Mobile browsing is becoming the norm. With the advent of devices like the new iPad or the Nexus 7, predictions that mobile will surpass desktop in 2014 seem wrong: it may happen even earlier. I find myself, loving desktops as I do, using Internet on my mobile more and more often. That constant access to the net is so handy…

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.

Soon Java 7 will be released. A bit delayed, yes, but it’s here. Even so the question lingers: is it enough? I believe the answer nowadays is NO, but of course this is an open discussion in which each developer will have a different (and valid) opinion as per each one’s background. Let’s give some arguments for the no, then. Let’s talk about Scala.

Java 7 will be released soon, so it’s time to check what’s new. The official announcement is here. A list of the new additions to our beloved JVM follows:

During this time I did not update the blog, I was finishing my GSOC 2010 project. You can find more technical details here.

Today I was working with a unit test class for my Google Summer of Code project. Launching the test raised a concurrency exception due to me using ContiPerf to check the performance of some methods. It’s a situation that, given the piece of code tested, would not usually happen.

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.

Due to my current tasks at Google Summer of Code 2010 I’ve been setting up a small CI system for my personal use. Yes, it is an overkill, but I wanted to test it and, truth be told, the statistics provided by tools like Sonar and Hudson are priceless, they show you many potential errors you may have in the code, coverage you are missing, etc.

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: