Fer

El 20-N

2011-11-20T08:35:00.000-08:00

El 20-N

El día ha llegado.
Cuando se decide quién gobernará en nuestro país por los siguientes 4 años.
Todo apunta a que habrá un cambio de gobierno y que el centro-derecha volverá a gobernar después de 8 años bajo gobierno socialista.

Prensa, media, blogs, etc... no se cansan de culpar al actual gobierno, y en concreto al actual presidente. Mi opinión es que, sea quien sea el que esté en el poder, y dada la naturaleza del pueblo español en los últimos años, será criticado por activa y por pasiva.
Hasta que nuestra manera de pensar y actuar no cambie lo más mínimo, no creo que experienciemos mucho cambio en nuestra sociedad.

Por supuesto se pueden tomar medidas, por supuesto se pueden tomar decisiones que hagan mayor impacto en la sociedad, por supuesto que se pueden hacer las cosas mejor. Pero, ¿se pueden hacer las cosas mejor para que la totalidad de la población esté contenta? Difícil lo veo...

Ahora más que nunca es cuando un país se tiene que unir, comprenderse y trabajar juntos para el bien de la nación y la sociedad de bienestar construída durante muchos años. Algo que me parece, entra en cabeza de unos pocos.

Sinceramente creo que la culpa de esta situación no está solo en las fronteras de nuestro país, y de que la situación se daría tanto si gobiernan unos como otros...

¿Podrá nuestro nuevo gobierno hacer algo en contra de la situación actual?
¿Podrá nuestro nuevo gobierno parar el crecimiento del desempleo?
¿Podrá nuestro nuevo gobierno cumplir todas nuestras expectativas?

Mi opinón es, como he mencionado previamente, que no todo se puede resolver internamente y que los mercados externos tienen mucho que decir al respecto. Díficil se plantea, pero no imposible.

Con las últimas líneas de este post me gustaría esperar de hoy un día con un alto índice de participación democrática, desear suerte a todos los partidos políticos democráticos y sobre todo al que tome las riendas de nuestro país. La situación no es fácil y ahora más que nunca los esfuerzos y el trabajo continuo deben ser llevados a cabo.

Gracias a todos por seguirme,

Un saludo.
Fernando

Documentales recomendados:
Inside Job (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzrBurlJUNk) (Trailer)
Debtocracy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKpxPo-lInk) (Película completa)

Vota

2011-10-22T11:24:00.001-07:00

Después de mi último viaje a Varsovia por el mero hecho de poder votar en las elecciones del 20N en mi país, he creído oportuno el escribir un artículo en mi blog con ninguna otra finalidad que la de concienciar a la poblacion española que lea este artículo, de la importancia de su voto.

Historia de la democracia...

Sentado en un tren con dirección a Varsovia para registrarme en la embajada española y ser capaz de enviar mi voto por correo el 20N, me motivó para escribir este post (El viajar sólo también tuvo algo que ver...)

Azul,rojo,rosa,verde (ordenados alfabéticamente), sea cual sea el color que se elija, lo esencial en estos momentos es que se vote, que se exprese el derecho que tenemos a elegir quien nos gobierne.
No vale un "me da pereza", un "hoy esta lloviendo", un "es que no se a quien votar", o un "que mas da, nos van a robar igual tanto unos como otros" (este ultimo, lo he escuchado varias veces). Esa no es la cuestión. Lo que de verdad importa es que podamos dar a entender que nuestra palabra vale, que somos nosotros, y no sólo ellos los que tenemos voz en nuestro país.

Con respecto a cómo se nos va a gobernar, eso no es tan fácil de elegir.
15S, 15O, Grecia, Italia, wall street, todo son manifestaciones solicitando lo mismo, un cambio. Un cambio en cómo se nos gobierna. Un cambio que nos permita organizarnos mejor, administrar nuestras riquezas (en el caso de los países del siglo XXI: deuda) apropiadamente, estructurar mejor la sociedad que nos permita encontrar así nuestro hueco en el cual podamos aportar el máximo a nuestro país y donde nuestro país nos recompense al máximo por ese trabajo duro y bien hecho, que todos ansiamos por llevar a cabo y ofrecer a la sociedad. Todo con el fin de tener una vida mejor para nosotros, los nuestros y los que estan por venir.

Para esto tenemos, ahora mas que nunca, que ser inconformistas, opinar, escribir, hacernos oír con todos los medios que hoy en día estan a nuestra disposición. No darnos por vencidos e intentar en todo momento dar nuestra opinión para solucionar los problemas que nos afectan en estos momentos de adversidad.
Para hacer todo eso, se empieza por ejercer nuestro derecho a voto eligiendo así a nuestros representantes en congreso de los diputados.

