20100731 Euskal 18 :after

Euskal 18, the eldest of the Spanish parties, was held past week in Bilbao. For the first time since I first attended (in Euskal 10, back in 2002) I was invited to organise the scene area, since the person who did it in previous years (Bloodrinker/RGBA) couldn’t do it this year. Now I’ll let you [...]

20100623 ruby in the pub #4 :after

Julian Burgess (who I had virtually met via Twitter) suggested me I should attend the next ruby in the pub. It sounded decidedly odd: mixing journalists with an interest for code with ruby developers; even more strange considering I’m not a ruby expert as much as I try, so I thought it could be interesting [...]

20100209 Breakpoint demolog, days 1-7

So the quest is set, the aim is clear: create something for Breakpoint 2010. There won’t be another opportunity; not at least under the Breakpoint umbrella. The organizers have expressed publicly they don’t wish to organize yet another edition of nowadays biggest demoscene event, so it’s now or never! (At least until a new event [...]

20090204 Support Breakpoint

If you’re somehow into the demoscene I bet you already know about that: the biggest demoscene event lost support from the big companies who used to sponsor it. It has been almost on the verge of not being held this year, but thankfully some people are putting their money and their hands where their mouth [...]

20070313 London Ruby Users Group brings you back to uni

After three failed attempts, I managed to go to yesterday’s lrug meeting. It was intended to be a kind of experimental collective code review, so people would contribute with pieces of code and get it dissected and improved collectively. There was an special obsession with Hashes, most of the code submissions were improvements and/or workarounds [...]