Another vaccine strengthening has been administered to my youngest dog, after that I decided to go to my office and do some work :-P taking advantage of my little trip from my home to Caracas

I have upgraded my pLog installation to the beta release 1.0. I have been separated from the internet world for a few months because I had a lot of work. Now is the time to finally update and finish my work on a Mozilla bug assigned to me: Implement xforms:range element. I hope to finish it in a few days

Today is December 31, 2004, and I am still working, this happens when a customer wants to start to use our application in production (no more test environment) on January 1. I have not noticed that December has passed so fast.

New: I have a new Sony digital camera, a DSC-P41, with this camera I intend to take a lot more photos that with my old Casio QV-700, so if you want you can see scaled versions of them on the albums link. On top of this blog pages will be shown random thumbnails of those photos too.

I passed two new certification tests:

• Application Development with IBM WebSphere Studio, V5.0
• Enterprise Application Development with IBM WebSphere Studio, V5.0

I entered the world of Object-oriented programming with Smalltalk, no C++, no Java. Still it is the programming language that I like the most, even more than Java; please note that I am talking about the language and not about the surrounding environment, like the class libraries or the development tools, they are so different that I will not make justice comparing them.

To see one of the examples of its power read this two articles:

• An Introduction To Smalltalk Via "10000 factorial"
• 10000 factorial

Everything in Smalltalk is an object, big integers, decimal values, fractions, blocks of code, object messages (method calls). If I had the opportunity to teach Object-oriented programming professionally, You must be sure that I would do it using Smalltalk as the course language