Categoría: noticia

Open source: new versions

In the last couple of weeks some new versions of open source projects have gone live.

In my opinion  the most interesting one is the first RTM release of Linq provider for NHibernate (NHibernate.Linq), at the moment it is a separete download, but it seems that it will be part of NHibernate’s Core package in future releases. [read more]

Also related to NHibernate, on July 14 it was published Castle Active Record 2.0 beta 1. It includes integration with NHibernate Search, basic Linq support and a feature to enable in-memory test. [read mode]

Spring Framework Team has schedule the release of Spring.Net 1.3 RC1 for July 29th, followed by the GA version on August 10th. [read more].

Finally, Sharp Architecture released the first RTM version on July 15th. [read more]

I hope to have some time during this week to show some examples of the new features of these new releases.

Enjoy it!

Wind of change

It’s been a while since my last post. It is because some things are changing: I ‘m leaving my job to continue my career in a another company, I’m working with my colleagues at university to implement some changes in our course and finally I am working on some proposals for upcoming conferences and publications (CodeCamp, IBM Developer works, Agiles2009, etc.).During this week, I will be posting some information about this proposals, so be around!.

Technical careers scholarships

The Argentine goverment is implementing a scholarship program called Becas Bicentenario with the aim of promoting the study of technical carrers. During the ’90 the Argentine industry suffer a lot, many factories closed. At the same time young people prefered to study humanist carrers. After the 2001 crisis, local industries start to expand again -and this expansion still continue. But there aren’t enough technitians to suppport this expansion and that is why the goverment has implemented this initiative. If you are interested, all the information is available at the official website.

SmallTalks 2008

Last Thursday, Friday and Saturday, it took place the Second Argentine Conference of Smalltalk: SmallTalks 2008. One of most interesting tracks I attended was the one given by Mariano Martinez Peck, Esteban Lorenzano and German Palacios about their project: SqueakDBX. It is a driver to allow Squeak applications to connect to relational databases, you can get more information in the official website.

Congratulations to the organization team, it was great event!.

New open source project

Yesterday I started a new open source project. It is a framework for developing video games with Java, using the MVC design pattern. My intention with this project is to help Algo3 students to develop their applications concentrating in the Model while the framework takes care of most of the complexities of the View and Controller. The name of the project is Titiritero and it is hosted in Google Code at this location: http://code.google.com/p/titiritero/

Chau Live Spaces, hola WordPress

Después de estar «viviendo» en Live Spaces por más de dos años, finalmente he mudado mi blog a este nuevo espacio en WordPress. La decisión estuvo motivada por algunas limitaciones de Live Spaces, entre las que se destacan: la imposibilidad de agregar tags a los posts, las limitaciones en la personalización estética y los asquerosos banners siempre presentes en el espacio. Pero nobleza obliga, también tengo que destacar las bondades de Live Spaces entre las que se encuentran: la posibilidad de publicar listas de items y galerias de fotos y la gran integración con el resto de los servicios de la plataforma Live.

Al mismo tiempo voy a aprovechar esta mudanza para concretar algunos otros cambios que tenía planificados desde hace un tiempo. En primer lugar, voy a cerrar mi blog sobre AOP y voy a integrar todo el contenido en este único blog. Por otro lado, para satisfacer los pedidos de algunos amigos globales que no hablan castellano voy a empezar a escribir en inglés.

Tal vez alguno se esté preguntando como fue que hize la migración de los post desde Live Spaces a WordPress, bien en breve lo voy a comentar, pero definitivamente es parte de otro post.