Hacking for fun and profit

I am in my new job now, the Lima Chamber of Commerce and it is great. I am working with my good friend Jorge, and my new boss is very open to try new solutions and Free Software. For instance, he is quite impressed by the power of regular expressions and how they can save time.

My first tasks here were the development of a PHP site and fixing the EXTREMELY messy code of the existing apps. Also modifying some (ew!) COBOL apps to generate some reports. COBOL is EVIL. And lucky me, I’m in charge of a big cobol2python project here. Nobody likes cobol it seems :-)

On the business side, aurealsys is going well, we are in the process of getting our labs running :-)

And finally, ULIX, the LUG I formed with breno in our University is going very well. We have lots of very active members, a lab with 6 sparcs and a cluster running in there (debian powered of course).

And also, happy birthday my friend. Some day we will have another 2-day-long hack-a-thon, but NOT YET :-)

PS: the blog motto changed, this time it is not job-related, this one is to stay :-)

I’m happy to announce that I got a new job at the Lima Chamber of Commerce (Camara de Comercio de Lima). So, again, the motto of this blog (trapped in the NOC) must change (again). Suggestions are welcome.

Also, I’m now a (happy?) gnome user. I still miss some things from fluxbox like EXTREME key-binding to launch apps and shells and do everything, and silly things like using the mouse scroll in the desktop to switch workspaces. If I can’t find a way to do that, I’ll have to hack gnome :-) (I switched to gnome because I want to be a gnome hacker anyway).

OTOH, my migration to GNU/Emacs was a total failure. I am one with vim. Maybe I’ll try again in the future.

And something unexpected, I’m using Evolution instead of mutt for the Chamber’s corporate email. It’s something very, very different but it is very useful, even for minimalistic freaks like myself.

oh, and I got a haircut <o/

I had an interview today for PCWorld Peru. They are preparing a special about developers in free software platforms and I was interviewed for my work in Americatel Peru. It was a very nice interview, but my secret identity was discovered, SuperDebian:

Thanks Christian for the interview, and thanks Victor for allowing this to happen :-)

(and yes, I need a haircut)