Fast or Efficient

These days at work I’ve had a few tasks, all last minute, improving or adding a feature. The system works perfectly, but the end users (secretaries, according to a great professor)… I had to make a change in SQL, change some codes, nothing out of this world. The thing is, I have more work, and this is just for a report. Oh, the fun… I have to update all but the first record, etc....

July 22, 2017 · 1 min · 172 words · Cesar Darinel Ortiz

It's Difficult, Intel 8086

The professor tries to explain how the pins of this beautiful processor work… The hard part is that all you think about is programming it… #neverAssembler

September 25, 2015 · 1 min · 26 words · Cesar Darinel Ortiz

At the End

Today is December 31st, “today could be a great day,” as master Sabina says, but more so because today is the end of a year and it started raining. God gave dreams to Joseph before Joseph, Jacob dreamed. the cupbearer dreamed the baker dreamed Nebuchadnezzar dreamed And the Bible highlights many other dreamers… you might say, “What does that matter to me, César?” Well, the point is, if you don’t dream, nothing will happen....

December 31, 2013 · 1 min · 105 words · Cesar Darinel Ortiz

Variables: what name should I give them?

Variables, for those who don’t understand what I mean, are essential in programming. A variable consists of a space in the storage system (the computer’s main memory) and a symbolic name (an identifier) associated with that space. The easiest example, in my opinion, is to think of it as a drawer. The variable is that drawer where we can store information. My problem, and the problem of many others, is knowing what name to give certain variables....

December 27, 2013 · 2 min · 228 words · Cesar Darinel Ortiz