Switching the ifs
I’m currently struggling with a philosophical dilemma related to the formatting of Javascript code, especially when dealing with multiple if statements while trying to avoid the Arrow code...
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A city break to Marrakech
I’ve decided to expand the categories covered on the blog to include travel & experiences. In the end, the blog’s title is Ramblings from an engineer’s life. And I will start the new travel...
View ArticleCrossbrowser testing with Nightwatch, Travis and Saucelabs
Last night I gave my presentation “Crossbrowser testing with Nightwatch, Travis and Saucelabs” at the April’s BarcelonaJS meetup. It was held at the Mobile World Centre, an awesome venue in literally...
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Protect your cards from RFID theft
I like contactless cards. It’s a fast way to pay in general and for amounts smaller than 20 euros, it’s even faster as I don’t have to enter my PIN. And the technology is catching on, for example, my...
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Nodeconf Barcelona 2017
Last Friday I attended Nodeconf Barcelona and I’m going to talk about the two most important features of any conference: food and stickers! Okay, maybe the most important aspect is the panel of...
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Participated in my first Kickstarter campaign
I think that by now, everybody is familiar with the concept of crowdsourcing, sites such as Kickstarter or Indiegogo and their associated problems. And if you’re not, in a nutshell it goes like this:...
View ArticleCustom assertions for Nightwatchjs
I’ve started using Nightwatch to write my end to end tests in Javascript. I found it to be an easy to use framework, that makes use of W3C Webdriver API – formerly known as Selenium – and exposes an...
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Agile resolutions
That time again, when we enter a new year and some of us do new year’s resolutions. Mostly by recycling the ones we had the previous year and the year before that and so on and so forth. And trust me...
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2 events
Lately I’ve been involved in 2 tech events in Barcelona, the first being HackUPC 2016 organised by students at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and sponsored by Skyscanner where I had the...
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Tools of the trade
As a developer, I use a variety of tools to do my day to day, each with its own level of usefulness: there are some I like but I could easy live without, there are those which I would gladly live...
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Rablings on AI overlods
Today I was having a conversation on Twitter on which future would be more frightening, one where politicians think they’re smarter than big data – which is more like the present – or one where we put...
View ArticleUbuntu 14.04 full screen on VirtualBox
I recently needed an Ubuntu box for project I am working on, but since I don’t have a dedicated computer for such experiments anymore, I had to virtualise it. VirtualBox is my weapon of choice for...
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Import Kindle highlights in Trello
Lately I had a lot of books to read, most of them technical in nature, but also some novels. While I did take speeding reading classes, I don’t always apply it, as I have different styles of reading a...
View ArticleThe accelerating power of technology
This is one of the most interesting talks I’ve seen lately, linking biology and technology and how evolution accelerates. I like from time to time to look at old videos and see how people imagined the...
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Pimp my laptop
Few months ago, I’ve decided to start adding stickers to my laptop. First batch of stickers came from PHP Barcelona Conference 2015 and since these ones were mainly PHP related (doh) and I wanted to...
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PHP Barcelona Conference 2015
I had the pleasure to attend the 2015 PHP Barcelona Conference this weekend and I decided to blog about the experience. The lineup was amazing and included Zeev Suraski, one of the founders of Zend and...
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Hacking the BCN house market
…is the name of the presentation I gave last week at the Barcelona Python Meetup, held for the first time on Skyscanner‘s premisses. It was supposed to be a lightning talk taking no more than 10...
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Uploadify on Zend Framework and the 302 error
Uploadify is an awesome script and it works like a charm. But – there’s always a but – sometimes it throws a mysterious 302 error. This happened to me all day long and it drove me crazy. Well, not...
View ArticleJavascript based Flash Player
I stumbled upon this Slashdot article, about Smokescreen, a Flash player written entirely in Javascript and which can…are you ready for this…run on the iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch. In your face mr. Jobs!!!...
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