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Mexico City, Mexico
It is just before 05h30 and I am living the hotel. The weather is cold, really cold, at least for me (since I compare it to the nice climate of Mexico City). So, I guess it is now official. I am freaking nuts! But hey, it is going to be fun!
As I write this post on my way to WWDC, flying somewhere over Mexico, I cannot help think why I am doing this. After all, I have a nice job at IBM which I enjoy and (as a bonus) pays the bills. This doesn’t leave me much time for programming, specially since my family consumes […]
It turns out that all the information provided to developers at WWDC is confidential except for the Keynote. Well, that does come as a surprise. It is probably the first developer conference I attend (and believe me I have been to quite a few) that I will not be able to discuss with my friends […]
Tomorrow I will be flying to San Francisco to attend WWDC. As many (probably most) Macintosh users I have been hearing all the rumors about possible new product launches at the conference. People are talking about new Macs, new iPods and even iPhones (let’s not forget the always popular tablet rumor). The fact is that […]
I was finally able to post the seventh episode of IT Insight (Spanish). It turns out that managers work much harder than previously thought 🙂 This episode is mostly about planning carefully an SOA implementation and avoiding common pitfalls. With this episode I think that I have covered the most important aspects of SOA for […]
A couple of days ago I attended a meeting of Java programmers sponsored by SUN to be part of a round-table discussion around SOA with people from BEA and other local companies. I had a lot of fun but this really isn’t the point of this entry. During the discussion we were trying to explain […]
I got an email from Ana who disagreed with one of my statements over AJAX in my latest episode of IT Insight. What I said (translated from Spanish) was roughly: “The MVC paradigm was designed to separate the application layer from the presentation layer. AJAX is a step back as it makes this virtually impossible” […]
I have just registered for WWDC 2006. This will be my first Apple developers conference since the Apple II days. Although I am quite excited about Leopard, the new Mac OS X release due in early 2007, I cannot avoid thinking that the OS glory days are already well behind us. It really looks like […]
I was just promoted as Technical Sales Manager at IBM. In this new role I will manage a team of almost thirty engineers from all of IBM’s software brands (DB2, WebSphere, Lotus, Tivoli and Rational). This is going to be a tough challenge but I am really happy to have received this opportunity. I have […]
I have spent a long boring week with a customer in Northern Mexico reviewing defective Java code. Since there wasn’t much to do (at least things that my wife would approve) I have spent some time recording this new episode that deals with important questions such as what is an ESB and how does it […]