Books read in 2022
For me, 2022 was a year marked by frustration, disappointment and some really dark thoughts. However, looking back I also remember some very important achiev...
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2022
Hosting a cyber-security workshop for a software development team
I was asked to run a security workshop for my team and, since this was my first time with a workshop aimed at security, I must confess that at first I had no...
2021
Books read in 2021
The last day of 2021 brings hope for the end of the pandemic but it also brings fear that this hope stays as a simple dream for yet another year. A couple of...
Embracing timelessness
I have always been an advocate for progress in technology. To me, old tech becomes basically useless the moment a new alternative appears. Why would somebody...
2020
Books read in 2020
The end of another year is here and that means I should take a moment to reflect and meditate about this year’s events. If you have read the previous yea...
2019
Books read in 2019
This year I was very absent from this blog. I apologize for that, but I have been extremely busy with work and some personal projects.
2018
Libros leídos en 2018
Diría que 2018 fue probablemente el año más caótico de mi vida, pero me he dado cuenta que cada año opino lo mismo, lo cual no es buena señal. Este ca...
Optimizing your resume with LaTeX
For a long time I’ve had a love-hate relationship with my own resume.
Obtaining the Google Analytics Individual Qualification (GAIQ)
A few days ago I got the Google Analytics Individual Qualification. This was one of my year’s resolutions so I am quite happy about it, but whil...
2017
Libros leídos en 2017
01 – “The life-changing magic of tidying up: The japanese art of decluttering and organizing”, de Marie Kondo.
Portable Stream and Batch Processing with Apache Beam
I had the opportunity to attend another one of the Wizeline’s academy sessions. This time, it was about Apache Beam, a Batch and Stream processi...
Analyzing movie rating data from an IMDB.com dataset using Python, Pandas and Matplotlib
Since the dawn of cinema, the quality and enjoyment produced by motion pictures has been a complicated and controversial subject. An entire sub-indust...
Probando Microsoft SQL Server en Linux
Hace años, nunca hubiera pensado escribir un título como ese, pero las cosas cambian y Microsoft ahora está prestando atención a otros ambientes que n...
Getting out of the maze with A star
A local IT company (who shall remain unnamed in this post and shall be thankful for that) was offering free tickets to this year’s Campus Party ...
DevOps crash course at Wizeline
Prelude
Trip to Las Vegas
In the last post I wrote about my work in Las Vegas, but I did not write about two fundamental aspects: The city and its people.
IBM Interconnect 2017
I had the opportunity to attend IBM Interconnect 2017. This was my first time attending a serious technical conference and I must say that it was an e...
Advertencia de fraudes con RetroPie
Después del rotundo y controvertido éxito del mini NES de Nintendo, parece ser que surgió un mercado para pequeñas consolas retro. Esto realmente no e...
WipEout HD / Fury
Title: WipEout HD / Fury.
2016
Libros leídos en el 2016
Este 2016 fue un año bastante caótico en muchos sentidos, lo cual resultó en que no cumplí con mi meta de leer cuando menos un libro por cada mes del ...
Massively modifying images with ImageMagick
Web editors often have the need to edit a large number of images. For example, the large image size of professional cameras tends to be overkill for m...
Viaje a Nueva York 2: The return of the pizza.
Como mencioné en el post anterior, desde antes de llegar a México ya tenía otro boleto a mi nombre con destino a Nueva York. Esto fue idea y maquinaci...
Broken WordPress after Ubuntu 16.04 upgrade
After some delays, I finally upgraded the server’s OS to the LTS Ubuntu 16.04. At first I thought that everything went fine, but then I tried to...
Viaje a Japón. Parte 3: Osaka y Kyoto.
Aquí están los preparativos de viaje. Aquí, la travesía por Tokyo y Yokohama.
Viaje a Japón. Parte 2: Tokyo y Yokohama.
Aquí están detallados los preparativos para el viaje. Aquí la travesía por Osaka y Kyoto.
Viaje a Japón. Parte 1: Preparando el viaje.
Aquí la travesía por Tokyo y Yokohama. Aquí la travesía por Osaka y Kyoto.
Comptia Linux+ certification
I recently completed the Comptia Linux+ certification. I spent much more time than I previously hoped on this, and because of that, I wanted to write ...
Web syndication: The most useful thing nobody uses.
In Alan Moore’s seminal comicbook Watchmen, the retired superhero Ozymandias (considered the smartest man in the planet), now an extremely succe...
Introduction to Apache Spark
Spark is an open source cluster computing framework widely known for being extremely fast. It was started by AMPLab at UC Berkeley in 2009. Now it is ...
Introduction to Raspberry Pi, OpenELEC and RetroPie
Being such a good boy finally was worth it, and last Christmas Santa Briana gave me a Raspberry Pi 2 Model B. Not only that, but she went the extra mi...