Habiendo escrito en tono genérico durante ciertas líneas, me gustaría dar mi opinion acerca de lo que creo conveniente para nuestros proximos líderes a tener en cuenta.
Escuchad al español, a ese español que se desvive por trabajar, por ver su pais mejorar, y a sus gentes prosperar. Ese español que puede ser un empresario de PYME, un gran ejecutivo, una mente científica privilegiada, un poeta, un artista, un ingeniero, un doctor, un soldado, un/una am@ de casa... Pero seguirá siendo ese español que busca un hueco en esta sociedad, que hoy en día tiene pocas puertas abiertas, y las que están abiertas, cuesta cruzarlas...
Confien en ese español, y no se verán defraudados.

Para aquellos que no esten al dia de mi situación, todo esto lo escribo desde el extranjero, desde Polonia, un país que aunque no tan desarrollado como España en infraestructuras o servicios sociales, me abrió las puertas laborales siendo recién licenciado hace 1 año y medio, antes incluso que mi propio país.

Participa, habla, cambia, ayuda, actua, no te conformes...
Vota.

Fukushima nuclear danger...

2011-03-12T08:48:00.000-08:00

I wanted to share my understanding in here.
It seems that the Fukushima nuclear plant (with a Boiling Water Reactor)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_water_reactor

is having a problem with cooling:
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/11/japan.nuclear/index.html

The cooling systems are responsible for cooling down the reactor vessel and keep them away from meltdown (Chernovyl case).

So, let's hope that they'll manage to keep that reactor cooled down and the meltdown will be nothing else but science fiction in this case.

My support to all the affected Japanese people.

Weekend in Warsaw for Qt training

2010-12-04T03:13:00.000-08:00

After not having much contact with Qt during the last months,
I decided to enter a new Nokia training in Warsaw. Qt for N8 and Symbian^3 devices.
Actually, the platform was not the most important point of the conference since you could do testing with Symbian S60 3rd edition, Maemo or the N8s provided by Forum Nokia to test in site.

The training consisted in two days, first one for beginners in Qt developing, more focused on just explaining what Qt is and how it interacts with different platforms, and second one more focused on advanced functionalities of Qt.

I have to say that the platform really improved from last time I had contact with it last year December in Copenhagen. Deploying for Maemo 5 was much more tedious that it is right now. And, apart from that, deploying for desktop, Symbian S60, Symbian^3 and Maemo, is really transparent for the Qt developer.

I think that all the effort that Nokia is putting on the Qt platform will bloom probably when the MeeGo platform will start using all the knowledge of the people who are developing for Qt right now.
But nothing can be assured, since Android and iOS are also going forward.
Let's see what 2011 is going to end up with.
It seems to be an interesting war :)

Our balance

2010-12-04T02:46:00.000-08:00

My habits change a bit since I started to work and the blog was excluded of my habits.
I really hope I can catch up now and keep blogging more often!

Just coming back from Scotland and having some conversations with my friend Virginia, currently living in Glasgow, I was willing to talk about a very important thing in life for everybody. Our balance.

Is it more important to go out with your friends that night?
Or on the other hand it is more important to stay with your couple?
Is the job the most important part of your life? Do you think that it deserves all the time that you dedicate to it? Or you should dedicate more effort and strength to the people, family and friends?

These are questions that from my point of view are not really easy to answer. And for each of us the answers are different.
There is where we have to find the balance that will make us feel happy, comfortable with what we do and towards people who are around us.

I hope you all are finding your balance and you are happy with it!

Picture in Glasgow with Vir and Ewe:

And here a joke about Scottish accent:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3JcHhA7M-Y
No ofense!

Cheers mates!

¡Feliz día mamá!

2010-05-02T00:30:00.000-07:00

Bien se sabe que solo hay un día de la madre al año, pero para ella, todos los días son los días del hijo, así que que menos que dedicarle a mi querida madre unas líneas en este mi modesto rincón de internet.
Siempre atenta, siempre expectante, siempre servicial, siempre ahí cuando se necesita.

Feliz día a todas las madres.

¡Feliz día mamá!

¡Gracias por estar siempre ahí!

Te quiere,
tu hijo Fer :)

P.S. Escuchando Canteros, de Felpeyu. Haciéndome estar un paso más cerca de la tierrina.

The day when I can breathe has come

2010-03-23T08:27:00.000-07:00

After so much searching, after so much suffering and after so much patience, the day has come.

