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I arrived home and they told me an envelope with my name had arrived. I looked at it and this is what I found:

I live in Colombia, so I was rather skeptic with this card. But now it is a reality. It took barely 3 weeks to arrive, which was much faster than I expected.

Want a card like this?

Sign up to oDesk and start working. Choose Payoneer credit card as your payment method and that’s it.

I earned $42.03 on my first week of work on oDesk (I worked 4.67 hours this week). I’m working on a Ruby on Rails application. oDesk is awesome! Working from home or wherever you are, at the time you want, for as long as you want, and in what you want, well, that’s very enjoyable.

Give it a try.

Today was my last day working at Ceiba Software House. I decided to quit because I want to focus on studying. I feel like I’m wasting too much time on work and not doing the things that I really enjoy. Besides, I got quite bored working with big Java enterprise applications. That’s not enjoyable.

I will continue working part-time on Mentez, a small company that develops applications for social media. It’s very fun to work there and my workmates are awesome. Besides, we’ll code in Ruby!

As I had said, last saturday was the XXIII Colombian Programming Contest. It took place simultaneously in 6 cities of Colombia with a total of 93 competing teams. This competition was the qualification round to participate in this year’s International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC). The Top 40 teams have advanced to the next contest that will take place next October 24th in Bogotá, to compete against Venezuela and Ecuador and decide who will advance to the World Finals in China.

We ended second, solving 4 of the 10 problems. Here’s how it went.

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