Del.icio.us to WordPress

Date Arrow  December 28, 2009

I’ve just uploaded a new project on Github called delicious_wp: it’s a small Ruby script that simply fetches the items stored in del.icio.us the previous week and creates a blog post with them. You can set up a small cron job to execute this script every week, which is what I’ve done for this blog [...]

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Reflexions on the Software Business

Date Arrow  December 15, 2009

There are basically two things you can do to earn a living when you write code:

Consulting
Products

When doing consulting, you write code, and somebody else owns it; you are blamed for its bugs, rarely praised for its benefits, and usually you only sell one copy of your work. When working on products, you write code, and [...]

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Who do you want to work with?

Date Arrow  December 7, 2009

When you are a kid in Argentina, there are invariably three questions that you’ll always get asked whenever you meet a grown up person:

How old are you?
What’s your favorite football team?
What do you want to be when you grow up?

The answer to the first question depends on the moment, of course, and it’s simply a [...]

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