The day when I can say that I finished my studies, when I can say that I have something more than the high school studies, the day when I can say also that I am starting working, working in the field of my studies and in the field I feel so motivated.

After spending in Poland 2 weeks and a half (From February 17 until March 5) sitting 3 job interviews (Feb 17-Mobica.pl in Warsaw, Feb 19-Motorola technical panel in Krakow, March 2- Motorola HR Krakow) and to attend a day with Nokia Siemens Networks in Wroclaw (On Feb 25), on Monday the 8th I received a call from Motorola Krakow, telling me that they want me to work for them and to start working on March 16. I was quite excited, since looking for a job was starting to be quite stressful and everything but easy.

After the conversation I realized that I would not be easy to start on that day since I had to defend my thesis in Spain and the procedure was not one day long.
So the next date that the girl told me was 7th of April. A perfect date to have time for defending the thesis, to see some friends, to see and tell the family and to spend some time with my lovely family.

Detail: corporate building of Motorola in Krakow

So that was it, I arranged the defense for Thursday 18 March, 2010, having it at 9:00am.
One of the members of the jury was late and it was carried out with only two of them.
Anyway, and after not so much preparation I did not exceed the time (around 20 mins) and they gave me a higher mark than expected (9 out of 10), so I was more than happy after that, feeling that I was done with studies, that I achieved something big that day and all the previous work done was really really worth it.
Here you can have a look to a picture taken after the defense with the great groups of friends who came to see me at 9:00am defending my thesis:

Detail: From left to right: Lucía, Carmen, me, Alberto, David and Ángela.

I really thank them to come, you were so brave guys!! :)

About the job offer, my father was, actually, astonished and very happy for the first step I am taking in my professional career. He was so afraid of me taking a job with not good conditions and not appropriate for me. Now, he really breathes and feels the relief.
On the other hand, my mother always feels that her son is leaving home, now for good, and she was wishing to have me living at home until I don't know when...
Don't worry mom! I'll be always available when needed! ;)

My little 10 years old sister is in a similar situation, she wishes me luck with my new stage and hopes to see me soon in Krakow! (She starts very soon thinking of traveling :) )

True, I have to say goodbye to family and friends again. But a new exciting stage in life has come, a new door has been opened and I cannot miss this train, because it is sure that it comes only once...

For everyone that is reading me, please keep in mind that I am living in Krakow from April the 7th on, so if you need something or you are thinking of passing by, please let me know. You know where to find me!

A big hug for everyone and thanks for reading.

Fernando

Ever closer!

2010-02-09T18:58:00.000-08:00

Yes, it is true.
The first completed and edited release of my thesis is done. It is a reality.
After several months of learning, testing, hitting my head against the walls and many other fruitful experiences, it is done.

I have just sent it to my teacher in Poland, who has to correct it and give me the mark. I guess I'll have to smooth some things, but I feel like some weight is already off from me.

Tomorrow I'll sleep due to the lack of hours of sleep that I have right now.
Regarding that it is 4am, I guess I'll be sleeping until the morning dies...
When does the morning die? It depends on the perception of each of us. For me tomorrow I guess it'll die at 12 or 1pm :)

Good night!

Lots of news!

2010-02-09T03:25:00.000-08:00

Let's say that today is a good mood day, as well as a fully loaded one!

First of all, I have been interviewed by Motorola Krakow for the test engineer position that they are offering.
It was just a first-step for checking my technical knowledge in communications, protocols and some other fields related with the job that they are carrying out there.

The writing of my thesis is finished in its beta version. Only the approval of my tutor in Krakow is needed for the next step, the defense.

Yesterday I've been with the group of software development for the Nokia S60 touchscreen devices and we are pretty excited and motivated about it, with new ideas, proposals and work to perform! (Thanks to the WRT offered by Nokia team)

The next weekend my ex-flatmate in Krakow and his girlfriend will visit me in Asturias, so I am also thinking on what we will do, where we will go and how I can satisfy their expectations in the best way ever!

And after the reading of "Revolución Linkedin" by Juanma Roca, I am inside that world 100%, getting more and more excited, increasing the number of contacts and growing as a (I hope soon) professional. (If you want me as a contact, you have a badget on the right of this post! ;))

So life really goes on, it does not stops, why should we stop then? ;)

Take care guys!

Catching up with Maemo and Android

2010-01-24T15:47:00.001-08:00

The weekend that just passed by right now was starred by Android, Maemo and Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2.

I've been reading about how to implement applications in Android, the schema that they follow and I set up the Eclipse J2EE and the Android SDK and plugins for Eclipse.
Developer day will come to Madrid on February 13. I've applied but no answer was given still...
Hope they let me go and learn from them!

