The key to Ruby hashes is eql? hash
Jan 16, 2012
I've been struggling for a few hours with key hashes in Ruby. We usually use primitive values as keys but what happens when we want to use one of our objects.. read it.
On code and natural language
Jan 9, 2012
I gave a talk about the importance of code readability and how it is tightly related to code quality. But what is the readability level we should achieve?.. read it.
2011: a tale of two cities (part 2)
Jan 4, 2012
This is the part of my 2011 retrospective. During the second half of the year a lot of interesting things happened to me, and most of them in Madrid... read it.
The fisherman and the businessman
Dec 31, 2011
Lately I've been reading a lot about minimalism. One of the books I've read had an amazing history about a fisherman and a businessman that I wanted to share... read it.
2011: a tale of two cities (part 1)
Dec 30, 2011
This is my 2011 retrospective. A year that has been a life-changing one for me. In the first part of it I write about what took place in Valladolid... read it.
A fresh start
Dec 24, 2011
A lot has changed since the last time I wrote a post. In this one I reflect about why this blog has been dead for months and what I'm going to do about it... read it.
SC2011 or why you should learn English
Jun 2, 2011
Instead of talking about Software Craftsmanship UK 2011 I will share my insights on why everyone in the software industry must understand and speak English... read it.
Pedigree vs Awesomeness
May 12, 2011
Tom Preston-Werner gave the best definiton of what University is to professionals in the programming field during his interview on the Teach me to code podcast... read it.
Inception at Wiseri: day 2
May 11, 2011
Finishing the round up to the inception at Wiseri with the activities of the second day and the final conclusions about the results... read it.
Inception at Wiseri: day 1
May 4, 2011
This week I attended an inception at Wiseri which was facilitated by Enrique Comba. I'll tell you what an inception is and what we did during the first day... read it.
RSS feed available
Apr 27, 2011
The RSS feed is now available. Check out what I researched about the RSS specfication and how I have developed the feed using HAML and Sinatra... read it.
Welcome to my new blog
Apr 25, 2011
In this post I make my new blog public and I will tell you what I will do with this new site and what you can expect from it regarding serveral things... read it.
Developing my own blog
Mar 21, 2011
The beginings of my pet project: developing my blog using a custom blogging engine with Ruby, Sinatra and Heroku... read it.
February Kata: Roman Numerals
Mar 8, 2011
Katacast showing the implementantion of the Roman Numerals kata in Ruby with RSpec and Autotest. My february katacast for the 12 months 12 katas initiative... read it.
A week in Be Code
Feb 22, 2011
In this post I tell you how was the week the week I spent at Valencia with the awesome people of Be Code. Day by day I let you know what we did and how... read it.
January Kata: String Calculator
Feb 1, 2011
Katacast showing the implementantion of the String Calculator kata in Ruby with RSpec and Autotest. My january katacast for the 12 months 12 katas initiative... read it.