Top Coder Open 2014 has passed and again has been awesome. The coolest things? Absolutely the developer talks, made by important and influent people from the tech world. The second cool thing is that I had the chance to blog the whole event and also that I got the 3rd place in the Super Awesome […]
Tag: Topcoder
[-1 to #TCO14] – TCO14 for Dummies
6 Days to Top Coder Open and 6 blog post for each day! I’m almost there, I’m writing from Rome airport waiting for the flight that will bring me (in “just” 15 hours) to San Francisco. Move out, the geek army is coming! The following is a blog post I wrote for the Top Code […]
[-2 to #TCO14] – 10 Reasons you should participate to TCO14
6 Days to Top Coder Open and 6 blog post for each day! The following is a blog post I wrote for the Top Code Open 2014 blog. Enjoy! 1) Opportunity to compete live with or to watch competing the best of the best coder in the world Tens of coders wisely selected among the […]
[-3 to #TCO14] – An evening talk with Samatha Ready, salesforce.com Evangelist
6 Days to Top Coder Open and 6 blog post for each day! The following is a blog post I wrote for the Top Code Open 2014 blog. Enjoy! The main reason I started competing in topcoder is because of salesforce.com contests. In 2009, (casually), I became a salesforce.com developer, and from that time, I […]
[-4 to #TCO14] – An evening chat with Gayle Laakmann McDowell
6 Days to Top Coder Open and 6 blog post for each day! The following is a blog post I wrote for the Top Code Open 2014 blog. Enjoy! When I first was invited to TCO13 I was both afraid and excited about competing with worldwide champions. Moreover with such a BIG sponsor like Google […]
[-5 to #TCO14] – TCO14 Rockstars: pt 2
6 Days to Top Coder Open and 6 blog post for each day! The following is a blog post I wrote for the Top Code Open 2014 blog. Enjoy! You know what? You are the guy that almost destroied my TopCoder dreams! Yes that’s true, I’m talking honestly! After the Cloudspokes experience (in which I […]
[-6 to #TCO14] – TCO14 Rockstars: pt 1
6 Days to Top Coder Open and 6 blog post for each day! The following is a blog post I wrote for the Top Code Open 2014 blog. Enjoy! I was a rockstar at Cloudspokes (in the sense that I won almost every challenge I participated in), so it’s been really painful since the Cloudspokes […]
System.debug(‘TCO13’); //The event log
Day 1 – The arrival I arrived in Washington D.C. at 5 p.m., after 10 hours and a half of plane and more than 1 hour on line at the customs: no need to say I was really tired. That’s why the first day in Washington hasn’t been that good or exciting, no meeting with […]