· Design
We need smarter issue trackers
While issue trackers originate as tools to manage projects more effectively, during the last years of work I have been through some situations where their misuse backfired. Tools originally conceived ...
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- · People
Want to get better at your job? Spend time with children
I still remember one of the most interesting questions I have been asked last year when I was interviewing for a Software Engineering position: How would you explain to a 12 years old what an API is? ...
- · Coding
Tip: serve local files over HTTP with one console command
This weekend I was playing with Facebook’s JavaScript SDK and I needed a quick way to serve over HTTP the files I was working on, so that I could access them in a browser window at http://localhost. I...
- · Design
The ultimate impulse purchase
There is one thing that often frustrates me and yet it happens quite often: I am driving and listening to the radio, and at some point they play a song I like. I would love to buy it, but I don’t know...
- · Design
What I love about the Kindle…
…is not the device itself, but it is the whole ecosystem that surrounds it.
- · Web
There is no such thing as Internet Security
During the course of the last months, we have seen frequent news of security breaches, with many websites falling victims of malicious attacks. While this by itself is not a news, the frequency and sc...