Back to blogging

To the couple of misguided souls that used to pay attention to my blog, you may have noticed that after an unfortunate db crash last year (resulting in loosing a couple of really interesting comment threads) I seemed to drop down from the face of the blogosphere and just abandoned completely my blog. Well, what really happened was that the last few months of 2008 and the beginning of 2009, have been pretty hectic in my life, sorta like a rollercoaster of life changes that took me (literally) from one corner of the country to the other.

First, I left a job I had had for a little more than four years to seek fame and fortune elsewhere. Working at Unique Vacations/Sandals Resorts was a very interesting experience; I made great friendships, learned from a master developer, and tried my hand at building/improving pretty interesting and high profile applications. But in the end I felt it was time for a change and that I had to move on. So I left Miami and headed north to Tampa.

In Tampa something extraordinary happened: our first child, Diego, was born. The experience of being a father for the first time is pretty unbelievable and way too much to put in words. We stayed in Tampa for a couple of months, while I worked for a little bit at a consulting/software company there. Then, with the turn of the new year, I was presented with an extraordinary opportunity to work together with some very smart people on a beautiful place called Oregon. So yep, at the beginning of the year, my wife, the baby and I, packed our things and flew cross-country to start a new life on the other corner of the country.

And so, here I am, living south of Portland, Oregon, surrounded by a beautiful scenery, working with a great team on challenging projects and technologies, and blessed with a wonderful baby and wife.

Finally, I already started working again in a couple of personal projects. Over the next few weeks, I'll post about some improvements for the next versions of HomePortals and ColdBricks to give an idea of where they stand, and hopefully get some feedback about them too.

Until then, have fun and code a lot.