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Dyson prototype

As part of SapientNitro’s pitching activities, I was involved in the development of a mobile prototype for Dyson. It included Javascript animations for each section and displaying zoomed images in an...

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Box2d talks

DemoDownload Powerpoint and codeWhile working at SapientNitro, I presented a couple of talks about the Box2d physics engine. One to my co-workers at Sapient and another one to the Ember.js community in...

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Visagio website

As part of my freelance services, I helped Visagio to develop a new global website to showcase their portfolio, clients and services. We used a Wordpress custom theme based on the Enfold theme and...

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Bikesafe in London

Hey!, amigos moteros, cómo os va la vida? Tenéis algún viaje programado para este verano?Hoy he pasado el día con varios motoristas de la Metropolitan Police de Londres, los cuales organizan unos...

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Vitality prototype

v1v2v3v4v5v6v7v8Itunes reward architectureThe project brief consisted of creating an animated journey for an iTunes contest in the Vitality’s mobile app. The idea was to reveal slowly the price won by...

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Javascript loader with promises

A few days ago, while refactoring this website, I came across an interesting technique to load JS scripts using promises. My objective was to load the home page game scripts only on desktop devices (to...

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Barclays prototype

While working at SapientNitro, I built an iPad prototype for Barclays based on Adobe AIR and compiled as a native iOS app.This quick project included draggable controllers with dynamic data, animated...

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Saga car insurance mobile journey case study

SAGA and SapientNitro worked together in a new mobile journey for SAGA’s car insurance service. As part of the development team, I took responsibility of the front-end, working together with a junior...

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Save the children tech audit

During my assignment to Save the children’s project, I helped the organisation by doing a tech audit of the new website they were building.I covered the following areas:Content optimisation and basic...

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Detecting the client device easily with device.js

Do you find yourself creating “isMobile” variables in Javascript quite often? What about manually adding a “mobile” or “tablet” class to the body or the html tag? If you fall into that group, pay...

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Lloyds Bank microsite

As part of SapientNitro’s pitching activities with Lloyds Bank, I was asked to build a microsite to encapsulate all the information, documents, videos and event logs.From a dev perspective, the project...

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My learnings about Big Data

Hi folks! Yesterday I joined a course in Coursera regarding Big Data. It is taught by the University of San Diego in California. I thought it would be a good idea to write a blog post about my...

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SapientNitro Fireworks installation

Source codeA Kinect driven hand tracking experimentThe aim of this experiment is to showcase the hand tracking capabilities of an Xbox Kinect camera connected to a computer. Using a simple vertical...

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The Internet's own boy: the story of Aaron Swartz

Yesterday I finished watching the FREE movie ”The Internet’s own boy: the story of Aaron Swartz” on Netflix. It was touching. I felt really frustrated and angry to see what the government can do to...

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Travelers website

While working at SapientNitro, I got involved in the Travelers account. I helped with the front-end development of the new responsive insurance quote journey.Due to the nature of the business (it...

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Full Stack developers

Recently, I started to hear some buzz about full stack developers and how it’s no longer believable to call yourself as such. It’s a topic that I am especially interested in, as I have considered...

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Dove website case study

Launch websiteThe new Dove website is part of an ambitious Unilever project led by SapientNitro to change the platform used by many of its brands.This new platform uses a modern tech stack (based on...

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Joan Mira

Archived websiteThis project was the first version of my new personal website. Before it was called gazpachu.com.It was built using GhostJS, a beautiful Node.js and Ember powered blogging platform. I...

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Geek life

Since I was very young, I liked computers and tecky stuff; this hobby started at the age of 7, when I visited my cousins from Barcelona. I was really amazed by the things the Amiga 500 could do and...

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The best codepens of 2015

These are the most hearted Pens of 2015. Quite impressive! http://codepen.io/2015/popular/pens/. If you are a front-end developer, I would recommend you to set some time aside to review all these...

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