Archive for the 'Work' Category

Camp Adventure

Thursday, January 11th, 2007

So today I’m going to this camp called Campo Aventura until Saturday, the company I work for is organizing an event so that collaborators get to know each other better as we are always working apart. It sounds like a good idea, I just hope the outdoor activities are not hardcore… it will be a [...]

This Is What Happens When You Let Developers Create UI

Thursday, November 30th, 2006

“I’m going to make a screen that has everything I need”. I’ve seen this happen over and over :).
(via Coding Horror)

Evil Light From Above

Tuesday, November 21st, 2006

Now I know why I frequently have a migrain by the end of the afternoon:
Head Pain at Work? Check the Lighting:
[...]Unfortunately, the problem with fluorescent lighting is different and more difficult to address. Although generally imperceptible to the human eye, fluorescent lighting has a flicker. It’s the flicker itself that’s actually a Migraine trigger. Thus, [...]

Biz-buzzwords are annoying

Thursday, May 25th, 2006

Geeks hate management-speak and see it as superficial and dishonest. Managers shouldn’t learn to speak tech, but they should drop the biz-buzzwords. A manager can say “We need to proactively impact our time-to-market” or simply use english and stick to “We gotta be on time with this project”.
Not only geeks, normal people too, there’s nothing [...]