Yesterday night, a GORGEOUS 47-inches HDMI PS3 experience with COD MW2 occupied my night from 23:00 till approximately 3:30. A friend and me were completely absorted by this game, which, as it is nothing that we do in our common daily life, astonished us...

And today Maemo SDK was installed again in my Macbook, of course under VM. Since I had to install the OS again I did not install the SDK again...

On February 2 I'll attend a meeting in Madrid organised by Forum Nokia, and I'll try to force myself to arrive there with more doubts and thinkings about the Qt development...

Sincerely, I am focused on finishing my thesis, hoping to have it written next week and with a good rythm of work, but I should not skip and forget these probably sources of job in the future. I like doing it, so let's give it more than a chance!

Cheers and take the Monday easy!

Fer

Trying MaStory

2010-01-14T04:14:00.001-08:00

Here I'm trying MaStory for N900.
Great application developed by Daniel Martin Yerga.
Here you can see him and his app:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgxT-vMcDag

Congrats Daniel!

Asturias, España y el futuro de los jóvenes...

2009-11-29T04:22:00.001-08:00

Como muchos de vosotros sabéis, España no está pasando por el mejor momento de su historia. Ello implica que nosotros, los jóvenes que estamos intentando buscar nuestro sitio en el mundo laboral y forjar los pilares de nuestras nuevas vidas, nos veamos entre la espada y la pared.

No hay muchas oportunidades y nos vemos obligados a emigrar.

Sí, a emigrar, como en tiempos de guerra, como en tiempos de hambre, como en tiempos de epidemias, pero al contrario:

No hay guerra, ni hambre, ni epidemias. Pero, lo que es peor, es que no hay muchos apoyos, ni iniciativas, ni se apuesta por nosotros.

¿Por qué tenemos que resignarnos a trabajar en algo que no es lo nuestro cuando hay tannnnto trabajo que hacer?

¿Por qué no se mira para esta juventud con talento que tenemos en Asturias?

(La Universidad parece envidiable... Campus de excel encia para la Universidad de Oviedo)

¿Por qué en otros países se valora lo que hacemos y en nuestra propia casa no?

¿Por qué siendo asturiano tengo dificultades para volver a mi propia casa, teniendo que gastar bastantes horas en buscar un vuelo que me convenga? (Si es que existen.)

Apóya la iniciativa:

Ryanair en Asturias en facebook,

Vuelos Lowcost en Asturias blog.

¿Por qué tenemos que resignarnos a trabajar para otros países mientras vemos que el nuestro se hunde...?

Estoy algo cansado de leer, escuchar noticias que obvian que mi futuro próximo está lejos de mi tierra.

No se invierte en I+D+I (España es el 1% de la inversióna nivel europeo), no se invierte en el futuro de los jóvenes y todo el mundo mira para si mismo (Las empresas no mirar para el futuro de nadie, pero sí por el futuro de sus arcas).

Incluso la UE empieza a qujarse de nuestras habilidades administrativas, diciendo que somos lastres dentro de la UE...

España el nuevo enfermo de Europa en elmundo.es

Spain: the new sick man of Europe by economist.com

No me extraña, la verdad...

No me gusta hablar de cosas pasadas y me gusta siempre mirar para adelante. Pero quiero mencionar la catástrofe que el "ladrillo" creó en España.

¿No hemos aprendido que debemos invertir a largo plazo? ¿No vemos que estamos jugando con el futuro de un país y de sus ciudadanos? ¿Por qué no se hace el esfuerzo de invertir en futuro a largo plazo y solo miramos para el futuro más próximo? ¿Qué nos pasa a los Españoles? ¿Es el estar aislados con respecto a otros países lo que no nos permite avanzar?

Espero que esta reflexión de pie a pensar a muchos otros jóvenes en mi situación, a "decision-makers" influyentes en la situación, a padres, a profesores, a toda la sociedad asturiana y española, para que se den cuenta de que los jóvenes somos el futuro del país, que sin jóvenes no hay futuro, y que a este paso vamos a ser gobernados por terceros que harán con nosotros lo que les parezca conveniente...

Se debe actuar cuanto antes...

Por la presente también me gustaría dar las gracias a la juventud activa en Asturias, los cuales creen en que un día Asturias dará las oportunidades a los talentos que tenemos y podremos decir más que nunca lo orgullosos que estamos de ser asturianos.

Por mencionar algunos ejemplos:

www.aegeeoviedo.org

www.youropia.jimdo.com

Los cuales han sido muy influyentes en mi actual manera de pensar y de actuar.

