Writings about software engineering, public speaking, community events and being a curious learnerhttps://orestes.io/https://orestes.io/blog/cloud-study-jam-road-trip-portugal/https://orestes.io/blog/cloud-study-jam-road-trip-portugal/A little bit over a week ago, I received an invitation from Google to come along on a week-long road trip through Portugal, facilitating Cloud Study Jams and maybe delivering a talk here and there. I couldn't pass on the opportunity and jumped on board!Fri, 05 Apr 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://orestes.io/blog/iot-aog-workshop/https://orestes.io/blog/iot-aog-workshop/This summer I worked on a talk about IoT projects and how to control them using the Google Assistant via Actions on Google. Both topics working together are fascinating and really make me feel like we live in the future. “Hey Google! Turn on the lights!”. And it works! I can’t get over it.Thu, 29 Nov 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://orestes.io/blog/devfest-galicia-2017/https://orestes.io/blog/devfest-galicia-2017/El 16 de Diciembre de 2017 celebramos el primer Google Developer Groups DevFest en Galicia. Contamos con speakers de Google, IBM Research y empresas locales como Optare Solutions. Este es el resumen de la jornada.Mon, 18 Dec 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://orestes.io/blog/one-month-nine-events/https://orestes.io/blog/one-month-nine-events/Two weeks ago I was fully depleted of energy, laying on bed with a jumbo-sized headache. Thinking about my list of commitments made me anxious.Mon, 02 May 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://orestes.io/blog/broken-window-effect/https://orestes.io/blog/broken-window-effect/Lazy descriptionSun, 24 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://orestes.io/blog/first-100-people-conference/https://orestes.io/blog/first-100-people-conference/We wanted to host a free event, at a central location, with a variety of talk topics and accomplished speakers. I wanted to make get past the 100 attendants mark for a challenge.Mon, 11 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://orestes.io/blog/where-spend-most-time/https://orestes.io/blog/where-spend-most-time/Think about it. Make a list of the top five places.Mon, 18 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://orestes.io/blog/codemotion-madrid-2015/https://orestes.io/blog/codemotion-madrid-2015/Lazy descriptionTue, 01 Dec 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://orestes.io/blog/unfinished-business/https://orestes.io/blog/unfinished-business/Lazy descriptionTue, 30 Jun 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://orestes.io/blog/communities/https://orestes.io/blog/communities/Lazy descriptionMon, 15 Jun 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://orestes.io/blog/starting-up/https://orestes.io/blog/starting-up/Lazy descriptionSun, 31 May 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://orestes.io/blog/growing-talent/https://orestes.io/blog/growing-talent/Lazy descriptionWed, 15 Apr 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://orestes.io/blog/learning/https://orestes.io/blog/learning/I've been reviewing my progress over the past five years in Barcelona and Focus On Emotions. There's a ton of stuff that I've put into practice since I moved here. Most of this would be a bit overkill for simple projects, but I consider these practices are vital for any project involving more than one developer. All of these techniques were put to practice in personal projects first, and then brought into my regular job as Director of Software Development. Having a team to work together through the issues we found implementing these was really helpful.Sun, 15 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://orestes.io/blog/leaving-focus-on-emotions/https://orestes.io/blog/leaving-focus-on-emotions/I'm writing this sitting at the cafe in the OVD Asturias airport. Javier Morales and I have been delegating our tasks to the Software Development team based of Gijón. We're closing up the Software Development Department in Barcelona, everything will be moved up here.Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://orestes.io/blog/facebook-hacker-cup/https://orestes.io/blog/facebook-hacker-cup/I've been entering Facebook's Hacker Cup for a few years now. Some years I've gotten past a couple of rounds, others I haven't done so well. Anyways, I really like participating and I decided to share my setup.Wed, 14 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://orestes.io/blog/a-new-chapter/https://orestes.io/blog/a-new-chapter/In 2010 I had been working on public administration projects for two years. For me Tenerife was a great place to live for a while, but not to stay forever, let alone to stay for work. There simply was no tech job market. When I got fed up, I decided to move and leave the island (there's a LOST pun in here somewhere) looking for something better. I teamed up with a coworker, we quit together and moved to BarcelonaSun, 30 Nov 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://orestes.io/blog/javascript-activex-led/https://orestes.io/blog/javascript-activex-led/The simple ActiveX control would trigger a security warning on IE. We suppressed this warning by implementing a few visible COM methods flagged as `[Serializable, ComVisible(true)]` which come from the `[IObjectSafety](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa751977(v=vs.85).aspx)` interfaceSun, 21 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://orestes.io/blog/what-is-niantic-project/https://orestes.io/blog/what-is-niantic-project/I found a few cool pictures while googling around and I wanted to save some for later, but I accidentally saved this one as a .html file and that's when things got weirdMon, 10 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://orestes.io/blog/petr-mitrichev/https://orestes.io/blog/petr-mitrichev/I first learned about **Petr Mitrichev** the past year when he won 2011's Facebook Hacker Cup. He's a Google developer leading the current competitive programming challenges. He also keeps an interesting blog at [petr-mitrichev.blogspot.com](http://petr-mitrichev.blogspot.com) where he talks about algorithms and sometimes challenges his readers with some problemsFri, 16 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://orestes.io/blog/nfc-bootcamp-barcelona/https://orestes.io/blog/nfc-bootcamp-barcelona/Lazy descriptionWed, 14 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT