Name: Jesús Cerquides Bueno
Member since: 2001-11-10 10:44:29
Last Login: 2008-01-13 18:43:09
Homepage: http://www.maia.ub.es/~cerquide
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I started programming many years ago in a set of public computers (Apple II) in a public library. I had to reserve the computer three days in advance, just for one our. They were about one our walking distance from home, so I spent more time getting there and back than actually programming. After that Dad bought that old Spectrum 48K, and then the first PC.
Of course I studied Software Engineering, after seeing "Wargames". What I did not have clear is whether I wanted to be David Lughtman or Professor Falken, so I think I share a bit of both.
After finishing my degree I entered the IIIA (Artificial Intelligence Research Institute) for a PhD in AI. Then I jumped to Ubilab a Industrial Research Lab in Switzerland and then I co-founded iSOCO where I was Chief Technology Officer for three years. That meant little time for coding and a lot of time devoted to management so I decided to go back to academia and accepted a position at Universitat de Barcelona where I finished my PhD in December 2003.
I am currently teaching Software Engineering, Scripting Languages, Databases and Network Programming
Feel free to contact me at cerquide ensaimada iiia.csic.es (replace "ensaimada" by @).
Lots of changes since my last entry. So many that I am not going to report them here :p
Lately I am getting addicted to google videos. There are extremely nice videos on the educational track. A nice example is the talk about Human computation by Luis van Ahn.
I have finished version 1.0 of Real Components, a small plugin for Ruby on Rails. It can be download from here
The idea is to ease the automation of the development of sites where you can come to a page from several other pages and the usual behaviour is that you go back to the page from where you came.
It is my first Rails dev.
Lately I have been playing with several things:
Quite a long time since my last post.
I have connected to trabber. It is worth a try. Thanks to Óscar for developing it and sending an e-mail.
For unconfesable reasons, the last three days I have been trying to make a program that connects to a website in such a way that the owner is unable to distinguish it from a human. Maybe it seems obvious, but unless you have a very good knowledge of Internet Explorer or Mozilla internals + a good javascript interpreter this is very hard to do by coding (even using Perl's WWW::Mechanize). However, it is reasonably easy to do by using Internet Explorer as a component. This can be easily done using Python+win32com. So, I have learnt a bit of python and successfully developed the script. Furthermore, there is a nice tool named PAMIE that eases things even more. Well, the last three days I have been playing a bit with all these things, I must admit.
We (Francesc Sebastià and I) have developed a small program that allows a Windows user with the spanish keyboard to write polytonical greek. It is a nice tool that we hope we will be able to offer for free and open source (by now the Electra group is financing the development).
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New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
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If you're a C programmer with some spare time, take a look at the mod_virgule project page and help us with one of the tasks on the ToDo list!
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