But yes, I’ve been living in Bolzano, Italy two months now. I am already at the middle of the semester and I couldn’t be happier. The city is not very big, about 100k people, but it is very beautiful. The german zone with the italian touch makes a great combination. An italian friend of me actually told me “This cannot be not Italy, things actually work here”.

The school is going well also. Professors are, in general, very good. The projects are also very interesing. I’m having a few problems with a one of them, but things like that always happens, no worries. By february I should have finish with all my projects and with luck I will have some time to break some bones skiing.

As you know I’m not good writing long stuff. So I’ll just say that these two months have been great and you will probably not hear from me in a while here. If you wish you can follow my Flickr account where I normally add stuff every now and then.

Ciao belli (e belle)

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.

cheers.

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?

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?)

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.

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.

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.

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.