Quiero aclarar, que este post no es una crítica política ni mucho menos, gobernar no es cosa fácil ni para unos ni para otros. Este es un post para concienciar a la población, para hacer saber de que el camino en el que estamos nos va a marginar aún más y nos va a causar más problemas.

Por lo menos, párense 5 minutos y piensen en ello, serán solo 5 minutos menos pensando en como engordar los bolsillos o en donde comer tapas mientras se ve el Barça-Madrid.

Saludos a todos mis lectores, allá donde estéis.

¡Puxa Asturies!

P.S. Enhorabuena al gran trabajo del Sporting. Os merecéis el puesto en el que estáis.

¡Seguid así!

CV online

2009-11-27T07:58:00.000-08:00

I found a webpage to create a resumé online...

It is called emurse.com

I liked it and I created my personal one...

Here you are:

Fernando Martín's curriculum vitae

Go ahead and create yours!!

Filharmonia w Krakowie

2009-11-25T06:15:00.000-08:00

Yesterday was a busy day for me.

It does not mean that I was rushing all the time, but I was going from one place to another linking every activity.

During the morning, cleaning the bathroom and the kitchen was the main "lovely" activity. Since I spent half of the weekend travelling and the other half almost death resting, I had to clean during week days...

There is one thing certain. The s**t does not forgive anyone, and goes all around until the most unimaginable places ever... I think I met some specks of dust who were created in 1895...

After this great entertainment and with the cleaning products' smell still in my hands, I put myself towards the University where my professor gave me a great piece of work for stepping forward in my thesis. Today I was analyzing it and I think it will be working as soon as possible.

Small bite and I continued in the University, prepa

ring a motivation letter for a job in Nokia.

I have to use a proper language, of course in English, not my mother tongue, so some times I need help from the net, from people who are helping me with the content and way of expressing myself (thank you Emanuele) and the help of my last English language teacher in Spain, who is British and always willing to help with her Proficie

ncy way of correcting every kind of written paragraph.

It seems like I have many of the requirements of the position, but I know it is not going to be easy to get the position. Anyway, nobody says that life is easy... :)

I'll keep this blog upload with further news about it...

After struggling with English written language, I rem

embered that I was invited to a concert in Filharmonia (Koncert symfoniczny). Aga, my always energetic and motivated flat mate, told us all to go because her cousin was playing contrabass and she would like to see us all in there.

The concert was at 19:00, so at 18:00 I was already going home to get ready and meet Bartek and Szymczak for getting ready and leave towards the concert.

I was told to dress smart, so the only choice I had was to wear a suit (the one I tailor-made in Bangkok), cause I still did not wash the clothes from

Copenhagen trip... (I know, I know, it is hightime. I promiss it is going to be the next thing after finishing this post.)

Bartek also decided to wear his suit, and he exposed: "I don't like you being the only one wearing suit...". Actually, he likes wearing suit even more than me... hehe.

Well, the point of the post: The concert in Filharmonia.

Here you can see the pieces:

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)

Le tombeau de Couperlin

1. Prélude

2. Fornala

3. Menuet

4. Rigaudon

Jacques Ibert (1890-1962)

Koncert fletowy

1. Allegretto

2. Andante

3. Finale -Alegro scherzando

***

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)

Il suita z baletu Dafnis i Chloe

1. Lever du jour

2. Pantomima

3. Danse générale

My impression is that they have made a great job coordinating such a big choir and the orchesta. Last pieces were the most energetic and there was not really time to think in different things since my body hair was bristled the most of the time...

The second best thing that I want to stress is the guy in the flute.

As some of you know I play flutes from time to time while being in Spain, but of course not with such a knowledge and good and smooth techniques he had.

The flute lovers should have been there with me and see him playing... It was marvelous...

The director was also very impressive gaining the respect of the audience as well as a many times repeated warm applause.

And last but not least, I want to mention Jakub Str

ycharz, the first contrabass and our flat mate's cousin, who created a big expectation among us... Well done mate!

More concretely the "starrings" were:

Wiesław Suruło --- Flute

Lidia Matynia --- Choir master

Sławek Adam Wróblewski --- Director

Chór i Orkiestra Symfoniczna

Akademii Muzycznej w Krakowie

And here a small picture of the concert in the middle of a bit applause.

(Taken with my N900 :))

Nice time in Filharmonia, with nice people during a nice day.

Nokia Qt Training Copenhagen day 1

2009-11-19T08:32:00.001-08:00

Lots of information and a very good speed on the speeches and demonstrations.

