If you ever worked in a software house you already faced the question! What would be the best contract model? Is there any contract model that would fit a software development environment? I though that this article from InfoQ had put a nice light on the topic, enjoy the reading: Software Development: How the Traditional … Read More
Working with distributed software is always a pain, the upgrade of the software is always a difficult part doesn’t matter how you look at it: data structure, data, code itself. One of the issues of the software upgrade is that not all “nodes” are available all the time and because of it an upgrade may … Read More
After the NoSQL now it is the time for the NewSQL! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NewSQL Example of one? VoltDB http://voltdb.com/ Enjoy it listening The Final Countdown with Cellos (I recommend to watch the video because the cello players are Head banging in the best metal head banging tradition)
When the day is really full of boring and annoying stuffs I like to watch some nice presentation, something to show me that there is life out there and there the sun shines brighter. Last week I come across a website called TED – Ideas worth spreading, it is a web site with presentations under … Read More
Other day I was downloading a later version of Firefox and I stept in this nice open source project Big Blue Button. It allows the users to do web conference, offering to teachers and students a virtual class room. It has features like uploading a presentation that will be shared by the users, chatting, audio … Read More
Another tool developt to comunicate and map to check the influence of stakeholders in a specific topic. It is always interesting to check what people are using, since the ultimate solution is always the puzzle that we can build based on the tools around us. Net-Map – A Toolkit to Understand and Visualise Stakeholder Influence … Read More
The new era (ok not that new anymore) of multiple processors gave us a lot of power, but this power is only taken if we can construct applications that can split a given work among different jobs, and when the task is split they are not blocking each other. There is a lot of ways … Read More
A while ago I wrote about CSS and Sass (http://onitworld.laerteocj.net/2011/02/adding-some-direction-in-your-css/), which in my point of view is a nice waz to deal with the website CSS. Today I was doing the usual round trip along the site and I found this presentation: CSS3 and Sass by Mark Volkmann, a nice one! Easy end for the … Read More
Kind of busy today, so I will be short in the post. A presentation of dealing with complex systems, how architecture can deal with them. Architecture Without an End State by Michael Nygard. Finishing the post with Run to the Hills, Iron Maiden.
Today I will keep the line of posting presentation, today presentation is about script loader from browsers. This presentation is well suitable for performance dudes looking for a way to improve the performance feeling of the websites. The idea behind the script loader is to, first load the scripts as much in parallel as possible … Read More
Sometime ago I wrote about Search and genetic algorithms, and for my surprise I saw this week an article about evolutionary computation and software engineering: Software Engineering Meets Evolutionary Computation. Nice article, it describes the direction that this area is heading in the software engineering; that a look, maybe that is the area that will … Read More
I could talk a lot about this presentation, but I would really recommend you to see it; there you will find a nice walk through of characteristic and to which direction data and handling of data is going. Enjoy The Evolving Panorama of Data, by Martin Fowler and Rebecca Parsons. After listening the speech, digest … Read More
A nice talk from Attila Szegedi about JVM performance optimization: Everything I Ever Learned about JVM Performance Tuning @twitter. It makes you think that the old days of fighting with the computer unknown are not over (don’t you miss the memory dump to debug your application?). Talking about over, let’s finish the week with Florence … Read More
It is quite a long time since the last time I posted something in the blog. Sorry for that, but the amount of work was not allowing me write nice and well though posts. Well it is not that today I don’t have a ton of things to do, but I got really tired of … Read More
It is quite a long time that I don’t post anything, fault of a lot of work, few climbing weekends and a lot of books. Despite all of that I thing that today deserves a post. My lunch was a little bit from the usual, two days ago a friend of mine sent me a … Read More
It is quite a long time since the last post, a lot of work to do put me away of the blog for a while, but I am back! Those days I read and listened to nice presentations and so on, but one of them really caught my attention: Developers Driven Development. Probably your reaction … Read More
For those that cannot read: The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil.
Here is a nice presentation of how to scale MongoDB, Roger Bodamer talk about how to scale MongoDB. More than MongoDB the presentation shows some ideas for scaling those Documented Oriented Databases. http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Scaling-with-MongoDB Enjoy the weekend.
Once again in the HTML+JS saga. It is so common that we need to solve visual UI issues using a set of CSS, HTML, JS and tricks to make that button looks nice or the XYZ to look like ABC. Those tricks are necessary, but we do have other options: one of those options are … Read More
For those that never heard about this event, here is the official video!
Did you ever tried to do a full JS rendered page? At one point you may end having HTML structures inside of your JS files, and that start is really a pain: tables, lists, images, … believe me that can be a really nightmare. Tempo is a open source project that aims to avoid this … Read More
The Unicode consortium announced last February (17/02/2011) the new version of the unicode specification: Unicode 6.0.
Friday is always a lazy time, so today instead of a boring article I will go for a bunch of links. So if you are bored, your partner (just to be generic) slept in jeans, the weather is creep or your nerd spirit rises deep inside of you, and you need some technical stuff to … Read More
It is a really nice talk at Infoq with Patrick Copeland about Pretotyping and Fostering Innovation. Take a look here. And after that why not to think about it listening some Enya song, like It is in the Rain.
Still in the same line of the last post, an interesting presentation of Ralph Johnson about parallel programming Patterns: “Parallel Programming Patterns: Data Parallelism“. It is not a deep presentation about the topics, but offers a good introduction about the terms of the parallel world paradigm. Today I go with Gary Moore, Over the hills … Read More
If you are interested in digging a little bit more in the Hudson/Kenkins Continious Integration Server you can give a try to this online book. There are much more there than Hudson, so even if you are not dealing directly with a CI server it is an interesting reading. http://www.wakaleo.com/books/continuous-integration-with-hudson-the-book As you are going to … Read More
Hello everyone! As usually happens a new years comes with some few news. Here it was not different. Since the begining the blog was hosted at blogspot, but last year I decided to go for a particular host and domain. So after migrating my other blog I took the time to migrate this too. You … Read More
It is not normal to me to post something in the middle of the day, but this morning I’ve listened so much insanity that I need to write it down. I swear that in the next post I will write something technical, but there is so much crazy people around that I need to let … Read More
I have been outside of this world for 2 months, but now I am back.And reading old news I saw this one: TopLink Makes Transition to Open Source. Yes that is true toplink guys, it is going to a open source project and it is reference for some new technologies.If you are a old toplink … Read More
One of the most difficult part of writing to a blog is to find out what subject to write about.I would like to invite you all to purpose something, ideas are always welcome. Fell free to put “almost” anything on the table.