December 2007 Archives
the discussion about the deployment of open source software in large scale enterprise setups and in the governmental environment makes me sick. every time the argument about missing security and not enterprise level software and so on starts i could just laugh about the idiots telling you the stuff. most of them have no clue that the tools they use day to day to deploy are in fact open source.
what do most large scale enterprise setups look like today? java, all over. ok, how do you serve java on an enterprise level? right, with websphere. ever wondered why you can restart an IBM httpd with apachectl restart? ok, discussed that point, which OS do you use? of course something commercial, solaris? cool, they market their OS as open source in the meantime and there are lots of tools in there that are open source already. shell bash? editor vim?
ok, i just want to state once and for all times. all those ones that state that commercial software is more enterprise level than open source: think before you talk and the best would be to just stop brain vomiting your so called expert knowledge and keep your slimy profit greed for you.
the real challenge with open source is the new concepts that base on know how and service and not on stupid reselling of licences.
well, that is cool news. amazon started a limited beta for simpleDB which is a new web service ala S3 that provides a database interface via SOAP/REST. the basis of the database engine is written in erlang. at least it is stated in this blog post. it looks like erlang is more and more in the public and gains more and more user base in the moment.
looking at simpleDB it not only has a nice erlang engine but also an interesting approach to database layout and might be a really nice addition to S3. amazon tries to become an infrastructure provider that offers backends to new business models. the big advantage of using the amazon services it the low cost and the outsourced scaling problem. you pay what you need not what you plan. this looks like a big one for future startups.
after having read several GTD (getting things done) books and articles and kind of tried to follow the hype (unnatural for me) and really wanted to become more organized and all, i fell back to the good old analog way.
there are many tools for GTD and there are even more hacks for making the most out of your day but honestly i just wanted to keep track of the things that go on and try to not forget too many things. in the end i am a programmer and no one man show manager that rushes from meeting to laptop to plain to meeting to taxi ... well, just a programmer, consultant, whatever you want to call it.
my main problem was that i recently had to work on many different client machines as ugly as windows behind corporate firewalls or inside government agencies. internet application was a no go therefor. no unrestricted internet access. installing software was a no go as well, which GTD software runs on mac, bsd, linux and windows? some java thing probably ... well, not the way to go as well.
having read an article about GTD with a moleskine. i love moleskines but they are really expensive down here and in the end the form factor is not optimal for my needs. i came up with this generic ring book, about A5 in size.
the yellow post-it like things are numbered and on the first some pages is an index, describing the numbers in one or two words.
the pages itself have a basic grid with one line on top for a headline indicating the project or idea or main thing the page deals with, and a side bar that is used for sub statements like progress or status of the idea/project. the huge advantage of this very basic KT (keeping track (tm)) is that you can draw any little diagram and describe it just the way you need it, not the way a programmer thought of. i thought of writing something like a basic KT application but in the end i am really happy with this ring book ... no issues with power, no problems with things that do not fit the interface, always on, true WYSIWYG ... oh man tons of buzz words.
since i have this nice little book i happen to forget less and finally found a format that can take all my crazy ideas without having the problem to fiddle them in a predefined interface. lets face it, from time to time we programmer have to admit that the right way to go is the analogue way.
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after having read several GTD (getting things done) books and articles and kind of tried to follow the hype (unnatural for me) and really wanted to become more organized and all, i fell back to the good old analog way.
there are many tools for GTD and there are even more hacks for making the most out of your day but honestly i just wanted to keep track of the things that go on and try to not forget too many things. in the end i am a programmer and no one man show manager that rushes from meeting to laptop to plain to meeting to taxi ... well, just a programmer, consultant, whatever you want to call it.
my main problem was that i recently had to work on many different client machines as ugly as windows behind corporate firewalls or inside government agencies. internet application was a no go therefor. no unrestricted internet access. installing software was a no go as well, which GTD software runs on mac, bsd, linux and windows? some java thing probably ... well, not the way to go as well.
having read an article about GTD with a moleskine. i love moleskines but they are really expensive down here and in the end the form factor is not optimal for my needs. i came up with this generic ring book, about A5 in size.
the yellow post-it like things are numbered and on the first some pages is an index, describing the numbers in one or two words.
the pages itself have a basic grid with one line on top for a headline indicating the project or idea or main thing the page deals with, and a side bar that is used for sub statements like progress or status of the idea/project. the huge advantage of this very basic KT (keeping track (tm)) is that you can draw any little diagram and describe it just the way you need it, not the way a programmer thought of. i thought of writing something like a basic KT application but in the end i am really happy with this ring book ... no issues with power, no problems with things that do not fit the interface, always on, true WYSIWYG ... oh man tons of buzz words.
since i have this nice little book i happen to forget less and finally found a format that can take all my crazy ideas without having the problem to fiddle them in a predefined interface. lets face it, from time to time we programmer have to admit that the right way to go is the analogue way.
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