Installing and configuring a Hadoop cluster
As I mentioned in a previous post, Hadoop has great potential and is one of the best known projects for Big Data. Now, let’s take a deeper look ...
2015
Libros leidos en el 2015
01- “Python for informatics”, de Dr. Charles Severance.
Introduction to Apache Hadoop
Hadoop is an open source project from the Apache foundation that was created thinking that hardware components in a network are prone to failure and t...
El blog ha muerto, ¡larga vida al blog!
Desde finales del siglo pasado y durante la primera década del siglo XXI, cuando las masas aún recordaban (y usaban) acrónimos como IRC, MSN, ICQ, e i...
Viaje a NY (Tercera y última parte)
(Aquí están la primera y segunda parte).
Lessons learned from the IBM DST Technical Exchange Program, or the importance of mentorship
During September, IBM’s Development Support Team organized a Technical Exchange Program. Basically, it was a week of conferences by DST members ...
Reporting REST data with DataTables and Bootstrap
Recently, I was requested to make a webpage to report data consumed via JSON to do a demonstration of RESTful architectures. I am not really a web dev...
Viaje a NY (segunda parte)
(La primera parte está aquí.)
Viaje a NY (primera parte)
Para no hacer la historia larga, trabajando con ex-funcionarios de la administración Carter (que fueron obligados a retirarse prematuramente por razon...
Running a Flask application in an Apache subdirectory
I wanted to have a “main” Apache-served site with a Flask application running alongside it, but in a subdirectory. I.e. mysite.com and mys...
The power of the return code
The correct handling of return values made my life as a programmer much easier. That is the whole purpose of their creation. I can write code that wil...
Fallout 3: Game of the year edition
Developer: Bethesda Game Studios
2014
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of time 3D
Title: The legend of Zelda: Ocarina of time 3D.
Libros leidos en el 2014
01 – “The Unix Haters Handbook”, de Simson Garfinkel, Daniel Weise y Steven Strassmann.
Massive Open Online Courses and their impact on the educative system.
In the past, education was only available to a select few. Even fewer had the means and the interest in completing a formal education. Since Plato fou...
Contributing to noble causes using BOINC and the World Community Grid
For the first time in history, mankind has the means and tools to collaborate globally and instantly in any challenge we decide to tackle. However, th...
How to change the resources of cloud servers using Tivoli Service Automation Manager
In order to modify the resources of a Cloud server, you need to do the following: In this example we will add disk space to an AIX cloud...
Python examples
I had a lot of fun doing Python exercises for an online training course I took. Here are several of them that could be useful if somebody else is lear...
Programadores vs. Sysadmins
Hace poco tomé una decisión importante en cuanto a la dirección de mi carrera.
Gallup/Clifton signature themes
Many years of research conducted by The Gallup Organization suggest that the most effective people are those who understand their strengths and behavi...
Troubleshooting IBM Installation Manager
Sometimes, when you try to run IBM Installation Manager (IM), you may get an error like this:
No fueron once
A pesar de que soy un recluso mediático, y que trato deliberadamente de serlo aún más en estas fechas mundialistas, llegó a mis ojos un escándalo prot...
How to grant read and write permissions in DB2
In older versions of DB2, the ever useful command “grant dataaccess” was not implemented yet. So, in order to grant permissions over a who...
El significado de los logros.
Hace poco participé en mi primera carrera “oficial”. Corrí 5 kilómetros sin parar.
“Ilusión nacional” es nominada a la película más naca del año.
México.- La autoproclamada “película” deportiva de Olallo Rubio fue nominada como la cinta más naca del año.
Kippel
Esta debió ser la primera entrada en este blog, no lo fue. Una amigo me preguntó por el nombre de este blog, y creo que la mejor manera de responderle...
Libros leidos en el 2013
01-Gray hat hacking: The ethical hackers handbook (3rd Edition), de Allen Harper, Shon Harris, Jonathan Ness y Chris Eagle.
2013
Sobre las “mujeres interesadas”
El otro día tuve una revelación. Por fin comprendí la razón por la cuál hay tantas “mujeres interesadas”.
El consumo del pan puerquito se recupera a niveles anteriores a la gripe porcina del 2009
México.- La Cámara Nacional de la Industria Panificadora (CANAINPA) hoy anunció que las ventas del pan puerquito han alcanzado los niveles que tenían ante...
Advantages of version control systems for agile software development.
It is baffling that some teams and companies still do not know how to use version control systems, but it is even more baffling to see that some devel...
Review de “Gray hat hacking”
Título: Gray hat hacking: The ethical hacker’s handbook (3rd edition).
Influencias.
A lo largo de mi vida he tenido influencias poderosas, muchas de las cuales fueron malas y sólo sirvieron como mal ejemplo. Otras fueron muy benéficas y c...