The grails diaries #5: Do you need a software architect?
Feb 20, 2008 Uncategorized
Tweet Previous: Grails, is it really worth it? I think there is a general misunderstanding of what kind of value can give Grails to a development shop. It seems that there are people out there that believe Grails, RoR and other breeds mean the end of Software Architectures in the web layer. The reasoning is: [...]
Tags: agile, architecture, development, grails, rails
Madrid Facebook Developer Garage was pure crap
Feb 19, 2008 Uncategorized
Tweet Yesterday I was in the event organized by Facebook in Madrid, The Madrid Facebook Developer Garage. The event was organized by FON, the Wifi company owned by Martin Varsavsky. I think Mr. Varsavsky is doing a great job trying to give visibility of the European and specially Spanish companies in Silicon Valley. The event [...]
Tags: business, facebook, fon, social networks
Would you fire a developer if he/she does not follow the coding conventions of the team?
Feb 14, 2008 Uncategorized
Tweet There is a very interesting discussion about how good or bad are code reviews in Martín Pérez’s Blog (sorry, in Spanish!). Most of us think that the biggest problem of coding convention is the ego of the developers. But here comes something very difficult to manage, specially when adopting code reviews for the first [...]
Tags: agile, management
The Grails Diaries #4: Grails, is it really worth it?
Feb 6, 2008 Uncategorized
Tweet Previous: How Grails will change my project plan The results I wanted to post my impressions and thoughts about Grails before, but you don’t know how the events in your life can twist your plans: a delay in the delivery of the HTML designer, a flu followed by a nephritic colic, a laptop dying [...]
Again in Germany after six years
Feb 2, 2008 Uncategorized
Tweet This week I have visited the ESOC (The European Space Operations Centre) as part of my new job in The Server Labs. It has been a long time since I was in Germany last time, in the Due Diligence for the acquisition of JobPilot by Adecco (I was staff of Adecco). I think things [...]
