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 :-)