Simultaneously

Date Arrow  October 31, 2007

Incredible. I just came accross this blog called “One Month App”. The guys from Clear Function have been working on Pulse, a web-based application, more or less at the same time as I was working on Parking Friend (from the end of September to mid-October)! Their design is nicer than mine, though :)
It [...]

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Rethinking the Corporate World

Date Arrow  October 31, 2007

(Une version française de ce billet est disponible chez Profession Web!)
In Buenos Aires I’ve studied corporate management (I did, shame on me), and as part of that, I had to learn about all the different identified types of organizations: matrix-based, pyramidal, military, organic, etc. Afterwards, books like Peopleware made me rethink these concepts, particularly when [...]

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Paris on Rails!

Date Arrow  October 30, 2007

J’y serai! Je viens d’envoyer ma demande d’inscription. Est-ce que d’autres fanatiques de Ruby on Rails y vont aussi? Si jamais laissez-moi un message en bas!

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User Friendly

Date Arrow  October 30, 2007

Today:

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Riding the Rails Again

Date Arrow  October 18, 2007

It feels soooooo good to :)
Let me introduce you to Parking Friend. This website, which I had the pleasure to design and develop, belongs to some friends of mine, currently starting their own valet parking service in Geneva. Located not far from the airport, Jake, Dieter and their team will take care of [...]

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Aguante el aguante

Date Arrow  October 18, 2007

Como diria Casero: “Que vas a hacer mulita! La vida es asi!”
Un dia te levantas, te lees un par de articulos en el Google Reader y hete aqui que tu nombre aparece en un post o mucho mas recientemente en otro de un amigo de Ginebra.
El articulo al que hace referencia Spindoctor (que en realidad [...]

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akosma

Date Arrow  October 17, 2007

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/socrates/ifstoneinterview.html
Homer calls them akosma. This is the negative of kosmos, whence our words “cosmetics” and “cosmos” derive. The word implies disorder and lack of grace.
I haven’t blogged for a while. I’ll be back soon with great news. Stay tuned!

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Trenes y deporte

Date Arrow  October 7, 2007

Aguante los trenes suizos, carajo:
Al otro día nos espera otra ciudad suiza, Lucerna, y el tren que nos lleva, con vagones de dos pisos, es parte del sistema de transporte del país, STS. La noticia esta mañana es que la partida se demora 5 minutos, que la voz FM se encarga de comunicar. Entre tanta [...]

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A scary read

Date Arrow  October 4, 2007

Bruce Schneier about the storm worm:

Redesigning the Microsoft Windows operating system would work, but that’s ridiculous to even suggest. Creating a counterworm would make a great piece of fiction, but it’s a really bad idea in real life. We simply don’t know how to stop Storm, except to find the people controlling it and arrest [...]

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