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description: Andrés Botero, developer enthusiast, agile practitioner and writer
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          <h2 itemprop="name">Andrés Botero Castro</h2>
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          <p>I’m Andrés, a <time datetime="1985-10-07" itemprop="birthDate">25</time> years old <span itemprop="jobTitle">Web standardista and developer</span>. While born in Valledupar, <span itemprop="nationality">Colombia</span>, I’m now living in <span itemprop="homeLocation">Cota</span>, a nice and quiet town near <span itemprop="workLocation">Bogotá</span>, the capital, as a freelance developer when not studying Systems Engineering at the <a href="http://www.poli.edu.co" itemprop="alumniOf" rel="external">Politécnico Grancolombiano</a>. I wish to be actively engaged in the Free Software community and local Web industry.</p>
          <p>I enjoy friendly email and good conversation over beer (or coffee, if that’s your thing). Feel free to <a href="mailto:hello@andresbotero.co" itemprop="email">shoot me an email</a> if you have something on your mind.</p>
          <h3>Seven things about me...</h3>
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            <li>I’m a freelance Web developer with a passion for nicely crafted code.</li>
            <li>I love Spanish and have a thing for English; I want to hit some Italian.</li>
            <li>I’m a Libra by star sign.</li>
            <li>I try to practice the <abbr title="Getting Things Done">GTD</abbr> methodology.</li>
            <li><q>I don’t design the Websites — I make them work</q>.</li>
            <li>I’m learning the Ruby on Rails framework to develop Web applications.</li>
            <li>I really enjoy traveling; I hope to explore more of the world in the next years.</li>
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          <h3>Stuff I’ve done</h3>
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            <li>Beaten Super Mario Bros 3</li>
            <li>Gotten a Systems Technologist degree</li>
            <li>Watched every episode of X-files</li>
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          <h3>You may have seen me at</h3>
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            <li>Any of the various nerdy meet‐ups (<a href="http://www.bogodev.org" rel="external">BogoDev</a>, <a href="http://www.bogotech.org" rel="external">BogoTech</a>) in Bogotá.</li>
            <li><a href="http://www.campus-party.com.co" rel="external">Campus Party Colombia</a>.</li>
            <li><a href="http://www.inpahu.edu.co" rel="external">Fundación Universitaria INPAHU</a>, where I earned my Systems Technologist degree.</li>
            <li><a href="http://www.poli.edu.co" rel="external">Politécnico Grancolombiano</a>, where I’m working smart to get my Systems Engineering degree.</li>
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        <h2>Colophon</h2>
        <p><b>andresbotero.co</b> serves as a personal platform to write about development, work, studies, and whatever else happens to strike my fancy.</p>
        <h3>Bread</h3>
        <p>On the technical side, what keeps pages and writings working together is <a href="https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll" rel="external">Jekyll</a>, a Ruby‐based static site generator, which makes it as easy as pie to actually write articles in <a href="http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown">Markdown</a>. The entire <a href="https://github.com/anbotero/anbotero.github.com">source for this site sits on GitHub</a>, and is open for inspection. If you find broken links or anything else you believe is a genuine error, please <a href="mailto:error@andresbotero.co">warn me</a> about it.</p>
        <p>Code‐wise, the Website is in valid (<em>as much as it can be</em>), strict, and semantic HTML5, styled with not‐so‐valid CSS3. I’m still thinking on how to insert Microdata given Markdown focus on content, but I’ll get there eventually.</p>
        <p>This site is happily crafted with TextMate in my lovely MacBook.</p>
        <h3>Butter</h3>
        <p>I’m no designer myself, so the only thing I could really try to tackle was <b>simplicity</b>. I had a hard time trying to design something that I liked. I wanted a minimalist but elegant design that emphasized the text and avoided the usual clutter of sidebars and other paraphernalia found on most blogs…</p>
        <p>Okay, that’s what I’d like to hear, but the truth is that I couldn’t get a sidebar working, so I sticked all together and let it flow. I’m also still trying to find a cool cross‐browser font. For some reason, <a href="http://www.google.com/webfonts/family?family=Yanone+Kaffeesatz&amp;subset=latin" rel="external">my current font</a> only displays nicely with <code>-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased</code>, which luckily Google Chrome uses by default. The site works just fine without it, but it certainly loses some appeal.</p>
        <h3>License</h3>
        <p>Unless specified otherwise, all design and content within this site is licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0" rel="license"><abbr title="Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported">CC BY 3.0</abbr></a> license.</p>
        <p>This means that you are free to use my design and content provided you don’t try to pass it off as your own. A simple link back to my site with an attribution would be nice. And if by any miraculous reason you happen to make money with content on this site, it’s mandatory that you <a href="mailto:hello@andresbotero.co">teach me</a> how you did it. I want to make money and be happy too.</p>
        <p>If you happen to use any of my code, <a href="mailto:hello@andresbotero.co">let me know</a>: it’d certainly be nice to catch up.</p>
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