05-June-2006

In the backroom, Jorge Abad presents his web log Ingeniería de Software and a short bio.

I am  Jorge Hernán Abad, a civil engineer. While going about my profession I was always writing programs to simplify my life and the life of my colleagues. I worked for 2 years with geographical information systems. Later, after thinking about what I wanted to do in life I decided to specialize in the development of software. Currently I am studying for a Masters in computing. At the same time I teach pre and post graduate software engineering and work for a company that does systems integration and Business Process Management (BPM). In software engineering I am most interested in process  improvement and software quality. I hope to make a contribution to these fields to help them become more mature. In my blog I write on subjects that I have developed for my classes, things that I have thought about or things that have come up in my experience and to which I have made a contribution. I hope that you will visit my page. Let up support and help each other in Latin America to go forward in this time of knowledge.

The Community
La comunidad: Métricas Web

In the backroom, Juan Leyva presents his web log Métricas Web and a short bio:

I am Juan Leyva and I am a software engineer at the  Universidad Politécnica in Madrid. I am 24 and have been programming seriously since I was 19. At work I have done a bit of everything (sometimes in more than one place at a time); development, system administration, technical support, consultancy... this has helped me to learn something about all the "flavors" of computing and I can effectively address any problem to do with systems and programming, which is what I am currently doing at work. I work with PHP, Java, Pascal-Delphi, Javascript, shell programming and a bit of C and I work on open systems (Linux, Solaris...). Currently I am involved in the Apache Harmony project (especially with my blog and translations of documentation into Spanish, waiting for the time when development may begin). I am also keen to start a project that sounds very attractive to me: a powerful document management system for medium to large companies in J2EE using Spring, FOP, Xalan, Lucene and JasperReports.

Vulnerabilities found in the web site of P.C.Green
Vulnerabilidades en la Web de P.C. Green (Parte V)

 Javier Gutiérrez Chamorro (Guti) in  Bitácora de Guti writes that it has been some months since he last looked at the web site of the company P.C.Green, a company in Barcelona providing computing services to the small consumer. At that time he pointed out a number of web site vulnerabilities, which now seem to have been resolved with a complete re-write of the web site. However after half an hour of trying things out, Guti found a way to display any web page within the P.C.Green site, an example of Phishing.

Summary of the enhancements in .NET v2.0
Resumen de novedades del .Net framework 2.0

 Cesar Tardaguila in  design-nation reports that a series of articles have appeared in DJN Online about the enhancements and new features of the latest version of the .NET framework.

How to motivate programmers?
¿Cómo motivar a los programadores?

Juan Palacio in  Navegapolis writes that instead of asking this question, HR directors should be asking themselves why they have unmotivated programmers. He then goes on to put forward a number of examples and quotations in support of his new question.