As every year, next week TechEd Developers 2008 will take place, for European audiences, at Barcelona's Convention Center. This event is the Microsoft premier technical education conference just for developers. For five days, more than 4,000 of your peers have countless opportunities to explore about the latest cutting-edge technologies from Microsoft related to embedded devices, web 2.0 and upcoming or existing developer tools. I'm sad they moved the conference from Amsterdam to Barcelona like 3 years ago (being a Spaniard I preferred traveling Amsterdam than Barna) but the same learning opportunities are offered.

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The annual conference about Web technologies in Spain is called Fundamentos Web 2008 and this year, as previous ones, is hosted by the W3C at Gijón, a wonderful city in northern Spain. Topics vary from new standards like ARIA, unobtrusive AJAX or the future of Web 2.0 and I'm really excited about key presenters Jesse James Garret and Eric Fain.

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After spending last week at SHiFT'08 Conference in Lisbon I must say that it surprised me a lot being surrounded by such a great amount of people and speakers. I participated in the conference delivering a workshop about DeepZoom during the first day of the conference, the presentation is also uploaded to my Slideshare account and the content used in PhotoSynth was uploaded to my synth account.

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Next week, the Lisbon's International Fair Meeting Centre will host SHiFT'08, an international conference around human factors, interaction design and user experience. This is going to be the second edition of SHiFT, short for Social and Human Ideas For Technology, that, after 230 attendees in 2006, expects to gather around 500 people participating during 3 whole days.

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Yesterday evening I had the chance to attend an interesting event in northern Madrid. It was the presentation of The 4 Hour Work Week book translation into Spanish and author Tim Ferriss was there chatting with attendees. I was invited by the friends at El Canasto, an Spanish blog about personal productivity, to write a Guest Post about the event. It's been an amazing opportunity to reach a new range of people and to meet an incredible person, Tim, focused on living a life.

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It's been some weeks since the last post about starting the summer holidays. I'm finally back in Madrid but no just arriving, I arrived like 2-3 weeks ago and started to create some "legal" personas for my new projects. So let's talk a bit about what's going on and get back into the activity train.

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I've just finished my presentation at CLM.NET User Group and I've uploaded the presentation to SlideShare so all of you can enjoy it. It would also be uploaded to the Presentations section of this web (when I finish it) with the video, audio, slides and demos all together in a pack.

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Next week I'll be speaking at an special event organized by the CLM.NET User Group held in the context of the Quijote Party 2008 in Albacete, Castilla La Mancha.

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Last Saturday, as said before, I took part in Madrid Un-Conference 4.0 and I would love to share with you my presentation a thoughts about the creation of form in software engineering. The main purpose of this micro-speak (but an impressive and huge topic) was to start a conversation about innovation in user interface and the now widespread use of control libraries, control toolboxes and pre-fabricated experiences.

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