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Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Eeer... what are you doing Paco?
Eeeek!!! These cam-phones manage to take funny shots :-) Paco took me this one, outside the office. Behind me is Diana, and the office building. The spying-gadgets are not more secret devices. It sounds interesting to read in deep the technologies around it... well, it only sounds for me, I have no time right now for it, but they are still curious things for me. ¶ 11:30 PM
Eeeek!!! These cam-phones manage to take funny shots :-) Paco took me this one, outside the office. Behind me is Diana, and the office building. The spying-gadgets are not more secret devices. It sounds interesting to read in deep the technologies around it... well, it only sounds for me, I have no time right now for it, but they are still curious things for me. ¶ 11:30 PM
Thursday, August 18, 2005
Bounties for Free Software developers
Google sponsors the free software. Those interested in some money will have to show their coding skills. I've seen that kind of events before, but this time comes from a company who don't sell or distribute software as its main activity. These kind of incentives mark the start of a new stage in the economics of the IT industry, not just for the free software, and it's good for free software developers, software industry and final users.
Until now, a lot of free software efforts have been sparse, divided because there are a lot of developers that work on small programs that solve their specific needs, or it may be that they are not involved with the technologies that drive the big pieces of software.
I see these initiatives as a positive force that pulls the sparse efforts towards the mass-market technologies, towards the unsolved issues, bugs or new features, that nobody else have picked up. It's a glue that integrates efforts.
Micro-HOWTO-GetInvolvedForSmallCompanies (just an idea):
Start releasing your technologies as free software, and put bounties for those who come with a solution for your developments. That will sane your economy, your software will be widely tested (and fixed), and your user base will grow-up as much as the benefits of your software. Your best clients will be companies with strong economy that require support for your software (manuals, ad-hoc plugins, conectivity to other systems, etc.). In the other hand, the small companies that today are your clients may left you, as long as your software are free, but they will keep being part of your user base, and could help you spread your goods. Start releasing small pieces of software (good enough to attract users), in order to test the response of the community (and clients), later you'll want to release your best code.
Bravo Google! ¶ 11:46 PM
Until now, a lot of free software efforts have been sparse, divided because there are a lot of developers that work on small programs that solve their specific needs, or it may be that they are not involved with the technologies that drive the big pieces of software.
I see these initiatives as a positive force that pulls the sparse efforts towards the mass-market technologies, towards the unsolved issues, bugs or new features, that nobody else have picked up. It's a glue that integrates efforts.
Micro-HOWTO-GetInvolvedForSmallCompanies (just an idea):
Start releasing your technologies as free software, and put bounties for those who come with a solution for your developments. That will sane your economy, your software will be widely tested (and fixed), and your user base will grow-up as much as the benefits of your software. Your best clients will be companies with strong economy that require support for your software (manuals, ad-hoc plugins, conectivity to other systems, etc.). In the other hand, the small companies that today are your clients may left you, as long as your software are free, but they will keep being part of your user base, and could help you spread your goods. Start releasing small pieces of software (good enough to attract users), in order to test the response of the community (and clients), later you'll want to release your best code.
Bravo Google! ¶ 11:46 PM
Saturday, August 06, 2005
Diana gave me flowers. Thank you baby, I love you! Am blogging using a two-way pager and excited because I can share all these moments with you, right from the streets.
¶ 7:25 PM
Friday, August 05, 2005
Cross-Language development on Mono
Lluis done screencasts of the power of mono, showing its power to handle several languages at a time. It also spots some awesome features of the Mono/.NET environment on Linux:
This is an amazing demonstration on how strong is the free software movement, and how far we can get by supporting it. Neither Sun, Microsoft or any other company merchandising their own core technologies would ever do any effort towards such level of integration with the rival's products and technologies. That's good for the final technology consumer, who spend its limited resources and efforts, focusing on their own purposes, not core-technologies integration.
Thank you all Mono involved people, all this is Awesome! ¶ 1:45 AM
- Interoperability across languages
- Inheritance across languages
- Cross debugging
- GTK widget building and interoperation between code components
- Boo in action
- Java working (and inter-operating) inside/with the .NET framework
This is an amazing demonstration on how strong is the free software movement, and how far we can get by supporting it. Neither Sun, Microsoft or any other company merchandising their own core technologies would ever do any effort towards such level of integration with the rival's products and technologies. That's good for the final technology consumer, who spend its limited resources and efforts, focusing on their own purposes, not core-technologies integration.
Thank you all Mono involved people, all this is Awesome! ¶ 1:45 AM
