Category: English
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Growing a community: some texts
I’m a longer passionate on community-oriented products: I’ve researched on how they work, have led one to their goal and participate in some. It’s not a new story what they are considered a powerful way to build your products (sometimes, a better one than doing in through the market or internally in a firm/closed-group-of-people). Nevertheless, I’m still…
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gvSIG vs QGIS
I’m not such a fan of comparatives to rank things. But I find them useful to know your pros and cons, or at least to know how the surrounding community perceive your product. While having a coffee today I found this article on gis @ stackexchange: QGIS and gvSIG comparison. Made me happy than 2 out…
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Code quality matters
«It may be impossible to despise your client or users and still deliver a quality product.» – Advi Grimm, There is no such a thing as a good field programmer
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Apple’s release early, release often
Real artists ship. – Steve Jobs. Related: how Apple releases its products and why it’s one of its strengths.
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Warren Buffet on taxes
«My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress. It’s time for our government to get serious about shared sacrifice.» – Warren Buffer, NYT 15/08/11 On the differences between the taxes to labor and the taxes to capital in the USA.
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How gvsig manages the snappers
Last week I paired together with Francisco Puga to review the status of opencadtools. As Fran is doing a great work in preparing the integration of opencadtools as default CAD tools in gvSIG, I wanted to know first hand how it was going. iCarto and Cartolab were kind enough to sponsor this pairing session. One of…
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Success and failure of building software
Two stories on developing software applications. In both cases the client is the public administration, but the way every one was managed and build was quite different:
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Who needs an architect?
One of those good old texts to revisit from time to time: Who needs an architect? by Martin Fowler. If you are in the software industry, please, make yourself a tea and get 10 minutes of good reading. Will help you to understand what technical leadership means.
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On the closure of code
Code should grow by addition rather than mutation. – Michael Feathers, Measuring the closure of code. Via: Software volatility.
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On lines of code
If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as “lines produced” but as “lines spent”. – Edger Dijkstra. Quoted on Are all patches create equal? by Jonathan Corbet.
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gvSIG codesprint in A Coruña: a personal summary
As you may know, iCarto and Cartolab have hosted a gvSIG codesprint at the nice city of A Coruña. iCarto was kind enough to support my attendance to the event to work on gvsig, navtable & navtableforms. Find below some comments on my personal experience. Some general impressions on the event It’s great to see…
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TripAdvisor: behind the scenes
«No architects. Engineers works across the entire stack» – TripAdvisor engineering team TripAdvisor is one of the largest travel sites: 40M Visitors/Month, 200M Dynamic Page views/Day, … how do they make this possible? Here the answer. As I’m a culture/development process junkie, I’ve search how they work. Their approach: an extremely agile culture (as they put it:…
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On Social Networks
«Social networks are the modern Romeo and Juliet story. If Romeo is on Facebook and Juliet is on MySpace, there’s no way that they can ever be together» – Evan Prodromou at OSCON 2009
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Software: an utility or a strategic asset?
«One of the most important ways in which these efforts differ is where the risks lie. For utility projects the biggest risk is some kind of catastrophic error – you don’t want the sewage pipe to break, or to miss payroll. So you need enough attention to make sure that doesn’t happen, but other than…
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RMS on leadership
Free software communities have a system much better than elections: you can choose which leader you wish to follow and how much. If you want to be a leader, start leading, and see who wants to help. – Richard Stallman.
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Hi osgeoers!
That’s my first post going to Planet OSGEO. Just want to say hello people! 🙂 Well, as for someone who is new in the community, I think it feels right to introduce myself. My name is Andrés Maneiro and I work as a GIS programmer for iCarto, a firm specialized in GIS based in A…
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The hardest thing
The hardest thing for a programmer is to go to sleep at night when there are so many urgent things needing to be done. – Donald Knuth.