<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br clear="all"></div><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Hello folks,</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"> </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">I'm Arturo Herrero. Last month I left my job in Madrid (Spain) and moved to London long term. People told me that I'm crazy but I want to live abroad and London is an exciting city!</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">I'm a passionate software engineer interested in dynamic programming languages. The last 2 and half years I have worked with Groovy and Grails. Now I want to move to Ruby on Rails. In my opinion, in a programming language it's important the language itself but also the community and the people around the language. And Ruby has an excellent community.</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Groovy/Grails are inspired in Ruby/Rails. Both are dynamic languages, with metaprogramming capabilities, both are an MVC framework with the same patterns and approach. There is an interesting (maybe outdated) presentation of Neal Ford <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/dnosenko/comparing-groovy-andjrubynealford" target="_blank">comparing groovy & jruby</a>. </font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">I think that I have a perfect background to change between these technologies. Also I have done some personal projects with Ruby. These days I'm reading <i>Eloquent Ruby</i> to write Ruby code in a more idiomatic way and <i>Agile Web Development with Rails</i> because I'm creating a web application.</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"> </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">I'm looking for a permanent position as a junior developer but while this comes I can spend one day/week/life working with you at your company, doing pair programming, hacking on personal projects, learning...</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Any </font><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">advice,</span><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> opportunities, information about companies or hate mails for this noise are welcome.</span></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Thank you.</font></div></div><div><a href="http://goog_850365925" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)"></span></a><font style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif" face="verdana, sans-serif"><font color="#666666"><span style></span><br style="color:rgb(153,153,153)">
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