My name is David Pérez, and I live in the sunny Barcelona (Spain).
I studied telecommunication engineering. I was taught the Pascal language. Of course, I've forgotten it.
I started programming professionally in plain C and assembler (microcontrollers) in the late 80's. In the early 90's, I introduce C++ to my team. I used to work in industrial environmnents, where reliability is important, and problems like memory leaks are easy to appear, as they work day and night. I mastered this language, but realized it wasn't very productive when I began working with .NET, in the beta stages. It was quite good for being beta, even the lack of documentation at that time.
.NET was inspired by Java, but started working seriously later. Ever since, I've been working with open source technologies, and stop working with Microsoft Techmologies. It has been an amazing experience, to start collaborating with people foreign to my company, and submit patches to projects like iText or Jython.
In 2007 I became a developer of Qooxdoo, a powerful Javascript framework at its time.
In the latest years, I'm very involved with Scala language and surrounding technologies like SBT, Spray, and Slick. It's a natural transition from the Java world. I'll talk about in future posts.
It's important to submit patches, and propose improvements to the authors, and if possible do it yourself. In Internet, we can be passive consumers or actively change the world.
Nowadays, thanks to github and git, collaboration it's easier than never before. So the number of projects are increasing exponentially.
- My github page.
- My stackoverflow profile.
- My Linkedin profile.
My name is David Pérez, and I live in the sunny Barcelona (Spain).
I studied telecommunication engineering. I was taught the Pascal language. Of course, I've forgotten it.
I started programming professionally in plain C and assembler (microcontrollers) in the late 80's. In the early 90's, I introduce C++ to my team. I used to work in industrial environmnents, where reliability is important, and problems like memory leaks are easy to appear, as they work day and night. I mastered this language, but realized it wasn't very productive when I began working with .NET, in the beta stages. It was quite good for being beta, even the lack of documentation at that time.
.NET was inspired by Java, but started working seriously later. Ever since, I've been working with open source technologies, and stop working with Microsoft Techmologies. It has been an amazing experience, to start collaborating with people foreign to my company, and submit patches to projects like iText or Jython.
In 2007 I became a developer of Qooxdoo, a powerful Javascript framework at its time.
In the latest years, I'm very involved with Scala language and surrounding technologies like SBT, Spray, and Slick. It's a natural transition from the Java world. I'll talk about in future posts.
It's important to submit patches, and propose improvements to the authors, and if possible do it yourself. In Internet, we can be passive consumers or actively change the world.
Nowadays, thanks to github and git, collaboration it's easier than never before. So the number of projects are increasing exponentially.
- My github page.
- My stackoverflow profile.
- My Linkedin profile.
- My blog about software development.