sexta-feira, 10 de dezembro de 2010
The Best
O Best tem de longe o melhor serviço de assistência telefónica ao cliente. Simplesmente perfeito.
quinta-feira, 2 de dezembro de 2010
LINQ
Honestly I must admit, LINQ and Subsonic together have improved coding performance on specific tasks by at least 300% with my .NET projects.
segunda-feira, 25 de outubro de 2010
quinta-feira, 23 de setembro de 2010
Make yourself available
Advice #1 for successful top management positions:
Avoid the "always busy" syndrome. Make yourself available. Take time to talk to with people, independently if their positions appear important or not. The content is what matters.
Avoid the "always busy" syndrome. Make yourself available. Take time to talk to with people, independently if their positions appear important or not. The content is what matters.
sexta-feira, 17 de setembro de 2010
Whatever your problem is the next version will fix it
I think this is a very common myth on IT environments. Throughout the years I've found myself involved in situations where there was a situation with a particular product (framework, database, etc.) and after some "investigation" the conclusion is that the problem will be fixed in the next product version.
It's as if all hope is deposited in the next version of a product.
From my experience this is specially true for scalability and performance problems. "This SQL puts a lot of inexplicable I/O on our disks but I read somewhere that the next version will fix it."
Even though product development may put some effort into bug-fixing in between versions, new versions are most commonly used to release new functionality and technological changes.
It's as if all hope is deposited in the next version of a product.
From my experience this is specially true for scalability and performance problems. "This SQL puts a lot of inexplicable I/O on our disks but I read somewhere that the next version will fix it."
Even though product development may put some effort into bug-fixing in between versions, new versions are most commonly used to release new functionality and technological changes.
quarta-feira, 8 de setembro de 2010
Julygustember
Julygustember, a nice vacation related meme I saw in the latest DreamHost newsletter #dreamhost
terça-feira, 31 de agosto de 2010
Diaspora
"The privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all, open source social network." as they say.
My interpretation:
- "The privacy aware": the facebook differentiator
- "Personally controlled": defaults won't do it, we will need to customize everything.
- "do-it-all": a generic, megalomaniac (who knows?) approach
- "distributed social networking": meaning there will be many different diasporas. How will these be updated? How will content between them be linked, if they can be linked at all..
Now on the bright side, I have found some needs Diaspora might suppress. Just today I was thinking how some posts I do on a personal blog and that get publish in my Facebook are just not fit for some work-related audience. Diaspora directs contextual sharing (according to yesterday's blog post) to solve these issues, but obviously it will always require some effort from ourselves while publishing.
As for social wannabes in a work-related stuff context, now, if only Google wasn't cutting on the Wave I'd be happy!
My interpretation:
- "The privacy aware": the facebook differentiator
- "Personally controlled": defaults won't do it, we will need to customize everything.
- "do-it-all": a generic, megalomaniac (who knows?) approach
- "distributed social networking": meaning there will be many different diasporas. How will these be updated? How will content between them be linked, if they can be linked at all..
Now on the bright side, I have found some needs Diaspora might suppress. Just today I was thinking how some posts I do on a personal blog and that get publish in my Facebook are just not fit for some work-related audience. Diaspora directs contextual sharing (according to yesterday's blog post) to solve these issues, but obviously it will always require some effort from ourselves while publishing.
As for social wannabes in a work-related stuff context, now, if only Google wasn't cutting on the Wave I'd be happy!
terça-feira, 11 de maio de 2010
Caught a bad wave and ended up on the sand
Late hours in the office, some work still to be done today and alas:
segunda-feira, 19 de abril de 2010
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