About
This is my personal blog about development, mainly focused on C# .NET development and bits of PHP but sometimes I write about other languages or more general topics, and game programming, one hobby I have a little on hold since things go very fast and available time is very limited.
Why this blog having another one about general development and computers? I wanted to use La Web de Programación for general knowledge, and this one for more specific topics, or for uploading a joke for computer geeks, for example. Also, many times I wish to put some source-code, and this is the correct place. And finally, LWdP is in spanish but I like to write in english to improve it.
What about you? Ok... I'm a .NET software developer, and recently too a PHP developer. I've been working since 2001, but I learned C and Assembler long time ago. I'm a computers & technology passionate (some would define me as a "geek" ;) and it is my sin to work on non-common development projects, so I've touched a lot of technologies. I knew Assembler, C, C++, Pascal, Visual Basic 3.0 to 6.0, ASP 3.0, and since 2004 I develop with C# and ASP.NET, looking some times to C++ code, but not writing it. I've also touched OpenGL and DirectX, and actually I'm learning XNA.
I started with computers when I was 7 and my father bought an AMSTRAD PC/W with space invaders, pong... From that moment I knew I wanted to create things with computers. I've had an Amiga 500 (too that was the moment I saw the first "demos" that came with the game trainers, and I got interested in the demoscene) before switching to PCs. With the PC, I wanted to modify games so I bought an Assembler book and learned some basics, until I learned C and later C++. Since then I've been learning non-stop new technologies and languages.
I like to help other people so I maintain another blog about development, I've written few articles for online and paper magazines, and I give speeches (usually related to game development) from time to time to my local dotNETClub, or in Microsoft events like the Madrid CodeCamp. I run a spanish website since 2001 that has lots of freely available manuals and tutorials, created to help people find as much information as possible.
To read more about me, you can click on the following links to see my online CV or my personal portfolio:
My portfolio (in spanish)
Apart from computers, I love music (curiously I love both electronic music and ethnic and celtic music), movies, making scale model dioramas and buildings, reading (from terror novels to medieval age history), going to parties, and talking (I talk a lot ;)
Why that ugly, cigar-smoking dog as the community and this blog logo? Well, after watching MiB (and later MiB II) I realized that Frank was the best character of both films, so I took a photo of him and he became my first avatar for almost every web forum in which I participated. He is a Pug dog, and likes women, smoking and talking a bit too much :)
What happened with the MVF awards of Kartones.Net? Well, some ideas grow up, and some decay. The Kartones.Net MVF awards just lost the interest to the readers and I decided to suspend them. Maybe they will come in the future, maybe not. Depends on feedback.