My first Blog Entry

My first Blog Entry



I was living with this idea in my head for months: release a personal site, a place where I can express my opinions, explain programming related things, or just throw new ideas to join forces with others interested in taking action.  


And, this is my first blog entry!. It is an initial layout for future topics. These are the abstracts of the first entries in each category, they are still in the planning phase, but I will tweet when they are finished.



In “Me, a resume…”, I explain the origin of my interests, the experiences that in some way modeled the criteria I have today, also, I  expose some kind of initiatives for new projects and personal goals.
In “Linux” , I write about how I found Linux in 1994 and got in love with the complete ecosystem, the installation of a Slackware distro and the huge amount of hours I spent reading (well, trying to understand, to be honest) the man pages. I have never thought that Linux could be a driven force in my future decisions.
“Business” blog entry represent conflicting emotions to me, it is the story of many success endeavours and also some not so happy endings, it is not a closed chapter in my life, because I still have new ideas, for instance, how to create a company, but without any managers :-) .


Programming is the center of my activity, I constantly start new kind of tasks, but always return to the basic: write code. In this blog entry, I will explain my personal journey in the programming land and how I still believe that the language you choose for coding really matters! .
Clojure has its own section in this site, because I have a special sweetie for this language, I discovered it after been working  in Java for 10+ years, and I was looking for a more powerful way of programming (less lines, more leverage) while I was coincidentally  reading Hackers and Painters book, so I decided to look for Lisp dialects, then I found the Clojure website, and it was love at first sight.


In Java section I will try to explain the tools I built and used during my previous projects, It has been a long period of time (8+ years) with this language that allow me to say and share many things, maybe some of these tools are still useful today.

The role of Management is a little tricky to me, it is common to conceive  the management as a way to scale up in salary and positions in the companies, but the tradeoffs that this jump demands come with a lot of changes; in my experience what you really need is a type of personality to succeed in this role, sadly, that is the side that I still find slow and hard to change, or maybe unconsciously is something I don’t want to change.
These are my initial topics, it is not a finished list in any way, I will start to expand my ideas in each of these categories and notified them by Twitter, I hope you find useful any part of this blog site, and send me your comments about it.


Bye,
César Castillo
@CsarCastillo19


Location: Lima, Perú

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