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Serverless, IoT and Conversational Interfaces

Why voice-first design matters and how serverless powers the future of conversational interfaces. From Alexa skills to IoT integration.

Let's Talk About Flutter

Why cross-platform development matters and how Flutter's widget model changed my approach to building mobile apps. From React mindset to Dart magic.

Docker Introductory Workshop

Hands-on Docker at Rocka Labs—from containers and images to Dockerfiles, volumes, networks, and Compose—your practical introduction to Docker.

Introduction to Serverless with Emphasis on IoT

My journey into serverless architectures and why they changed how I think about building IoT applications. From meditation apps to smart light bulbs.

Yo Me Llamo Héctor Lavoe: Building a Personal Website for a Salsa Artist

Website for a Yo Me Llamo contestant as Héctor Lavoe: audio player, gallery, and a jPlayer Safari fix that took an afternoon over three pixels.

Introduction to Webpack

How Webpack transformed front-end development—my talk on entry points, loaders, plugins, and why developer experience beats configuration complexity.

Building Rocka.co: The Story Behind a Tech Venture Builder Website

How we built Rocka.co—from statue metaphors and parallax to a CSS Design Awards Special Kudos—for the incubator where DailyBot was born.

Docker Introduction

What I shared in a talk on Docker and microservice-oriented architectures — containers, microservice characteristics, and practical demos.

BSolutions: Managing Multiple Database Engines with Django and Docker

Advanced Databases class project: Django talking to ten SQL and NoSQL engines via Docker—multi-database ops and microservices architecture in practice.

History, Discussion, and Analysis of the Bitcoin Paper by Satoshi Nakamoto

A deep dive into Satoshi's Bitcoin whitepaper—what makes it revolutionary, the technical ideas that stuck with me, and why it changed finance.

Introduction to APIs with GraphQL

Why GraphQL changed how I build APIs: strong typing, client-driven queries, one endpoint, and an experience that makes REST feel outdated.

Introduction to Vue.js

Why Vue became my favorite framework after years of Angular and React — a deep dive into progressive design, reactivity, and what makes Vue special.

Taming Big Data: An Introduction to Apache Spark

From RDDs to streaming: notebooks, a Docker cluster, and a presentation teaching Apache Spark for my university Big Data final project.

Learning Webpack: The Exercises That Changed How I Build for the Web

Hands-on Webpack 4: loaders, preprocessors, code splitting, DLL optimization, React integration, and backend bundling—how practice demystified the bundler.

Introduction to GoLang

Why Go won me over — my Pereira Tech Talks session on Go's simplicity, built-in concurrency, and how it solves real problems with less ceremony.

What is Blockchain and How Is It Radically Transforming the Economy and Industry?

From Bitcoin's origins to industrial revolution — exploring how blockchain technology is reshaping money, trust, and the future of digital ownership.

Declaring the Solution: Logic and Constraint Programming with Prolog and Mozart

Prolog and Mozart/Oz: logic puzzles, constraint solving, and four-coloring Colombia's map—university projects where you describe solutions, not steps.

Data Structures in Java: From Linked Lists to an Unbeatable Tic-Tac-Toe AI

Data structures in Java: stacks, queues, trees, graphs, Dijkstra, and an unbeatable Tic-Tac-Toe bot with Minimax—my university course end to end.

OOP in Action: Building a Sudoku Solver and Contact Agenda with Java Swing

OOP in Java Swing: Sudoku with the Observer pattern and backtracking, plus a file-backed contact agenda—two university projects where patterns met real code.

From Parentheses to Pointers: Learning C and Imperative Programming at University

Programming 2 brought C, pointers, memory management, and Allegro games—the semester I learned what the computer actually does under the hood.

My First Steps in Programming: DrScheme, Recursion, and a Function Plotter

Learning to code with DrScheme (now DrRacket): prefix notation, recursion, and a function plotter with derivatives in my first university course.

Blockchain: The Industrial Revolution of the Internet

Why blockchain goes beyond cryptocurrency: supply chains, identity, voting, and how decentralized trust reshapes modern digital systems.

WebVR with A-Frame

Building VR experiences with HTML — my talk at Pereira Tech Talks on A-Frame, Mozilla's framework bringing virtual reality to the web with zero configuration.

Deep Learning: From Academia to Practice

What I shared at PyCon Colombia 2018 on how applied mathematics lets us build AI models — linear algebra, neural networks, gradient descent, computer vision.

Comparative Analysis of Sorting Algorithms

An academic experiment comparing sorting algorithms—complexity analysis and real execution times across two server configurations.

How to Submit Google Forms via Postman and Ajax

Connect a static contact form to Google Forms via HTTP POST — no iframe needed. Step-by-step guide with Postman and jQuery Ajax.

Introduction to Blockchain and Ethereum

From Bitcoin's blockchain to Ethereum's smart contracts — demystifying crypto for the Pereira JS community with a live Solidity demo.

Introduction to TensorFlow

My talk at the first Pereira Tech Talks meetup — exploring Google's TensorFlow, machine learning basics, and why AI was about to change everything.

What is Blockchain and How Will It Radically Transform the Economy?

I gave this talk at Universidad de Caldas — tracing blockchain from the history of money to building decentralized apps with JavaScript.