Gonzalo's thoughts

A few months ago I reported my business unit was offered for sale.

A year ago I was in a plane flying into London.

A few days ago my company sent out this press release.

This post started as a way of comparing different ways of managing customer relationships.

Imagine you´re a Member of Parliament.

From time to time I visit the page where the internal comptroller in Spain posts its budget deficit figures.

EDIT: I’ve done again the calculations and are more unbelievable even.

Below you can see the ad that in my opinion will end up being be the most popular video in Spain this Christmas It depicts Fofito (a clown very well known in Spain) with other well known comedians, actors and even journalists, sending parcels to “important

Today I rented a car for a few hours.

When I started this blog, I had a goal.

In two weeks I will be working in London.

A couple of weeks ago I was asked to do an assignment for a selection process.

We’ve been dealing with another bug in JMS code.

From time to time I write about politics in Spain in general and in particular Spanish deficit.

This last two weeks I have dealt with a weird bug in IE9.

I tend to listen Techzing podcast.

In last post I wrote why.

This afternoon I was preparing an interview I expect to have next week, and came to an interesting page with information about job selection process and companies inside information.

How to disable auto close for the XML comments.

I didn’t know about object calisthenics.

For more than three years I’ve been managing certificate-based digital signature applications.

Besides the console faking and the dependency inversion issue, my code in Ruby was pretty rough.

As I wrote some posts ago, I received an assignment, and I decided to do both in Java and in Ruby.

I’m planning to make a newbie post about rvm, bundler and the rest.

A few days ago, I was preparing an assignment for a job process both in Java and in Ruby.

As I wrote in a previous post, I was asked to design a software managing a robot inside a board of 5x5 cells.

While applying to a position a few days ago, I received an assignment trying to test my coding style.

As I wrote in my last post, I’ve recently learned it is important to be able to show what you’ve been doing.

In my previous post I explained a great experience applying for a position.

I wrote in my last post about lessons I’ve got from bad experiences looking for a job.

For some time I’ve been applying to different positions.

In a previous post I proposed some tips for trying to manage and control the hell of XML and XPATH parsers.

It’s widely spread that there has been a security breach in LinkedIn.

I’ve been Google fanboy for a long time.

These days I’m playing with NodeJS.

This is one of my political/economical post (nothing related with computers) I write from time to time.

I lead a team that is transitioning a 9-year-old internal framework from a somewhat Struts based to Spring IoC and Spring MVC based.

OK.

In my previous entry, I tried to explain why Xerces and Xalan are so complicated.

I said in the previous post that Xalan and Xerces sometimes look like magic.

These days I’m getting very proud of myself.

Activate log4j.

Disclaimer: I’m talking about public data.

I have a two years old Symbian cell phone and a second generation iTouch.

I’m learning some technologies.

Sometimes you start to write because you need to write but you don’t know what you want to express.

Let’s start with politics.

I love this video: A few days ago I received a message from one of my tweeps about the weather in Europe and in particular in Spain.

It’s in the news.

A few days ago I promised to explain why I chose to become a civil servant, and why I keep being one.