When you're learning to code, you normally focus on making the thing do what you want it to do. Once you have that under control, you focus on making it work faster and more efficient. Then you actually start to more actively use and design patterns and you start to appreciate their beauty. And that's it for most people, at that point you're probably a senior developer with good ...  leer más

Lately I've been able to play around with loads of new technologies/frameworks (new to me, of course). Among these I should probably mention: JGroups, Hazelcast, Neo4J... But the one I'm working more these days is OSGI. I find OSGI particularly interesting because it solves one of the big drawbacks I saw to development in Java: deployment and management of component versioning (something that's not a problem in scripting languages ...  leer más

Finalmente, luego de un par de meses de arduo trabajo los nuevos sitios de eBay Anuncios, eBay Pisos y de eBay Coches están al aire y funcionando... todavía quedan algunos pequeños detalles que resolver, pero nada que sea demasiado impactante para la experiencia del usuario en las nuevas páginas. Ha sido un proyecto como ninguno en mi carrera profesional. El día 2 de Enero de este año empezó su ...  leer más