There has been a lot of talk about the Radiohead In Rainbows CD sale strategy. Some say that they can do it because they have a following, have sold tons of records in the past, and their concerts are well, sold out. Same is said about NIN remix a initiative started by Trent Reznor, and [...]
Category Archives: thoughts
Long day! Been up for 46 hours don’t ask, not pretty, and I’m very pissed off! So what’s all this about, I was writing some code, that was proclaimed finished three weeks ago, to find out that, well, it needs to be ported to a new hardware, and the demo is today (I was told [...]
The Importance of good Code
24-Sep-07I’ve been in shock for a while about how little importance is given in
some fortune (insert number here) companies, to the ability or act of
coding.
Much have been said about how programmers need a quiet, interruption
free environment. Yet we find that in most companies including those that
purport to create software, give very little importance to the [...]
iPhone. The saga.
20-Sep-07By now everybody knows that Steve Jobs is a Stud evil genius.
Apple has reduced the price of their iPhone product. The cries of outrage from the “Early Adopters” were so loud, that Steve thought he had discovered a new level of high definition in his iTouchPod, cause he had never heard that chorus before in [...]
It’s been a while
20-Sep-07It’s been a while since my last post. I’ve been swamped with work. I can’t talk much about it because of well you know contracts and stuff, I’m telecommuting for an IT company in the US, they want me to relocate, I’m not really into relocating, but that’s a long arduous, and boring story.
I have [...]
good programmer, bad programmer.
06-Jul-07A friend of my wife came up to me yesterday, he’s studying to become a Systems Engineer, and he wanted to know: What did I do to become a good programmer?
My answer: Who said I was a good programmer?
To be honest, I’m not sure if I am a good or bad programmer, and I never [...]
Programmer vs. Developer
27-Jun-07For years I have ignored the programmer vs. developer problem. For those of you that don’t know of this problem it’s quite simple: There is a trend in some IT circles to regard programmers as second class citizens, as code cowboys that are trigger happy, and are just good for writing code.
Right now if you [...]
Computing without a mouse
24-Jun-07As most of you know I have been dealing with tendinitis for a couple of months now, I have found a way of positioning my hands on my laptop keyboard that enables me to type without any pain, and so far without making the condition worst. I did not invent it, I found a post [...]
The art of programming
21-Jun-07There has been a lot said about code being art, and there are quite a few different reasons for this, but I won’t go into them here. There is truth, in that code is art, the problem is that in most cases, programmers misunderstand the term art, and believe that art is [...]
Martin Luther King Jr. Day
15-Jan-07Today, were released by Stanford University’s King Paper Project, a collection of writings that documents Rev. King thoughts from 1948 to 1963.
Martin Luther King Jr. was a very important figure for me. At high school I read some of his sermons, and was introduced to a sane, coherent interpretation and implementation of Christian thought and [...]