"Reflections from a Chromatic Impulse"

Atlassian Confluence WYSIWYG my ass!

2011-12-08T13:33:00.000-08:00

uma semana depois de andar às cabeçadas com o Atlassian Confluence para me por new lines e tabs onde as tinha deixado fiquei espantado de ver isto:

Definitivamente:

Quando é q as wikis aprendem a ter uma forma de edição sem ter que estar constantemente a passar pelo markup?
Hummm... depois de alguma investigação parece que na versão 4 do Confluence... Must try this at work!!

G+

2011-07-17T14:05:00.001-07:00

I'm sorry, but I have to say Google Plus looks like a big deception. Nevertheless Facebook looked much worse when I first saw it...

Kaspersky

2011-06-06T03:09:00.000-07:00

Alguém conhece um serviço kavfswp.exe que consome 50%-100% do CPU? Pelo que percebi é um vírus Kaspersky que se auto-instala nos servidores...

http://www.nowjs.com/

2011-05-19T01:16:00.003-07:00

Does this solve client pushing without a hassle?

No other way

2011-04-05T16:05:00.000-07:00

At this point I can't really work without Google Wave! It does everything!

Sou daltónico

2011-01-18T12:20:00.000-08:00

The Best

2010-12-10T06:59:00.001-08:00

O Best tem de longe o melhor serviço de assistência telefónica ao cliente. Simplesmente perfeito.

LINQ

2010-12-02T15:41:00.001-08:00

Honestly I must admit, LINQ and Subsonic together have improved coding performance on specific tasks by at least 300% with my .NET projects.

2010-10-25T14:23:00.000-07:00

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...

Make yourself available

2010-09-23T06:46:00.000-07:00

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.

Whatever your problem is the next version will fix it

2010-09-17T11:15:00.000-07:00

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.

Julygustember

2010-09-08T08:38:00.001-07:00

Julygustember, a nice vacation related meme I saw in the latest DreamHost newsletter #dreamhost

Diaspora

2010-08-31T16:40:00.000-07:00

"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!

Caught a bad wave and ended up on the sand

2010-05-11T12:27:00.000-07:00

Late hours in the office, some work still to be done today and alas:

A Scum Master's dream

2010-04-19T06:16:00.000-07:00

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

Kutuma's Ramblings: When is enough good enough?

2009-10-27T17:07:00.000-07:00

An excellent post on how to determine how far to go when implementing a software feature:

Kutuma's Ramblings: When is enough good enough?

In the case of what I'm implementing today, a weather information system UI for motorways, I ranked lower in points 1 and 3 but high in 2, 4 and 5 so my investment on near excellent should payoff.

Star Wars vs. Star Trek

2009-07-22T05:44:00.000-07:00

An interesting post on the Star Wars vs. Star Trek thread:

2009-05-27T10:11:00.000-07:00

Tech Republic has just published a review of the OutSystems Agile Platform (v4.2) done by Justin James. You can read it here: http://tinyurl.com/oon59f.

2009-05-03T14:59:00.000-07:00

Finalmente um UAU da minha parte para uma feature do Google. Vejam o filtro por cores na pesquisa de imagens.

Bestial!

2009-04-23T07:12:00.001-07:00

Reminder
Changing windows start-up thingie: msconfig

2009-02-19T06:52:00.001-08:00

2008-12-20T07:05:00.000-08:00

I've just got a brand new PS3 and Little Big Planet as sort of a christmas present but I have to admit that even though I turned it on yesterday and spent a few time on it I have given much more attention to another present I bought for someone else, it's much prettier ;)

Straight to the point

2008-12-08T14:42:00.000-08:00

The simplicity of these guys reminds me a lot about what were aiming at in OutSystems:

2008-12-08T12:56:00.000-08:00

What's the difference between a nerd, a geek, and a dork?

Listening to: Nerds by The Dodos

It's really difficult to talk to Sonia

2008-12-02T02:52:00.000-08:00

And this message kept appearing over and over again on MSN sign-out. Guess we'll have to talk latter :p

10 year oldie

2008-09-12T08:36:00.000-07:00

Who would say that in 2008 I'd be installing this museum piece:

Google Docs - 2 out of 5 stars

2008-08-28T13:13:00.000-07:00

My Google Docs experience up to this point has been mostly bad. I give them 2/5 as online apps go.

2008-08-17T11:42:00.000-07:00

Great, what I've always wanted, a huge SP-like character creation studio.