Currently I’m working for a company, at home. It’s a small company: my boss is located in Mexico, I’m (project leader) here in Spain, and there are 3 developers in India. We just use Skype, Google Docs and email, and we have no big problems, just the ones related to the time zones.
“When you work […]

In part 1 I spoke about lines of code and average of lines per day. Two indexes that are quite naive. Let’s see some better metrics, most of them object oriented programming focused.
Third stop: Tests and code coverage
If you have unit tests you can easily control that nothing vital is broken in each contribution. A […]

Managing a software project with various programmers and around 10 contributions per day is a complex thing.
How can we measure the quality of every single contribution?
How can control the work of the programmers?
First stop: Lines of code
The easiest thing to measure in a project is the source lines of code it has. For example, the […]

Which one is better?
a) Use all (or most) of your free days in a row. You totally disconnect from work issues, but when you come back your’ll have a flood in your mail inbox.
b) Use them little by little, so do small breaks during the year. You don’t totally forget about work things, but you […]

How can we induce users to participate more in our website?
For sure a lot of people have this question in their minds. Since the arrival of the Web 2.0 the value of a web is based on its users and the content they create. The more quantity and quality of the user’s created content, the […]

Sometime ago I decided to arrange my free time during the week (mostly evenings) with my hobbies and things to learn. I set each week day with an activity, like Monday for climbing, Tuesday for composing, etc… It doesn’t really work. The problem is that you have to wait a full week to do the […]

In my previous post I criticized Facebook (”Fb”) quite a lot. But at the end it does some good stuff, like the “keep in touch with your people” thing, a decent content aggregator and a way to publish (or share) things like personal mood or thoughts, links, images, etc. But if you distill some of […]

Have you ever feel how fast the time goes by when you do some channel surfing on TV? “I spend 2 hours in front of the TV, changing from one channel to another, and finally I’ve not seen anything at all”. I had this thought of “wasted time” while surfing on Facebook recently.
Fb, the origins
I […]

In my previous work I enjoyed when some coworkers tried “visual things” using a webcamera and a soft to recognize hands, fingers and such. This morning I saw a video with the last research on the field… impressive:

Link to the video
Which technology will win in the input world? Cameras or multi-touch screens?

Here it is a morning conversation with my new Hindi junior coworker. He is in New Delhi, working for us remotely, and I’m teaching him quite a lot of things, and love to discuss about programming problems…
Me - have you read about Composite Pattern?
He - i use to say to my friends that am good […]