This time the main topic was about “Developer Productivity”. It was one of the most funny I have ever attended: a couple of speaker were just “crazy” (but in a good way)! ;) If interested in knowing more, here is a transcript of the event: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dm58hwb_5f93zjrcd.
2.79 miles ~= 4.49 kms Almost to 3 miles. On Monday we will see if I can do that.
Fancy $PS1 setting The code to make the Bash prompt looks like mine is (~/.bashrc): 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 case $TERM in xterm*|rxvt*) TITLEBAR='\[\033]0;\u@\h:\w\007\]' ;; *) TITLEBAR="" ;; esac; PS1="${TITLEBAR}\n\[\033[0;0m\][\033[0;32m\]time: \ \[\033[0m\]\[\033[1;31m\]\t\[\033[0m\]\[\033[0;0m\]]-\ [\[\033[0m\]\[\033[0;32m\]host: \[\033[0m\]\ \[\033[1;31m\]\h\[\033[0m\]\[\033[0;0m\]]-\ [\[\033[0m\]\[\033[0;32m\]user: \[\033[0m\]\[\033[1;31m\]\u\ \[\033[0m\]\[\033[0;0m\]]-[\[\033[0m\]\[\033[0;32m\]bash: \ \[\033[0m\]\[\033[1;31m\]\v\[\033[0;0m\]]\n\ \[\033[0;0m\][\[\033[0;32m\]cwd: \[\033[0m\]\[\033[1;31m\]\w\ \[\033[0m\]\[\033[0;0m\]]# " Thanks to Bash Prompt HOWTO.
Yesterday, waiting for Morfeus (the God, not the Blue-Pill-Red-Pill Freak) to catch me and bring me to sleep. I had this movie in my beloved iPhone, “Lars and the Real Girl”. It’s pure gold. A movie about a guy, Lars (Ryan Gosling), who has a very strange mental disease, that needs a Girlfriend but is unable to catch-and-kiss the classical Next-Door-Girl (Kelli Garner) that loves him… also if she is aware of his sickness. ...
> Title: Bill Gates: the last day at Microsoft. I know that probably this is OLD, but… this is really funny! I have to say that [en:Bill Gates] surprised me for being so ironic about himself, his money and his power! I still don’t like you Bill, but at least you are better than big-fat-idiot-[en:Steve Ballmer].
I was looking for info about [en:MapReduce] and I thought that would have been a good idea to take a look at the Tech Talks published by Google. Here we go. Title: 2007 Seattle Conference on Scalability: MapReduce Used on Large Geographic Data Sets Location: Google Tech Talks June 23, 2007 Speaker: Barry Brumitt, Google Inc. Abstract: MapReduce is a programming model and library designed to simplify distributed processing of huge datasets on large clusters of computers. This is achieved by providing a general mechanism which largely relieves the programmer from having to handle challenging distributed computing problems such as data distribution, process coordination, fault tolerance, and scaling. While working on Google maps, I’ve used MapReduce extensively to process and transform datasets which describe the earth’s geography. In this talk, I’ll introduce MapReduce, demonstrating its broad applicability through example problems ranging from basic data transformation to complex graph processing, all the in the context of geographic data. ...
Innovation is one of the major topics that all the Big companies speaks all the time about: how, what, when… Innovation? When the reality is of a little/medium size company, Innovation is easy: you don’t need to convince, motivate, move people. Teams with “Innovation in mind” just pop out from the ground… and a good manager just need to feed and support them. But when it comes to big companies, with budgets of millions, with Customers that are even bigger… it’s like trying to move an Elephant using one man and a cord. Mission Impossible. But. There are brave companies. Companies that plays the game smart. And those company lead Innovation. Apple? Yes, please! This article is indirectly about Apple: it’s about Pixar. It’s an interview to the Director of a different great movies in Pixar that brought “Innovation where looked impossible”: Phillip Bradley Bird (aka Brad Bird). ...
My iPhone is now more “mine” ;) I’ll proudly show you as soon as we meet. What? Ah, yeah. Thanks to PwnageTool from the GREAT DevTeam! Carry on guys! PS Yes, I’ll use it also with my Wind SIM ;)
> Title: Matrix (11/04/2008) L'appello di Silvio Berlusconi Un mandrillo fino alla fine: lui che la TV italiana l’ha praticamente creata (a modo suo), e’ caduto sullo sgambetto di un suo stipendiato. Che bella figuraccia finale.
I received this letter from Apple this morning: Log in to the iPhone Dev Center and download the third beta version of the iPhone SDK. Make sure to take advantage of all the development resources available to you in the iPhone Dev Center, including updated documentation such as the iPhone OS Programming Guide, a new tutorial for creating iPhone applications using Interface Builder, and the latest release notes. ...