Stand up desk

This is a “do it yourself” implementation of the professional stand up desks. What do you need? just a simple shelf, a table, some screws and four small squads. We have cut with the saw at the high where the elbows have around 90º, so it is as much ergonomic as possible. The table where … Read more

Hadoop components

Hadoop platform is composed by different components and tools. Hadoop HDFS: A distributed file system that partitions large files across multiple machines for high throughput access to data. Hadoop YARN; A framework for job scheduling and cluster resource management. Hadoop map reduce; A programming framework for distributed batch processing of large data sets distributed across … Read more

ILOG Visualization Products

ILOG was founded in 1987 in France, their core business was enterprise software products for supply chain, business rule management, visualization and optimization. Their best in class product was Business Rules Management Systems (BRMS). In 1997 ILOG acquired CPLEX Optimization Inc. In 2007 ILOG’s acquired LogicTools. This enabled ILOG to be the owner of a … Read more

Provide discovery for free

IT consulting companies provide a wide portfolio of solutions where there are basically a discovery phase and an implementation phase. I’m referring to consulting areas, not to products that reproduce reports based on input information. Some companies give it for free. The two main arguments are simple: If you understand in deep the problem your … Read more

Google Merchant Center

Google approach can be seen in so many angles, to me the example of the tactics used on flights booking services is a good example: first absorb the data, second provide it from Google.com removing the need of the third party. Merchant Center follows the same road map. Today, you spend money advertising on ad … Read more

El título de Ingeniero Técnico y el de Grado se situarán en el mismo nivel del Marco Español de Cualificaciones de Enseñanza Superior y del Marco Europeo (EQF), como Ingenieros de referencia a nivel mundial

Esta noticia es muy relevante como ingeniero titulado que soy, El Consejo General de la Ingeniería Técnica Industrial de España (COGITI) se ha mostrado satisfecho con el R.D. 967/2014, en lo que respecta a las correspondencias de nivel, tras varios años de reivindicaciones y numerosas actuaciones realizadas para lograr el reconocimiento de la equivalencia del … Read more

Requirements, the issue

Gather requirements is a science, a process, an art; you require a lot of knowledge to perform it properly. The first thing to do is to analyze the issues that the industry is recognizes and the specific lessons learned from your customer or environment. Things like: “…The Industry average for project Investment in the requirements … Read more

How to buy IP

Monsanto acquired the Climate corporation, this is the way the big corporations are transforming their companies from IT point of view. There’s not IT, there’s IP that is bought, integrated and developed on an E2E point of view (aka agriculture). Bye, bye generalist solutions and generalist providers. I follow Monsanto and DuPont competition on the … Read more

Houston we have a problem in Banana Island

This is the situation, big organization with issues in an office that is located in the other part of the world. The problems started to arise since months but the main office have been ignoring, underestimating, having other priorities… But the big day came, the situation has exploded and have enough visibility to hide it. … Read more