http://www.hackerdude.com Software Development Blog Wed, 07 May 2008 02:43:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I am now using Twitter again. I am hackerdude, of course. Come join the fun! http://www.hackerdude.com/2008/03/10/twitter/ En Consumer.es, Alexey Pazhitnov (creador de Tetris) dice que El software libre sólo es una rebeldía estéril, y se pone a opinar acerca de capitalismo versus socialismo. Creo que reducir esto a "socialismo/capitalismo" es una reacción que sobresimplifica un asunto que es por naturaleza complejo, tomando prestados temas de política para ... http://www.hackerdude.com/2008/02/22/software-libre-%c2%bfrebeldia-esteril-of-fisica-cuantica/ Here are some thoughts on success by Steve Jobs, prompted by a question asked at the D5 conference where he had a joint interview with Bill Gates. The whole thing is worth watching, or listening to, or reading the transcripts but this is relevant if you work in this business. First, ... http://www.hackerdude.com/2007/12/18/steve-jobs-on-success-from-d5-conference/ I set up instiki locally for my own notes and I needed to get it to start automatically in a proper way. I found an excellent tip on how to create launchd items using the property list editor. Works like a charm. Now I even made a web clipping dashboard widget ... http://www.hackerdude.com/2007/11/28/macgeekery-launchd-items/ I do consulting and sometimes I deal with different clients/projects. This requires a bit of compartmentalized thinking, but I still like to do it fast without having to endlessly tweak my setup. By now I have evolved a way to set up a new customer (when I get a whole ... http://www.hackerdude.com/2007/10/10/how-i-set-up-a-new-customer-on-a-mac-workstation/ I do love my iPhone. But.. I'm writing this while commuting on an underground train, of course without a connection. And of course there's Airplane mode. Being out of the country. There's a million reasons to need to use the iPhone disconnected. You just can't tell me that, since the programming ... http://www.hackerdude.com/2007/09/27/iphone-no-we-do-need-a-real-programming-model/ Interviewing is difficult. Technical vetting is even more difficult. You only have an hour to determine if the person knows his/her salt. I've been doing a lot of these lately, and I seem to be getting slightly better at them. In my worry to make sure we don't hire the wrong ... http://www.hackerdude.com/2007/08/10/the-mind-map-approach-to-interviewing/ After my nightmare with Quicken I decided to try many different financial packages. I ended up deciding on iBank 2.3.2. I have been using it for a little while now and here are my impressions. technorati tags: finances osx mac Migrating from Quicken I tried migrating from Quicken (2007 for Mac) 3 times, but it was ... http://www.hackerdude.com/2007/07/31/ibank-review/ Caching and concurrency management are tricky. If you have a cache that lives in memory but you have updates to the database that the objects originally came from, how are you going to make sure that the cached objects still reflect the contents of the database? This really depends on what ... http://www.hackerdude.com/2007/07/30/concurrency-strategies-for-hibernate-caching/ Is it too much to ask for a decent personal finance software package for OS X? I have used Quicken on PCs since 3.0. MS Money is also nice although I never really used it for more than trying it out. I had heard Quicken for Mac was not as far ... http://www.hackerdude.com/2007/07/09/osx-personal-finance-software-alternatives/