About me
My name is Tiago Espinha, I am 22 years of age, from Portugal and the developer of the application TeddyBearNotes that you will be able to find in this blog. This application is now quite outdated so use it at your own peril, and feel free to contribute code for it.
I am a Bachelor's undergraduate from the School of Technology and Management of Leiria (ESTG Leiria) in the field of Computer Science. My major (known as branch in the Portuguese naming system) is in Information Systems. Since I always like to be the best at what I do, I felt that my education was a little short to have significance in the labor force; with that said, in the academic year of 2009/2010, I will be undertaking a Master's degree at the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom. On top of this main educational path, I also have other certifications such as the Computer Technician degree gotten in High School and the Cisco Certified Network Associate 1 (CCNA1).
At heart I am a programmer and I just like developing in general, be it web applications or regular standalone applications to use on your computer. So far I, TeddyBearNotes is my flagship creation but I have been part of other projects as a developer, like Central-Subtitles or the MMORPG Mafia game, Omerta. More recently I also entirely developed a website for a hairdresser business, of its name Paula Espinha Cabeleireiros.
As side projects I have been participating in some of Google's contests, such as the Google Code Jam or the Google Summer of Code. I was a participant in the 2009 edition of the GSoC and I completed it successfully. It was a wonderful experience which provided me with plenty of knowledge and also quite a few soft-skills.
I keep this blog because I am thoroughly fond of writing, and because secretly I have the fantasy that people will care to read it. Or actually, since I'm being paid to write some of the posts I write (the sponsored ones), you could say that I'm actually a professional writer, but I'll let you be the judge of that!