I felt sometimes like in the University in the first years. Writing and trying to catch as much as possible of what is on the screen, and also what it is going out of their mouths...

My Qt background from the thesis helped me a lot in not to get lost in the first 2 hours and it helped me to get all the concepts showed there.

Even if my environment was giving some problems, I could understand the way of doing things.

Valuable knowledge in how to create apps for the N900.

The great moment came, the N900 was delivered to us only after signing a paper saying that you are using it with academic and research purposes...

That easy! :)

Now I'm in Thorbjorn house with my new N900 about to set up some libraries inside and get it ready for tomorrow's session. When I guess the most interesting part of the training will take part.

Afterwards I'll have a meeting with Jonas, a Danish guy whom I met in Pamplona last summer during San Fermines. I really need to disconnect a bit after the long "inputs" day.

Maemo developer day

2009-11-19T08:19:00.000-08:00

As I commented in my first post before the Maemo Developer day, it was a "marketing" day.

Many features of the new Maemo 5 Operating System were told, as well as Ovi store services and ways to publish your applications.

As I mentioned before, I was sitting in the same table with Peter, and Timmo (Forum Nokia Worker), having a nice time and chats with them.

The last hours of the training I met an Italian guy, working also for Nokia in Copenhagen. His name is Emanuele and even though he is working already for 2 years in Nokia and he was also studying the previous year, he is originally from Padova.

I have been having some problems with getting ready my environment for the next day, and the trainer, Tino, and some other guys seemed really helpful and willing to help. I was really pleased and I discover that in the software developing world there is not only selfishness and proudness, but also good folks and environment.

The place where we stayed was gorgeous, the food provided amazing, as well as the coffee, cookines, fruits and everything you wanted... Nokia seems to think that new developers are priceless, and they show it to us. We really seem valuable for them.

During the day there were two surprises.

One was a competition online where you can get an N900 for free, and the second one was that in this training we are getting a N900 for free on Thursday. For us to develop and improve the actual "virgin" Maemo 5 based on linux OS for Nokia tablets.

In the end of the day I met the Spanish participants in this event. Ihad a nice chat about the Qt market in Spain and I left after 6pm home, to set up some things for the next day and meeting again the Spanish guys, have a bite and a beer in the centre of Copenhagen.

After that I was not able to go to bed until 1am when finlly my environment was set up correctly and everything was prepared for next day....

Maemo developer day & Qt training

2009-11-17T23:52:00.000-08:00

Waking up at 6:30, preparing an abundant breakfast and getting ready for going to the Maemo developer day, the first day in the programme of the training.

Regarding to the programme sent, I guess today is going to be the most theoretical day. All the inputs of the maemo platform, many different people will be speaking and in the end of the day we'll be able to understand a bit more the maemo, Ovi and Nokia concepts.

My first two partners on the table, a German guy called Peter and a "Nokia" representative called Tommi Kenttämies.

And the first songs I've heard in here are from Eric Clapton and Michael Jackson :)

Let's see how it is going to be. I'll keep you updated as much as I'll have time and strength!

Fer

P.S. Writing from the conference room 10 minutes before the Welcome agenda starts.

Sunny, sportive and inspiring morning in Krakow

2009-11-14T05:16:00.000-08:00

I think that the best part to start from is to explain was I've done this morning...

After having breakfast at 9am and having a nice chat with my flat-mates I tidied up the bedroom, giving some space for breathing inside... :)

I was feeling nice after a good 7h sleeping the last night, and I wanted to make some sport, due to the fact that there was a long time since I did some kind of sportive movement...

At 11:30 I started thinking of going jogging, also regarding to the very sunny and "warm" morning we have here in Krakow today. (13ºC)

So I dressed up and stretching my legs and body, getting ready for the 1h 11 mins of jogging...

The main point of this running, not was the sport itself, but the amount of people I've seen, the good weather and the very nice thoughts that came to my mind.

I was running in Błonia, a very famous green open field in Krakow, where the R.I.P. last Polish Pope used to give the speeches in here, the many times said most cultural city of Poland.

Families, people jogging, biking, skating, little kids learning how to walk, couples kissing, old couples sitting and watching. So different and at the same time with only one thing in common this morning, to enjoy this sunny morning of Saturday.

As you can imagine, days here don't last so much (at 5pm it is already dark...), and during the week people work, study and are mainly busy with their life, having only free time after 5 or 6pm...

Then you can imagine how welcome is a sunny free day in Krakow. Yes, with a big smile and fancying doing things!

Haven't I enjoyed such a morning in this way since several weeks ago. And I assure you that it was one of these moments that are really worth-living.

