Internship 1th semester 2014

Dag!
I took my internship at Erlang Solutions in Sweden and I have to say that was the most amazing experience ever. I learned a lot about Erlang/OTP and Quickcheck for Erlang.

Moreover I met  marvellous people there. Erlang Solutions is a great place to work in. Probably the only thing I missed was a foosball table, otherwise the people that is part of the company are so nice and well prepared that I almost forgot the need to play table football. 

The guys that work there are the most high qualified professionals I have ever met. The same for the Trifork guys. At that point the Trifork office shared the office with Erlang Solutions and I have to mention that there is also a huge potential on the Trifork office in Stockholm. They are young and never afraid to work with new technologies, I really miss that office.

Back in Copenhagen the landscape is grey, standard and typical in regard to the software development world...which is kind of discouraging (no offence OOP projects!). There is no one who I can discuss what I just read on the Erlang mailing list or what it is being discuss on the IRC channel.

During my stay in Stockholm I had the opportunity to reach another kind of world that was far from what I have being experienced at school. Suddenly I was no longer alone with my Erlang related issues and interests, just out of the blue we were dozens of us!...well, probably 6 or 7 sometimes, but the point is...I was no longer alone on my passionate interest about functional programming. I loved that sensation and I really miss that.

It has been a while since I finished my internship and I keep only good memories from the Stockholm office: Enrique, Roland, Anders, Jesper Louis, Torben, Robert, Kiko, Thomas, Erik, JD, Dimitro, Stefan and the rest of the crew. I feel very  lucky and grateful to have had the opportunity to meet you! .

Summer Holidays 2013

I just finished my last exam three days ago. That means plenty of time to invest on personal projects, music and technology!. I'm so exited, I got 12 on Network and Programming this semester!!. That is a not so bad grade in Denmark =D.
Last Semesters well good enough; I got only tens, which is also OK.

The focus on this 3. semester was Programming and Design of course, but including the network and distributed system touch. So exciting.  I'm feel really attracted by concurrency and how this problems are addressed in distributed systems. Probably one of my best-liked approaches so far would be message passing and actor model, although I enjoy to write in Java (which implements a synchronous locking system based on Monitors). With this I'm admitting that Scala + Akka offer an interesting way to address concurrency challenges in the JVM.

Well, now vacations!!!

on my ToDo list for this summer I consider the following:

• finish the debugging course (which is excellent!) We use most of the time trying to fix errors. To me, be good at debugging is just a crucial craft that I want to be good at.

1. the last implies that I need to improve my Python skills also...so I had consider to read a couple of books on the road, namely: Python para todos and the "python programming reference" that is available for Android devices on google Play

• continue solving Neo4j koans (lot of fun making pass unit tests with Neo4J cases!!)
• regarding Erlang I'm in the recursion chapter of http://learnyousomeerlang.com and the plan is continuing working in parallel solving the Erlang Etudes. This is high priority. I just love this language and is the functional language that I have been focus the most this year.
• I'm would like to take calculus on Khan Academy
• with respect to Java there are several things I'm really interested in, but I guess I don't have time to cover them all: 

1. JSP and JSF (we learned it at school before the end of the semester and is just really cool),
2. JavaFX (I programmed a chat program that allows the user send messages and draw in a JavaFX canvas and share draws, but I have to fix few tiny issues....but is almost done)

So...I guess is too much to do in only eight weeks =/ But the priorities are Erlang, Debugging course and JSPs...ah and one week to Barcelona or Madrid

Good Summer or Winter everyone
Namaste