Ireland Road Trip 2012

Erasmus in Ireland - Interview in Vox Uji Radio

Talking about studying abroad at Vox UJI Radio in the The English Tertulia with Margo and Dave.
Date: 21/02/12

Click here to listen the interview

The Engineer in Society - Apple manufacturing in China

This is a video that my classmates and I have created for a subject called the engineer in society in AIT. We parody the topic of Apple manufacturing in China.
I hope you have fun watching it! We have had fun recording it!

The Unconventional Guide To Working For Yourself

The Unconventional Guide To Working For Yourself is book easy to read that explains how to start making some money on the internet. Is quite small, it has just 54 pages and you can read it in a couple of hours.
The book is not going to tell you how to make a fortune but it will tell you how to start being more entrepeneour and maybe it will help you with small projects.

Developing a Web Store in Grails

This is an example of a Grails Project about developing a WebStore called Web Shop, here you can see some screen shoots of it.
I linked the pdf project file with all the description of the project and the all the code.

 

Download the PDF Project file here.
Download the web application here.

Tomato Alarm Clock!

Tomato Alarm is a Java Application that I developed as an assignment for a subject in AIT.
Here you can see some screen shoots of the application.

If you want to download Tomato Alarm for Mac, you can download it here and try it for free.
Download Tomato Alarm!

Blink: The power of thinking without thinking

I just finished reading Blink, another book from Malcolm Gladwell, the book is quite good but I would say that I prefer Outliers or The Tipping Point.

Blink is about the first two seconds of looking--the decisive glance that knows in an instant. Gladwell, the best-selling author of The Tipping Point, campaigns for snap judgments and mind reading with a gift for translating research into splendid storytelling. Building his case with scenes from a marriage, heart attack triage, speed dating, choking on the golf course, selling cars, and military maneuvers, he persuades readers to think small and focus on the meaning of "thin slices" of behavior. The key is to rely on our "adaptive unconscious"--a 24/7 mental valet--that provides us with instant and sophisticated information to warn of danger, read a stranger, or react to a new idea. Gladwell includes caveats about leaping to conclusions: marketers can manipulate our first impressions, high arousal moments make us "mind blind," focusing on the wrong cue leaves us vulnerable to "the Warren Harding Effect" (i.e., voting for a handsome but hapless president). In a provocative chapter that exposes the "dark side of blink," he illuminates the failure of rapid cognition in the tragic stakeout and murder of Amadou Diallo in the Bronx. He underlines studies about autism, facial reading and cardio uptick to urge training that enhances high-stakes decision-making.In this brilliant, cage-rattling book, one can only wish for a thicker slice of Gladwell's ideas about what Blink Camp might look like.--Barbara Mackoff