miscellanea

After a weekend wasted in bed (food poisoning sucks) I’ve spent some hours catching up with tech news. And I’ve found a very interesting, if brief, comment about a new war between Apple and Google that may impact their success in wearables.

I wrote another post for Gumtree developer blog. I attended a meetup in StackCareers office in London. I’ve attended a few meetups (less than I’d like!) since I came to the City and joined Gumtree, but I consider this one to be one of the best.

I’ve been pretty busy lately at Gumtree, but I still got time to publish some posts in our Dev Team blog.

It’s been a busy couple of months. I recently moved from Dublin to London to start working at Gumtree (and loving it so far!). If moving is always a hassle, moving across countries is that hassle tenfold. Fingers crossed everything will be done by Christmas…

I recently finished reading The Lean Startup, a (relatively) new approach on development and innovation on software companies. An interesting and recommended reading for anyone involved in software development.

It’s been a while, but the domain is live again! There was some unfortunate incident which wrecked the domain and left my previous blog unusable. After many months of procrastination, I’ve restored it back to a working state.

Let’s spur some controversy! Outside Spain very few know about the reality of Catalonia. For those of you who don’t know about it, a brief summary of its history:

As somebody who spends too many hours in front of a computer I’ve developed some injuries in my tendons, specially in the right arm. It’s not nice to work with pain (and I blame my low APM to it!). Although I go to physio and I’m recovering well, it would be good to avoid this happening again in the future.

I’m from Barcelona. This simple and straightforward fact always raises expressions of incredulity amongst the people I meet here in Dublin when I tell them I live here:

I own a Lacie Big5 to backup my files, which amount to almost 2 Tb right now. Lately I’ve had some compatibility issues as some files I copied from my Windows Vista machine were not readable from my Kubuntu 9.10.