20120129 London-New York (and back), via Hong Kong, Macau, Tokyo and San Francisco

The sketch book I mentioned a couple weeks ago has finally been released! To recap (just in case you accidentally ended here and have no context), it is a travel sketchbook depicting our experiences while travelling around the world these past April and May. I’ve finally settled on building a simple HTML(5) page with a [...]

20101123 The (Spanish) guide to working in London

I’ve been asked about this topic so many times that I’ve finally decided to write a post so that I can forward people to it next time I’m asked about it. Please skip it if you’re not Spanish or interested on working in London :-) ~~~

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++ [...]