Programming, agility and motivation
Sh*t Bad Scrum Masters Say from neil schwartz on Vimeo. (via Adam Weisbart) Unfortunately I've lived situations like these...
In the beginning, there was the web and you accessed it though the browser and all was good. Stuff didn’t download until you clicked on something; you expected cookies to be tracking you and you always knew if HTTPS was being used. In general, the casual observer had a pretty good idea of what was going on between the client and the server. Not so in the mobile app world of today. These days, there’s this great big fat abstraction layer on top of everything that keeps you pretty well disconnected from what’s actually...
Ok, now that I have catched your attention, let me explain myself: I have just received a call from a client that wanted to develop an applicacion for iOS and Android, both for smartphones and tablets. My answer has been: developing now for Android tablets is kind of suicidal. Why? Right now the Android SDK is splitted in two versions: Gingerbread (2.3.x) aimed at smartphones, HoneyComb (3.x) aimed at tablets. Google was forced to do this in order to respond to Apple's iPad, so the Android platform wouldn't fall...
Is ‘NewSQL’ the cure? But Stonebraker — an entrepreneur as much as a computer scientist — has an answer for the shortcoming of both “old SQL” and NoSQL. It’s called NewSQL (a term coined by 451 Group analyst Matthew Aslett) or scalable SQL, as I’ve referred to it in the past. Pushed by companies such as Xeround, Clustrix, NimbusDB, GenieDB and Stonebraker’s own VoltDB, NewSQL products maintain ACID properties while eliminating most of the other functions that slow legacy SQL performance. VoltDB, an online-transaction...
via youtube.com I'm done with iOS programming... whatever I do it won't be as wonderful and magic as this.
via vimeo.com In a demanding environment such as the one we are working in we tend to focus on winning: we must achieve our goals, deliver on time, and make money. But what about the pleasure of playing? What about the simple satisfaction of doing our work and doing it well? What about the fun of creating something new, wonderful, suitable? Please, don't forget your inner child. Let's play at work, let's have fun and goals will come.
A software engineer open to any input that helps him to improve the value provided to his customers and the motivation of his coworkers
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