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I've worked on a few books as a Technical reviewer. I'm quite proficient in CSS frameworks and I was invited to review the work in this book about Zurb's excellent Foundation Framework. I worked in Packt's Learning Zurb Foundation I highly recommend this book if you want to get started in development with this great framework. It really speeds up development and gives you quite a few good ideas. I think of this as a nice achievement since English is not my native language and I did get to work

I try to keep in touch with modern methodologies, trends, practices and the tools they provide you. I enjoy learning and tweaking and upgrading the status quo of several areas of knowledge, both professional and general. It's not a "professional journey" but rather, constant intellectual evolution. And it's not only in Software Engineering/Web development/Project Management (my main professional interest), but rather, I apply them to the way I live my life, think and act. I'm old enough to have seen a few trends emerge in Software Development, become

You might've noticed I don't keep an active social media presence, rather, they're just additional communication channels for very specific purposes. I used to have very active Facebook and Google+ Profiles, but a couple of incidents made me abandon them. While I can't talk about the security concerns, I can comment on the poor user experience I encountered in these services: Facebook's Security Failure An unknown application got permissions on my account and started spamming every single post I had access to. I was not using any app nor I

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