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!

Caught a bad wave and ended up on the sand

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

A Scum Master's dream

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

Kutuma's Ramblings: When is enough good enough?

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

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

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.

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

Bestial!