Lots of news!

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

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

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...

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 excelencia 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

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

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

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.