Python UK Conference 2013

Last month I went to the Python UK Conference 2013, in Coventry. It was a very interesting conference! It was my first time there. It’s a conference where the delegates really help organize it with talks, chairing sessions, etc. (all voluntarily).

I learned quite a lot: about Python and software engineering in general. Many talks […]

The Big Bang Theory: Bernadette song

Bernadette song: The Big Bang Theory

This is one of the top-10 moments of The Big Bang Theory:

I liked the lyrics, the singing… everything!

And after this song I had to go and listen to some of the songs of Helen Arney, such as:

As you might know I like Festival of […]

Caganer, caga tió…

Fa temps sense voler em va sortir un acudit!

A la feina em diuen que tenim una fixació, perquè veuen que tenim el Caga Tió, el Caganer (en tinc dos a la taula). I jo els hi vaig dir que anessin a cagar!!

(bé, potser alguna fixació sí que tenim?)

Scarborough and East Coast

Two months ago I went to Scarborough. Nice time to finally see someone from Scarborough Linux User Group: Catux and Scarborough group are “sister LUGS”.

We used to chat in the Catux mailing list in 2005 and 2006. 8 years later we met eachother. Amazing!

On the way there one of the trains got delayed […]

MultiBit on Debian Wheezy: “Connecting…” instead of “Online”

I installed MultiBit (a Bitcoin client) on my Debian Wheezy. I didn’t know much about Bitcoin so I thought that I’ll install and play around about with it.

I installed Multibit using the “Linux/Unix Installer” (see the instructions).

I ran MultiBit but it didn’t connect to the network. The bottom-left status message always said Connecting… […]

Twitter2Rss in Python (and how I use Twitter)

When Twitter stopped serving RSS feeds, around May 2013 I think, I implemented a small and light Python Twitter-API to RSS proxy. It connects to Twitter using their API, reads the Tweets and generates RSS or Json.

The Json output is similar to the output served by the Twitter API but if you use this […]

The Cambridge Centre for Computing History (computer museum)

On Saturday I went to the new Cambridge Centre for Computing History. Or just.. The Computer Museum.

Hats off to this museum! If you are interested in computers you should really go to the Computing History museum in Cambridge and also to the The National Museum of Computing in Bletchley, which is convenient because Bletchley […]

Mendeley: hiring C++ software engineer

We are hiring for different positions at Mendeley (now part of Elsevier). In the team where I work we are hiring a C++/Qt software engineer (see other positions). The C++/Qt position is to further develop Mendeley Desktop, which works on Windows, Linux and Mac.

See the official job description, but bear in mind that we […]

Hackday: teaching Python to non-programmers

At Mendeley we have one hackday a month. One day, every month, we can do whatever we want more or less related to our jobs, technologies, etc.

Some months ago I thought that it could be interesting to teach Python to the non-programmers (business, HR, etc.). I wanted them to understand what we do all […]

Sunday Assembly Crowdfunding

Short version: Sunday Assembly (congregation without God) is crowdfunding to build a better website / other activites. You can donate.

In London I’ve been to different ceremonies: Catholic, Orthodox, Christian, Budhist, Protestant, etc. I like to see the churches/temples, how they conduct the ceremony, their traditions, how attendants behave, etc.

In one of my visits […]