Welcome to my humble blog, a space where I intend to write about things that interest me. I have been a professional software developer for over 20 years now so a lot of what I am going to talk about is going be related to software, computers, programming languages, etc... But I am not that single dimensional and other things also interest me so they will popup from time to time.
As a note, I have been working on my own blogging system for a while now, in an effort to better understand how Markdown works and how it is parsed, you might see the effects as I work on the renderer.
I hope that what I have to tell would entertain you and at the very least mean something to you. If you want to drop me a line you can always do it at ivan at naranjo.dev.
I have some seed content that might interest you, I will be working in new posts over time and building my site as I go.
- Code by any other name, my opinion on low code environments and how they might affect the future of development.
- A brief history of Silverlight, a bit of history of my involvement with the Silverlight project and how we transitioned from being almost like pirates in Microsoft to becoming the API for Windows 8. It was a a very fun time, with very fond memories.
- Who am I you ask?, a bit of my bio to this date. As I look back I have moved around quite a bit in the last 20 years or so. Looking forward to the next 20 years.
- Into the unknown, how I love watching the making off documentaries and learning how big projects are worked on in various industries. I specially enjoyed this documentary because I like Disney and because I can see many parallels between digital animation and the software industry.
- My work on the Windows Calculator for Windows 8, I worked in Microsoft until 2013, the very last thing that I did was work on the Calculator for Windows 8. That was a bitter sweet job, I enjoyed working on it enormously but it was sad to see how unpopular it was in the end. I wrote a small post to describe a bit how it was my experience with working with
C++/CXthe Windows XAML system and all of that.
- Playing with HTTPS in App Engine, I wrote a post about how the HTTP Strict Transfport Security header works to indicate to the browsers that the header should be opened using HTTPS. This post was done within the context of Google App Engine and how you can write your code to ensure that HTTPS is used at all times.