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 [...]

20070219 BarCampLondon2 :after

If you read my Thurday’s post, I was terribly undecided about what to talk about (doesn’t sound too good, heh!), but after forcing myself to revisit all the special and interesting issues or topics I have been involved in lately, I finally decided that I really needed to talk about communicating and more specially, making [...]

20070215 BarCampLondon2

For the ones which do not know about, BarCamp* are a different type of events, they are meant to be called unconferences, in the sense that it is not about 100 people listening to someone for 2 hours but each person giving a short talk about something of their own. So the listeners become speakers [...]

20061227 Pop, candies and confetti

Although I just could find a couple of minutes yesterday to remove the polka dotted header image, I’ve been wanting to write about The Pipettes’ Saturday concert at the Roundhouse since then… As expected, there were lots of girls, boys and children all dressed in polka dots, with lassos, tutu’s and all that stuff. But [...]