En la UOC el próximo semestre

Después de darle unas cuantas vueltas, me decidí finalmente a matricularme de algunas asignaturas de Enginyeria Tècnica d'Informàtica de Sistemes en la UOC para el semestre de otoño:

• Estructura i tecnologia de computadors.
• Matemàtica discreta.
• Estructura de la informació.

Me volvió a picar el gusanillo y me volví a liar... ;)

Podcast muy interesante

Acabo de escuchar un podcast muy interesante en Podgramando sobre frameworks actuales para JavaScript, tanto de aplicaciones como de TDD, BDD y testing.
Este es el link: Podgramando: Javascript con Guillermo Pascual

PUMPS Summer School 2011

This week I'll attend the PUMPS Summer School.
Most of my coworkers will attend it to, because we'd like to eventually code some critical parts of our PELE++ application using CUDA. I will follow the beginner's track, (PUMPS 2011 program).
Let's see how it goes.

Watched at work: "Design Patterns for Parallel Programming II"

Here you can find the video we've just watched today at work:
MIT Multicore Programming Primer Lesson 7: Design Patterns for Parallel Programming II

Watched at work: "Design Patterns for Parallel programming I", "PatternCraft- Builder pattern" and "Tuned OpenMP to CUDA translation"

Today we watched these two videos at work:

• MIT Multicore Programming Primer Lesson 6: Design Patterns for Parallel programming I
• PatternCraft- Builder pattern

Afterwards we went to this Rudi Eigenmann's conference in the Computer Architecture Department of UPC:

• Tuned OpenMP to CUDA translation

It was recorded on video, so as soon as I find out where it is, I'll post its link here.

Books I read in June

These are the books I read last month:

• A feast for crows, George R. R. Martin
• Object Oriented JavaScript, Stoyan Stefanov

C++ reading club at work

We started a C++ reading club at work several weeks ago.
The chosen book to start was Bruce Eckel's Thinking in C++, Volume One that you can download from here. We read one chapter per week and meet on Fridays after lunch to comment it. So far, we've read the first 5 chapters and we are learning and/or recalling many things.

Videos I watched last week: JavaScript, Refactoring and Inspiring

These are the videos I watched last week:

• Inspiring:
  • Salman Khan: Let's use video to reinvent education

• JavaScript:
  • Classes Are Premature Optimization
  • Crockford on JavaScript -- Chapter 2: And Then There Was JavaScript
  • Using the Mustache Template Library

• Refactoring:
  • Codemanship's Code Smell Of The Week - Long Methods
  • Codemanship's Code Smell Of The Week - Duplicate Code (Part I)
  • Bonus Code Smell Of The Week - Duplication II : Copy & Paste Inheritance
  • Codemanship's Code Smell Of The Week - Message Chains
  • Codemanship's Bonus Code Smell Of The Week - Subtle Message Chains
  • Codemanship's Code Smell Of The Week - Divergent Change
  • Bonus Code Smell Of The Week - Divergent Change (Clean Separation)