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 [...]

20091021 BAA sells Gatwick. So what?

BAA has been forced to sell Gatwick airport because of the so-called monopoly of BAA over London’s main airports. All right, I’ll tell you a secret (only if you promise not to tell anyone else): I don’t think that’s going to change anything. The monopoly term doesn’t mean anything to airport customers, unless you make [...]

20090714 “tube” sources released

I began working on my new, shiny notengine (full name: thisisnotanengine) a few months after vslpx was released. It took some ideas and knowledge from that code base but it also introduced some new concepts and changed others. The result, now that I see it from the distance, is a horrible amalgamation of misunderstood C++ [...]

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 [...]

20070307 Being understood

(This is an extended version of the minispeech I gave at BarCampLondon2, “Being understood”, and here are the slides just in case you’re willing to see some bullet points goodness). We are failing to make ourselves understood. We can be speaking the same language as our listeners and failing miserably in communicating even simple concepts [...]