Have a nice (even better than mine :) ) weekend!

Scatter plots and Start/Stop properties

2009-11-13T04:27:00.000-08:00

As I said yesterday, the next task was to manage to link the buttons with the graphs.

And today, I managed to create a button functionality for starting and stopping the graphs.

I also managed to create the buttons inside the Group boxes on the left side of the UI.

I read how to scatter data, so here you are a screenshot:

Once again, step by step we'll reach the end of our purposes.

I hope in some minutes I'll meet my professor and we'll talk about the signal implementation. If we are able to take all the signal processing methods needed right now, I'll put myself into the implementation this weekend.

If not, maybe I'll do some research about Qt for Maemo this weekend, since on Tuesday I'm flying to Copenhagen to Nokia's 3 day training.

Let's see...

Have a nice weekend!

Finally my graphs how I want! Solution: QDialog

2009-11-12T08:08:00.000-08:00

Here I am again with my lovely thesis...

After some trials with Qt and inheriting Qwt classes to plot good graphs on my user interface,

finally I found out the way to paint graphs and to show some buttons at the same time.

First of all I was creating QMainWindows, setting

my plot (inherited from QwtPlot) as the main widget of the window. But this way did not allow me to plot buttons, ButtonGroups, etc...

Setting the plot as main widget associated the whole graph to the entire window as following:

So, this was really limited for my purposes... :(

I got a bit crazy trying to plot more stuff in this mainwindow, but I (fortunately) gave up quick...

I discovered thanks to "C++ GUI Programming with Qt 4", book by Jasmin Blanchette & Mark Summerfield, that my best option was creating a QDialog and create the user interface window coding my own.

Qt Designer allows you to paint things manually, but I really prefer to set up things from the core of the programme and know exactly what I am doing...

The result of my research in how to create dialogues today is as following:

Obviously, the graphs have nothing to do with what is written, and it is only a random flow of data, but the OFDM methods are not still implemented since they'll be taken from open source projects already working properly.

But I think that my knowledge on how to create the windows is quite enough for plotting what I want.

Next step: Link buttons and actions in the graphs, such stopping, saving the graphs in jpg, change functions plotted, etc...

Step by step and everyday closer...

Thanks for reading!

World Press Photo 2009

2009-11-11T10:59:00.000-08:00

Polish independence day 11th November.

Today in Poland everyone is resting, travelling or having fun with family and friends.

And as a Krakow citizen I did the same.

Morning for ironing and solving some computer problems.

And afternoon for going to World Press Photo in Krakow.

http://www.worldpressphoto.org/

The annual exposition that really impresses me. Last year I was there as well and I have to say that this year the level is awesome as well!

Anthony Suau and his pictures related with the American stock market and the feeling of the economic crisis.

Brenda Ann and her pictures of a 7 children family mother raising them with not so many resources.

Lissette Lemus and her impressive pictures of people killed in "El Salvador" by mafias.

Chen Qinggang and Bo Bor, showing us the recent earthquake disaster in Beichuan city, China, where many people died and many other ones lost their entire property.

Sebastian D'Souza and his collection of pictures of Mumbai (India) railway station's masacre, with 58 people dead.

Olivier Laban Mattei and the consequences of the cyclone in Burma...

Walter Astrada and his portfolio of pictures related to Kenya and the violence nowadays...

Justyna Mielnikiwicz shows her view of the Georgian-Russian conflict of the last year.

Pep Bonet gives to the exposition the main picture (seen on the tickets), with a transexual guy from Honduras, giving the view of how they earn money with prostitution.

Carlos Cazalis analyze the number of homeless people in Sao Paulo, giving an interesting view of where they sleep and take shelter from the rain.

Alexander Taran gives us some images about the 1920's and 1930's Russian style of fight called Sambo, original from USSR but extended worldwide nowadays...

Steve Winter and his snow leopards also are in the exhibition.

And some others are also there with many different kind of pictures.

I really have to say how impressed I am after that exhibition. The pictures are gorgeous in quality, but not only that, also the moments captured and feelings that the camera does not give to us but only the good photographers do, are there.

Some pictures of the exposition:

(Coming soon)

If you have the exposition nearby and you like photography, do not hesitate about going!

It is really worth it!

Greetings!

Zeitgeist: The end of the monetary system?

2009-11-01T15:34:00.000-08:00

A Sunday at home, doing not so much but resting, and enjoying spare time without any worries.

I was told last year about Zeitgeist The movie. And I did not see it until today.

It proposes a new world system based on resources, not on money.

