Visit Tenerife during the Agile Open Space

There are two major events in the Agile-Spain Community. One is a conference and the other is an Open space. In June 2013 (21st and 22nd), the Open Space will be held in Tenerife, Canary Islands, a paradise in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Perfectly connected with...

Share what you learn, to learn even more

I always encourage developers to write a technical blog. I’ve already convinced some of them to start blogging… yeah! Why is it that you explain your problem to other person (or even to a rubber duck) and you find the solution yourself as you describe the...

Best practices for JavaSript RIAs

Last month I was in Madrid talking about best practices for JavaScript RIAs, in the monthly meetup organized by MadridJS. Here you have the slides: The talk was in Spanish. I expect to give this talk in upcoming conferencies, in English 🙂

Deiser rocks: integrating with Jira

Last friday was awesome. Leo Murillo and Carlos Fernandez, from Deiser,  were helping me out with the integration of Atlassian Jira in LiveTeamApp (my latest application for team productivity).  We spent the whole day learning about Jira integration and ended up with...

BDD applied to JavaScript RIAs

    Is there any difference in the implementation of Behavior Driven Development in the case of a Rich Client Application (or Rich Internet Application) ? BDD’s primary goal is communication. In that regard, there are no differences. However I see the...

The sticky scroll bar inside the draggable

jQuery UI draggable is so cool! However, if the draggable element (or any of its children) contains a scroll bar, clicking on it will result in the mouse pointer stuck on the whole draggable element forever. To avoid that, use the “cancel” option:...

¿Puedo ayudarte?

Además de ser desarrollador de software, soy consultor y mentor. Los tres roles me gustan siempre que sean medios que me permitan ayudar a los demás. Ser de utilidad a alguien. Cuando tengo que escribir un software que no va a servir a nadie, no encuentro la...

Pair programming for charity

Do you want to pair up with me for a good cause? I am proposing people to code with me over the internet to practice Test Driven Development, refactoring and pair programming. Instead of giving me money for that, I would like my pair to donate some money or time for...