Apple has published an article about Ruby on Rails in the Developer Connection website!
Monthly Archives: February 2006
Get the facts – I mean, get them
If you enjoy Microsoft PR material, you may find this “Get the facts” page somewhat interesting. For those of us who really deal with MS and Open Source stuff day by day, please just don’t laugh too loud.
My CV says I’m a “.NET blah blah blah”, and I’ve spent most of my professional life using and deploying MS technology. But you know what? I’ve had too many headaches with it. There’s always a gotcha; you cannot rely in their technology to do things more complicated that what the “getting started” demos say at first glance. Their APIs are often not completely implemented, and you cannot modify them if needed. You have to find workarounds to do things that you need, because their support website says that they won’t fix that problem until the next service pack, or worse, until the next version. And so on.
For example, in .NET 2.0 you can serialize DataTable instances into XML natively; nice. You can then use them (even if it’s not the best practice) as the result of a web service call. Cool. But did you know that the WSDL.EXE utility included in .NET 2.0 does not handle DataTable as return type for a web service? This is not documented either (at least I haven’t found it), so that the proxy generated by WSDL.EXE is completely flawed and you don’t know why your application does not work… until you Google on it. And since you cannot change it nor fix it, you are stuck to find another alternative.
They have a great contradiction between their approach to first-time users and hardcore development. There’s a mismatch; it just does not work the way they say it should. Continue reading
Starless, by King Crimson
Sundown dazzling day Gold through my eyes But my eyes turned within Only see Starless and Bible black
Ice blue silver sky Fades into grey To a grey hope that oh years to be Starless and Bible black
Old friend charity Cruel twisted smile And the smile signals emptiness For me Starless and Bible black
escrito en un bar
escrito en un bar, en la esquina de alvarez jonte y avenida san martin, barrio de la paternal, ciudad de buenos aires.
jueves 4 de noviembre del 2004, 1730 horas.
48 horas antes de enchufarme en la matriz de vuelta, un tostado y una pepsi me ayudan a hacer tiempo
veo colectivos, un 24, un 146 diferencial, un 105. un patrullero, camiones pesados, claro, por la avenida san martin transitan camiones de carga. es la “red de transporte pesado” de la capital, que le dicen.
en la mesa de al lado, un hombre de unos 80 años, con un parkinson muy avanzado, lee el diario popular.
afuera esta nublado, frio.
un cliente entra, pide un cortado. el mozo lo saluda, mientras en la barra un flaco lava vasos, los seca, los deja listos para que otros como uno se sienten un rato a pasar el tiempo.
en la esquina de enfrente, la pizzeria “yatasto”, y enfrente de esta, la ferreteria de “julio y dora”, presente en el barrio desde 1950. en la puerta, un señor que debe ser julio, y en las persianas metalicas, publicidades viejas, que me hacen pensar en los lubricantes bardahl, en las pilas varta, en el shampoo valet, en el chocolatin jack.
besos en otra mesa; primavera fresca, lluviosa, pero primavera al fin.
el anciano de la mesa de al lado se levanta dificilmente, le cuesta mucho caminar. me mira con ojos profundos, lejanos, doloridos. desvio mi mirada, tal vez por pudor, dolor, vergüenza.
la pareja de enamorados le pide al mozo una lagrima y tostadas con dulce de leche y manteca; dificil no escucharlo, la flaca tiene una voz aguda y no me cuesta oirla claramente.
suena un telefono. otro 24 se detiene en la esquina, baja una señora con un bebe.
me termino el tostado, y se va haciendo hora de terminar de escribir.
se va haciendo hora de irse, como sucede siempre. para luego volver, como sucede siempre.
Starting a new adventure
So here we go again.
Last week I started my new job, as Software Solutions Consultant for Getronics, in Lonay, near Lausanne (where I live), Switzerland. Yeah, the commune of Lonay has an awful website. Anyway. The good news is Getronics, actually.
My job, as usual, will be one with multiple faces. I will be in charge of technical consulting for the pre-sales and development teams, and also architecture and training. As you can see, nothing to make you feel bored. But in any case, a big improvement over my previous employer, mostly in terms of growing possibilities, infrastructure, diversity of clients, and learning opportunities. Continue reading
Historias Morales, por Armando Mancuso
Con los años uno tiene necesidad de dejar algo trascendente para bien de los que nos sucederán, por ello decidí escribir una fábula que refuerce los principios morales occidentales y orientales.
Historias morales
Esta es una historia didáctica y como en toda historia didáctica se confrontan dos actitudes frente a la vida y se termina con la consecuencia que ello acarrea el ser humano trasmite sus experiencias a las nuevas generaciones en un modo ameno para que las verdades sean entendidas por los menos dotados.
Aquí hablamos de dos señores. Uno que solo quería holgar y vivir sin esforzarse de lo que la naturaleza le brindaba, despreciando riqueza y poder. El otro, ambicioso y trabajador, no escatimaba esfuerzos para sobresalir y dominar al resto.
Vamos a llamarlos José Holgazán y José Trabajador. Continue reading
Open source GPL software… forbidden!
Well, at least that’s what this panel says at the entry of Lausanne’s main train station parking…
As you can see, cars higher than 2 meters, going faster than 10 Km/h, people walking, GPL software and motorbikes are all stictly forbidden.
Now my question is, what does GPL stand for in French? Whatever it is, don’t use it in that parking.
Ridiculous
If you want to have a good laugh, just go and read John Dvorak’s last article on PC Magazine (local copy). Just plain ridiculous.
And I’m not the only one that thinks that:
Trends in Web Application Development – this is happening right now!
This blog entry from Marc Hedlund (O’Reilly) is absolutely brilliant; for all those working in web application development, it clearly shows important trends happening right now in the industry. An absolute read! (local copy)
Pato Preto, por Antônio Carlos Jobim
O pato preto de asa branca Já fez morada no brejão Isso é sinal que a chuva vem Que vai ter safra no sertão
O pato preto é da floresta O paturi é do sertão A minha vida é cardigueira Avoante, arribação
A minha vida é muito triste A te esperar na solidão Ai, se eu soubesse que era assim Eu juro eu não casava não Continue reading
