The last few days I have been working in an old application we have at work. It has passed through lots of people, many of them making a pretty lousy job so I am now paying for very old bad programming.
It is not that bad. I think that doing a *little* maintenance work every now and then is good. Of course it can be less exciting than working with new things but at least I get a chance to insult people who I don’t know.
As you know I am leaving soon so I suppose this will be one of my lasts assignments at the office. So I better do a great job at it.
Recently I have been resolving some problems from the project euler site. I have only solved around 15 of them but I am finding them pretty amusing. The first ones are not very challenging but I still had to take a look at some of my college books for a couple of them. I would like to put here some answers, but no one wants cheaters looking for the answers here, do we?
cheers.
June 30 2010 by
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As you have noticed the blog is now in wordpress instead of good old Drupal. I decided that I like wordpress more (more like ‘I’m more used to it’). The migration was not very hard. I just followed some simple instructions from socialcmbuzz. So, dou you like it? no? Well, I don’t care since this place is mine 
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I still have to remove drupal and move the blog to the top directory of the domain. I think I’ll do it tomorrow since it’s late already.
See you later.
Update- Done! Drupal is officialy out of the site. The wordpress blog is now showing as the front page for the domain. cool, isn’t it?
June 2 2010 by
Santiago in
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Unfourtunately I won’t be entering the master this year. The CONACyT, which is a mexican institution in charge of science and technology developement, refused to grant me a scholarship. They give priority to doctorate studies and I suppose there wasn’t enough budget for my master.
I haven’t decided what to do now. My current job is nice and I’ll probably stay where I am for the inmediate future while I figure out what will be my plan for the upcoming years.
Cheers.
Update- Something great happened. A guy decided to reject his scholarship so I can have it for me! So, after many days of depression I am preparing myself for my first year as a Msc student in Italy! (envy, anyone?)
February 22 2010 by in Uncategorized |
I’m so happy right now.
I was accepted in the European Master in Software Engineer program. This last weeks I was becoming more and more doubtful about my application. Last monday I was almost sure I wasn’t going to get int. Luckily I was wrong.
Almost 1200 people applied and only about 30 were accepted. I suppose I should be flattered.
The bad news is that I didn’t get the scholarships (they only had 12 to assign) so I will have to get one from Mexico’s Conacyt. Anyway, I don’t think that will be a major problem. The program is good enough and the selection process was though, so that’s a plus.
I’ll keep you informed of any news from here to october, when the master begins.
January 27 2010 by in Uncategorized |
Last year I applied for a Software Engineer master program in europe. I have been a little anxious since then but according to what they told me the results should be published at some point during this february.
There are only three verdecits, being rejected, being accepted and being accepted with an erasmus mundus schoolarship. The latter is what I desire of course, but even without the erasmus schoolarship I suppose I could get support from the Conacyt.
I hope to get the results in the first days of the month, but I don’t think that will happen.
Wish me luck.
January 26 2010 by in Uncategorized |
I am in the middle of a pretty interesting Spring training. We started with the DI container which I am familiar with. What was really interesting was the last two sessions in which we learn about AOP basics.
I had read some papers about AOP (aspect oriented programming) but I really didn’t understood it well until now. The way spring handles AOP was a nice surprise, the change of moving from spring xml tags to aspectj expressions was really pleasant.
Next sessions will be about SpringMVC and perhaps some Spring Securty. I’m looking forward to it.
September 26 2009 by in Uncategorized |
I’m taking my firsts steps in learning ruby. I have been hearing good things about it for so long that I finally decided to give it a shot.
It actually looks nice. I like Object Orientation and ruby seems to be better at it that most interpreted languages I’ve come around. Unfortunately it still lacks things like method overloading (the downsides of having dynamic data types I suppose). I do like the ‘everything is an object’ paradigm.
Anyway, I haven’t learn enough to give a real opinion about it, so please don’t take me very serious.
I’ll try to keep you informed about my progress, but I make no promises.
September 26 2009 by in Uncategorized |
Don’t you love when you find a simple solution for a problem that has bothering you for quite a while? I don’t know why I didn’t come up with the solution before but at least I did.
I love JSon’s simplicity.
September 3 2009 by in Uncategorized |
I will not even try to apologize for forgetting about this place. It’s useless….
Recently I´ve working a lot with flat files. You know, parsing and writing them from/to objects. My first try was very ad hoc since I was using a very simple format. Unfortunately things changed and the need for several types of formats form multiple clients appeared.
Luckily I found a nice java library (named Flatworm) for parsing and writing files using a format defined in a XML file.
The project seems to be abandoned but it’s quite usable. You can read a fast guide to it in its home page.
Flatworm basically let you define a format with many fields (with a fixed length or using a separator ) which will be mapped to a bean fields. This way, if you write a bean to a file each field will be filled using the appropiate get method. It works the same way parsing, calling a set method for every field in the format.
I will not write a tutorial about it since the guide is quite easy to follow.
Greetings.