It made me really think about how this world would be with this system, without being worried about earning money, having all the basic needs covered and only worrying about further issues, as research, about the Universe, about things for developing out knowledge and human society.

Why do we put barriers to ourselves?

Why do we stop the development?

Why are we slaves of the work, for earning that thing called money?

Do we really need the money?

Do we really need brands?

Do we really need to have ads in every corner of the world?

Does the society have to be based on the money to continue growing and developing itself?

These among many other ones, are questions to raise now in my mind after watching this documental:

Zeitgeist - The Movie

Zeitgeist - Addendum

They are Spanish versions. But you can find different versions easily.

I have to say that before this I always was thinking that the money is not the solution for our problems. It is a barrier that is stopping us to develop and grow.

After watching this, now I know that many people think in this way, there is a big movement supporting it and I am really glad about reading it on the net, the place where the REAL, and not manipulated by media testimonals, thinkings, and opinions are reflected.

Blogs, portals, social networks, and many other ways to publish contents can really make a change.

Sites of the movement:

http://thezeitgeistmovement.com/

http://movimientozeitgeist.org/ (Spanish site)

Now it is up to us, to all of you, to the ones who are living on this planet. Our planet.

Think about it.

"Aryanization" 1933-1945.

2009-10-31T04:51:00.000-07:00

Yesterday,the Inauguration Museum of History at Oscar Schindler factory in Krakow took place.

There I was, "listening" to more than one hour of speeches and thanks from authorities from Krakow and Leipzig, Germany.

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The speeches were either in German or Polish and of course, translated into Polish/German depending who was giving the speech.

I really did not know which one I preferred, I don't understand 100% of neither Polish nor German. Let's say that sometimes I understood things mixing both, the speech and the translation. But anyway it was really hard for me to get everything, over all, after 1 hour speeches, when my brain started to melt...

Mainly, the speeches were about the history of the cities (Krakow and Leipzig) concerning the "Aryanization" of society from the National-Socialism party during 1933 till 1945. Basically, how the jews were tortured, stolen and killed. For the SS the jews were "Aryanised".

Also the relationships in between the cities were mentioned as well as different compliments and thanks to everyone. (I think I heard Dziękuję and Danke/Vielen dank more than 50 times during 1 hour. So polite are they in Centre-Europe! :) )

Of course, I missed several things, but as i said, I needed 150% of my brain to translate and to decipher everything...

In the exposition could we see several stories about jews from the late 1800's and early 1900's with such a prosperous business, families and reputations in the German society...

How the regimen planned to get their business without losing any cent in the change, having the same reputation but changing completely the place where the profit was ending up...

The 1st of April 1933 Boycott explained as a way of defense against the Jew society...

Art stealing, and many other interesting things to see and think about...

Pretty most of the exposition can be seen in the following pdf (Pictures included!):

http://www.juedischesleipzig.de/arisierung_engl09.pdf

And actually better written than the way could I ever explain it.

Further information, of course, in beloved wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryanization

Polish press articles related to the new:

http://mhk.pl/aktualnosci/wiadomosc/324

http://www.dziennikpolski24.pl/Artykul.100+M5a34f9a223b.0.html

Have a nice weekend.

No luck with external microphone and Mac...

2009-10-27T17:18:00.000-07:00

As I am reading out on the net, the Macbook I own has not a input jack 3.5mm for a external microphone...

It has a LineIn jack, but this one is not sufficiently amplified to get the signal from a microphone powerful enough to be recognised by the OS...

So, no luck with the external micro and JackOSX...

Macbook is sometimes not as nice as we expect...

I'll try it out with the BuiltIn Microphone.

Source: http://www.philmug.ph/forum/archive/index.php/t-14939.html

Setting up JackOSX and the first examples...

2009-10-27T15:37:00.000-07:00

Here I am, configuring a pretty handy application for using the jack ports as input/output of data, for afterwards processing.

Following the instructions of site:

http://dis-dot-dat.net

I am now able to compile and open a basic C example of jack. (metronome)

This will be needed for my thesis for capturing the data from it and transform it into OFDM signal. So my purpose is to take data from the jack port and convert it into OFDM signal to further study.

It did not take so long to set it up, so I guess it will be easy to plug it into the Qt-C++ code.

Note: I had a problem with the files in Sourceforge repository.

They are pretty old (from 2003) and jack_client_new is deprecated. SO I changed it for jack_client_open and I added 2 zeros in the new inputs of the function. It stopped to say that the function is deprecated...

Now I'll keep going a bit more trying to compile different examples to wide a bit my knowledge...

Let's see how and when I end up...