Piwigo.org

I have installed Piwigo, Good points: Installation and configuration is extremely easy. Upload templates is easy. Generate content is also very intuitive. Bad points: The time response is not good. The issue is not Piwigo, I would point to the hosting service I have for that, but this is a relevant point for an user … Read more

Eat your own dogfood

I was reading an article about Jeff Bezos and it contained a link to this article from a ex-amazon employee now working for Google. I find it very interesting, starting from the culture differences both companies have, going them through some complexities that SOA represents for the big corporations implementing it, and finally a very … Read more

MBA & Co, expertise on demand

This is the slogan of this company that offers a platform for posting specific projects, profiles and that connects project demand with employ demand for independent consultants. http://www.mbaco.com/ The process to create an account enables you to synchronize the data from Linkedin, the type of offers you receive is so varied and you will receive … Read more

Payment on tablets

Last week I was in NYC, we stopped to take a real coffee in a small coffee store and I see the payment system they have is a tablet with a credit card reader. I took the coffee and asked the waiter about the application they use. It is Revel, from Revel systems. Offline mode, … Read more

Cover the gap of knowledge

You are an IT guy and you are doing an interview to a candidate, s/he is explaining you all the activities that uses to perform, answering the questions you do, etc. Everything is fine, you do not see any issue and the person explains the aspects in a very good manner. Then the HR person … Read more

Cobol

I always was curious about Cobol. I manage one easy application with a good team doing service support for a Cobol batch application, so there is not challenge that I was required to face. But with this new customer I’m working they have a big application with the possibility of implementing projects on it and … Read more

Linkedin, lead builder

If you upgrade your linkedin account to one of the sales subscriptions, you will have access to Lead Builder, that allows you to create and save lists of prospects. So, they are also enabling freelance and individual sales people to use linkedin as a CRM solution. You can define search criteria by role, territory… and … Read more

JS FrameWorks

Angular.js, Knockout.js, Backbone.js… Frameworks are like mushrooms, they grow-up and grow-up in all places without control. In some moments of your life you start a project where you have the capacity to decide some high level technical decisions such, What JS framework is the best one for the project situation we have? And then there … Read more