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Joost : Da bomb

Marcos — Mon, 21 May 2007 05:27:28 GMT

OK OK, I know, maybe old news for you, but it's new for me ;)
Joost has one of the best UIs I've ever used... great art, but the best of all: Joost it's free TV!!!!
I'll be honest with you: I don't see much TV, only fútbol (aka: soccer), some movies and that's all, but this thing works great...and because I have a 2007WFP now I can code and watch some videos or TV series.

(I highly recommend the SI channel)

Almost the end of the year for me...

Marcos — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 21:13:00 GMT

I don't know if this was a bad, good or great year regarding jobs. In this year I was in 2 different places, is strange, at least for me. First, I quit my job at Andromaco Labs. and I went to a great job: Clarius Consulting. I'm not lying if I tell you I felt all my dreams came true the first time I put a feet inside that office. You probably know who are these guys or heard about Daniel Cazzulino, Victor Garcia Aprea or Fernando Simonazzi. Maybe they are part of the elite of .NET Developers in the world. But the things didn't go well after all, I never felt part of Clarius, I felt lost, and why not, at that time maybe the job was out of my league. Anyway, that job was the worst and the best experience of my career. I've learned more than you can imagine, but just an example: I gave my first steps on TDD with the help of Daniel. I saw how the code and with the help Victor how change my way of think about programming. Awesome. But, after more than 3 months I quit. The pressure was huge, and I was living just for work, and I don't like that. I love programming, but that was an excess
I think after all, it was a good year, I learned that money and technology it's not everything, should be a balance with human relationships... I will be looking for that balance always in the future.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!.

New Job...

Marcos — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 17:10:00 GMT

I quit my now old job, and now I'm in a very exciting place. I'm not sure if I can say where I am, but trust me, this place rocks.
On thing is sure: I will be doing Mobile devices stuff.

Programming fonts

Marcos — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 18:43:00 GMT

The new podcast from Scott Hanselman, Hanselminutes, talks about "Top Ten Utilities you Didn't Know you Had". Some of the utilities are related to fonts. So, maybe it would be useful to anyone some links to programming fonts resources:

Proggy Fonts
Monospace/Fixed Width Programmer's Fonts
Keith Devens' Programming fonts

I'm pretty sure there are more links, at least one more but can't remeber it. My bookmarks are only in my brain ¬_¬.
In case you ask, I use the "Proggy clean (Slashed 0, blod punc)", but Monaco also looks really nice.

My girlfriend wants to learn programming...

Marcos — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 03:31:00 GMT

And of course, I'll teach her the little I know.
When she told me: "I want to learn programming", it was a total surprise. She studies fashion design at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA)!
The first thing I thought was what language I would choose, but few seconds later I tell her : "We are going to learn Ruby. Now, let me tell you something: I don´t know Ruby. She either of course. We´re going to learn Ruby both of us :).
OK, why Ruby? Because the syntax it´s clear, it doesn´t have a lot of symbols like C/C#, it's elegant (not like VB) and it's full OO, and the most important thing: looks fun.
In my case, no language learning can be done without a book, so we get a copy of Learn to Program and she started playing with it, code the first samples and like it a lot, and actually gets it :). The books it´s very funny and she likes the way Chris explain, I think it was a great choice, I mean, the language and the book.