Carlos Matallín

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Openness, about software and personality

If you do a quick search in Google (or your favourite search engine, instead) of the word Openness you will mostly find techie-related stuff. Open source, Free Software and on and on and on…

However if you digg deeper – or go straight to the wikipedia article –  you will find that not only this is a way of software development but also a way of life. Literally:

Openness is a philosophy that is being used as the basis of how various groups and organizations operate. It is a relatively new term to describe this general way of doing things.

Of course, this is obvious, but I’d like to emphasize this relationship between software and personality.

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Evento Blog España ‘08: The Chronicles

AWESOME.

That was my experience at EBE08, I still can’t believe I’ve had one of the greatest weekends ever.

I practally had more hope to attend than really was certain of my presence to the biggest event in the Spanish blogosphere because until the very last moment I still didn’t know how I would arrive to the Hispalense city (yes, if we are talking about Seville, it MUST be called that way, as well as we call Barcelona the Condal city… but that’s another story). But finally I did.

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A part of my life has been stolen

From some time now I’ve been working in a quite big project that took me away from blogging. In fact, I would have rather redesigned the blog (something I have in my mind and in my To-Do list) before taking up my posting habits.

However, yesterday occured something that couldn’t keep me shut anymore. As the title says, I was stolen.

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