Week 1
Week 1 of 2010 has been particularly eventful. It seems like everybody woke up after the Christmas break and decided to contact me!First of all, I finished readingMetaprogramming Ruby; more than a...
View ArticleNoteworthy links, January 10th 2010
Many interesting news in the first 10 days of the year..The Pleasure Principle: Not All Products Need To Be Painkillers How the usual "solve users pain" does not apply to all interesting businessesIn...
View ArticleInnovation and Large Companies
I had a few conversations lately about the difficulties of producing innovation in large companies (telco operators, in the specific, but that equally applies to many other businesses).That reminded an...
View ArticleWeek 3
Two weeks worth of updates today.Three consulting gigs ongoing: Ruby on Rails work, an architecture/performance review and finally some work on a OSGi SaaS platform. Definitely busy times!I started to...
View ArticleWeek 5
My bi-weekly update... a few interesting things happened.Unexpectedly, I started working on my first iPhone/iPad application. That's something I didn't foresee because my objective-C skills are...
View ArticleTrying node.js
After a few months of Rails development, I start to really enjoy working with dynamic languages. Coming from a Java background, it takes some time to get used to work without a proper IDE with code...
View ArticleHttpCheck in node.js
One of the most useful tools when you develop mobile portals is a simple web page to check the headers your browser is sending to the server. Which User-Agent? Accept-Language? Accept-Encoding?...
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London Population Over The Years
After a few weeks of intense work sharpening my R skills, I figured it was about time to start pushing out some code. One of my favourite blog is the awesome Spatial Analysis, so why not starting with...
View ArticleStrata London Notes
A few useful (mostly for myself) notes after Strata London 2012. As other people there noticed, quite a disappointing conference. Not just for the appalling location (note for organizers: hosting...
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(Review) Code, by Charles Petzold
I don't remember where I got the suggestion to read this book; it must be something related to my quest to find books that talks about the foundations of technology, rather than about the latest and...
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