I'm so happy right now.

I was accepted in the European Master in Software Engineer program. This last weeks I was becoming more and more doubtful about my application. Last monday I was almost sure I wasn't going to get int. Luckily I was wrong.

Almost 1200 people applied and only about 30 were accepted. I suppose I should be flattered.

Last year I applied for a Software Engineer master program in europe. I have been a little anxious since then but according to what they told me the results should be published at some point during this february.

There are only three verdecits, being rejected, being accepted and being accepted with an erasmus mundus schoolarship. The latter is what I desire of course, but even without the erasmus schoolarship I suppose I could get support from the Conacyt.

I am in the middle of a pretty interesting Spring training. We started with the DI container which I am familiar with. What was really interesting was the last two sessions in which we learn about AOP basics.

I had read some papers about AOP (aspect oriented programming) but I really didn't understood it well until now. The way spring handles AOP was a nice surprise, the change of moving from spring xml tags to aspectj expressions was really pleasant.

Next sessions will be about SpringMVC and perhaps some Spring Securty. I'm looking forward to it.

I'm taking my firsts steps in learning ruby. I have been hearing good things about it for so long that I finally decided to give it a shot. 

It actually looks nice. I like Object Orientation and ruby seems to be better at it that most interpreted languages I've come around. Unfortunately it still lacks things like method overloading (the downsides of having dynamic data types I suppose). I do like the 'everything is an object' paradigm.

Anyway, I haven't learn enough to give a real opinion about it, so please don't take me very serious.

Don't you love when you find a simple solution for a problem that has bothering you for quite a while? I don't know why I didn't come up with the solution before but at least I did.

I love JSon's simplicity.

I will not even try to apologize for forgetting about this place. It's useless....

Recently I´ve working a lot with flat files. You know, parsing and writing them from/to objects. My first try was very ad hoc since I was using a very simple format. Unfortunately things changed and the need for several types of formats form multiple clients appeared.

Luckily I found a nice java library (named Flatworm) for parsing and writing files using a format defined in a XML file.

Amazing how quick time passes. It feels like yesterday when I was at my graduation ceremony.

Things at work have been pretty fine although sometimes work tends to accumulate. I am learning a lot. Developing using hibernate, spring and another few frameworks have proven to be a enjoyable but quite a challenge in an environment like the one MIT has.

Right now it's 9 pm and I am still in the office. I would like to get out of here right now, but sadly I'm wating for a 'job' that has to be processed today. Lucky me.

Things didn't go as well as i would like in Softtek. The company was good, the people was good. But I just hated the project I was assigned to. I simply could not stand it. It was boring, tedious and I wasn't going to learn anything useful.

By fortune a good oportunity showed up in another company named MIT. You probably haven't hear of it. It is a small company that provides finantial services , like credit/debit card payments with those little funny wireless gizmos that they use at restaurants, to many companies in Mexico.

Well, that's it. A few days ago I received a job proposal from Softtek and I accepted it.

Next monday will be my first day. The project looks interesting. It is not what I was originally looking for but I still expect a lot from it.

My friend Rodrigo dedicated me a post in his blog as a way of congratulate me. Don't miss it.

I will try to keep you informed about my experience in the company. So wait for it ;)

I have some updates for all my fans (mostly worried family ).

I have been talking with two companies that seem interested on me. One of them is a medium sized software development company and the other is a big transnational from NY.

I have been also contacted recently by a big mexican 'all purpose' company. They will hopefully interview me during the next two weeks.