I've always believed that simple things are all you really need. There's no need for fancy wishes, or elaborated plans, what's gonna make you happy are just details. For me, this includes having a hot shower from time to time, and regular internet access. I could easily add having a good pair of headphones, clean socks, and the tune of a song I can hum all day. Of course, a clean cotton-swap, in fact this could be number one!!. Wait, number one is that feeling you get when you're back home, there's nothing like that, I mean, the calm, the change of environment, even the weather feels different. I don't know, it's like deep inside you know you won't feel as good as here anywhere in the world.
My master thesis is starting to take shape. This week, Dr. Rafael Lozano and Dr. Bárbaro Ferro agreed to be my advisors, I was really happy when they confirmed it!!. Now I know this is going to be really interesting, because anyone who has ever taken one of their courses won't let me lie, they're excellent teachers but best of all, they're really hardcore in they're speciality areas. It's going to be challenging, I didn't choose an easy thesis topic and I risk failure if I don't get my self together, but hey, that's what I came here for, a challenge!!:.
Last Friday I attended an excellent night of blood and war, it was so successful that next Friday we'll be having another one!!. I'll just keep in mind that the more I drink the less skillfull I am:..
In a matter of time, it would slip from my mind, In and out of my life, you would slip from my mind, In a matter of time.
Back when I worked in QuarkSoft I could afford two hours for meal, those were good times!. Anyway, a couple of friends and I used to have meal in just one hour so we could go to a nearby place to play Call of Duty 2!!, that was real life!!. After an hour of killing each other we would come back to work with renewed energy, which in the end was a good thing for the company. They wouldn't let us play in work hours, but one day we asked permission to use the work computers for a so-called night of blood and war, where we could play Call of Duty on a Friday's night. It was a huge success!!:.
Well, tomorrow I'll be attending a new edition of the night of blood and war, with two original members of the very first one. They have they're own company now, and best of all, they recognize the value of letting your employees relief stress by killing everyone else in a harmless videogame:...I can feel the adrenaline already!!:.
The loneliest people, Were the ones who always spoke the truth, The ones who made a difference.
I'm still looking for a thesis advisor, nonetheless, today a great teacher accepted to be one of my co-advisors, Dr. Gutiérrez Tornés!!. Last semester I took his Software Quality course, and it was really good, he's got plenty of experience with Quality enforcement and Software Engineering in general. I'm really glad he accepted to work with me:.
I've been assigned my first programming homework, time to practice some Scala skills!!:.
I'm not sure all these people understand It's not like years ago, The fear of getting caught,
If you fancy a good movie give Zombieland a try, it's simply amazing!!, definitely one of the best movies of the year. It could use some more zombies, but it's hilarious, I can't remember the last time I actually had a good laugh in the cinema:.
I'm still refining my thesis topic. I've found excellent papers describing the state of the art of architecture enforcement, and I'm pleased to see this area is not as immature as I thought it was, what's more, I feel there's a real chance I can be part of this community soon!!:.
These days I've been reading a lot of academic and scientific papers related to the Software Architecture area. I'm impressed by the huge amount of knowledge out there, but I'm more impressed by the gap between theory and practice in this field. I'm not naive, I knew the gap was there, I just didn't think it would be this big. Let me explain, I've been programming for a living for over 4 years now, I've worked for different companies, with colleagues from all around the world, developing software for a wide variety of customers, and in all this years there's been one constant, at some point chaos emerges!!, among other things because of the lack of a useful software architecture. I know this isn't how things are supposed to be, that's why my thesis topic is going to be all about architecture enforcement. The things is that there are some really good ideas and projects published out there, but to be honest, not easily available unless you're in the academia. If they're not read by the ones taking the design decisions out there, they just turn into anecdotes, which is really bad because in the end it's programmers who get affected the most:.
Esas alas que no acaban de llenarse de mañana y te urgen siempre a continuar.
