Improved P2 requirements resolution

Today, I've been surprised and excited by a new Eclipse Kepler feature which should have come up with the last milestone (M7). I guess that more than one time you must be hit by the issue in which you want to update your Eclipse installation or some components of it and the IDE doesn't allow to do so because some prerequisites violation. Moreover, it's not trivial to realize what exactly is going wrong with the current installation configuration and the new components you want to install/update:

Beyond the Obvious: Experiment results

Today, I wanted to share the results of the experiment I run about the reasoning of why my housemates were not collaborating in throwing away the rubbish of the house. As I commented in that post, the goals of the experiment was two fold:

"1. Who finally is the other person who is throwing away the rubbish.
2. If my house mates now realize who is throwing the rubbish, and more importantly everybody knows who is not doing so, may be everybody start to collaborate."

After some days from the 26th of April, in which I put the new "gentle form" close to the bins to track who was throwing the rubbish away I decided to take a picture the same day I did that task again. Here we have the results:

Are you aware of "If This Then That"

Today I´ve signed up to a new promising web application which could help you in the task of social networking. Well, when I say new, I mean it´s new to me. I´ve been a little bit reluctant to deep into the world of social networking, but at some point I find it quite interesting. Now that I´ve started to blog again, and soon as you have more than one channel in which you usually come up, you suddenly feel the necessity of having "one tool to control them all" ;).

Predictable Software Systems

This week I've been very entertained with a new module of the Engineering Doctorate I'm doing at the University of York. Prior to the module lessons, I had my first talk in a seminar meeting for some of the Enterprise Systems Research Group's colleagues. Although I think that there were no more 10 people in the room, I found it as an ideal opportunity to start to show some mates the stuff I'm working on, and more interestingly, to detect any interest and spark new possibilities of collaboration around the topic.

Beyond the Obvious: Are my housemates a bunch of porks ?

Soon after I landed at York in January, I noticed that my housemates are not the cleanest people in the world. The fact that every Wednesday a housekeeper comes to our flat to clean the kitchen makes my mates mistakenly think that the kitchen doesn´t require any attention from them. Despite my preference of having a more frequently clean kitchen, let´s say that I can manage to live with some dirty cooker.

More seriously, I can´t wait 7 days looking at how the rubbish accumulates in the corner of a kitchen, so I quite frequently throw the rubbish away. Fortunately, one of my housemates probably has the same feelings, because in somehow we usually alternate in such a task. I had the suspicious that just one of them were so kind to look after everybody´s health, and in general I had the impression that my mates are a bunch of pigs which don´t mind living among rubbish...

Week's brief summary

I'll like to start this new refreshed blog by talking about some of the work I've been doing this week. Although the last weekend I had basically finished the assessment whose deadline was the 24th of April, I really spent some last editorial changes trying not to pass the 1000 words limit that was supposed to be for the 3 different reviews we had to do. It's doesn't look easy when you don't really know the final tool that is going to be used for that purpose: the only clue I had is "every word" counts...

 

What the hell was about this blog ?

If one have a look to the Blog Archive, one could suddenly realize that there has been like a big black hole during more than 3 years. What the hell was about it ? Well, basically hard work and other activities certainly non-related to publicly write to practice some use of English or sharing experiences through the broadband.