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



Depois de três tentativas de reactivar 1 conta bloqueada no Hotmail, quando já tinhamos conseguido aceder e mudar a password, vai da Microsoft e bloqueia a conta de novo, e desta manda não sei quantas contas mais abaixo para ajudar...

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.

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.

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!

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

A Scum Master's dream

Monday morning and our CI + Regression environment is looking like this :)