About
Soy Xavier Castaño García (Xavi). Soy natural de Catoira (Pontevedra, España).
Desarrollé mis estudios en la Universidad de A Coruña en la que obtuve el título de Ingeniero en Informática. Cuando estaba a punto de acabar la carrera, Javier Vázquez me comentó que ciertas personas estaban pensando en montar una empresa y estaban buscando personas interesadas en socios. Aunque era joven, tras varias reuniones en las que nos conocimos, dije que “sí”. Esa empresa se llama Igalia y en los últimos 5 años es prácticamente mi vida.
[English version]
I’m Xavier Castaño García (Xavi). I’m from Catoira (Pontevedra, Spain). I’ve studied five years of “computing science” on “Universidade de A Coruña” (Spain). When I was finishing my degree, Javi Vázquez talked me about several people who was thinking on setting up a new company and they was looking for partners -I was young, I was 23-, but after several meetings in which we met us, i said “yes”.
That company is Igalia, my life since five years ago.
As I said at top, I’m from Catoira. My parents home is near to West Towers (Las Torres de Oeste, you can see the main image from my blog). These towers have a lot of history and if you want to know more about the history of that towes you can go to http://www.vikinga.es
Comments
Comment from rafa ex-cip
Time: 30/10/2007, 12:41 am
wow! tremenda presentación, Xavi! E moi bo o logotipo de Igalia…e pensar que non che gustaban os primeiros modelos…jejej….. ( supoño que a estas alturas xa saberas quen son…ejem…ben, por si acaso, son Rafa, aquel compañeiro teu sufridor no Master de Marketing do CIP, con Rocío, Hipólito, Mr. AVP…Lémbraste agora? seguro que si, jejej)
Pois nada, resulta que o outro dia estaba ordeando os apuntes daquel master e pensei…¿qué sería da empresa de Xabi e as súas dores de cabeza co nome e o logotipo?
E velaí que entro na vosa páxina e …sinceramente, un moi bo logotipo…non sei se inspirado por aquelas clases , pero moi bo dende logo, jeje
Bueno, pois nada, que me alegro moito de que vaian ben as cousas despois de sobrevivir a aquel master de peli de terror…
un saudo,
Rafa
Comment from xcastanho
Time: 1/12/2007, 1:10 am
Ola Rafa, claro que me acordo. Disculpa que non che aceptara o post antes pero é que non me dei conta de que o recibira 
.
Pois o logo é resultado de contactar con un deseñador que traballa para software libre e que nos recomendou a outro deseñador que demostrou ser un gran acerto. Agora estamos moi orgullosos de como quedou a nosa imaxe.
Comment from Saalim Shaikh
Time: 29/12/2008, 9:10 am
Hello Castaño,
My name is Saalim and I work for Packt, a UK based publishing company specializing in focused IT books. You can read more about us at http://www.PacktPub.com
We have recently released a book titled “TYPO3 Extension Development” that is written by TYPO3 core team member, Dmitry Dulepov. This book acts as a guide by walking users through the complete extension development process from planning and generating an extension through development to writing documentation. You can read more about the book here: http://www.packtpub.com/typo3-extension-development/book
I’m contacting you because I’m aware that this topic is one that you have particular interest and knowledge of, and thought that you’d be an excellent reviewer for the book. If you’d be interested in writing a review, I’d be delighted to send you a copy of the book. You can send me your shipping details and I will be happy to send over a copy.
I also have an extracted article from the book that I am willing to give you. If you’d be interested in publishing the articles on your blog, I’d be more than happy to send you the HTML version on your confirmation.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Regards,
Saalim
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