Posts Categorized: Ramblings

Of “Big Brother” and Technology

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This subject came to my attention recently following a few tweets from Dierk Kรถnig around this — see this tweet for instance. To summarize, there’s an ongoing discussion on social media channels (and not only!) around the fear that technology we (and by “we” I am referring to us, techies) create lands in the lap […]

Just a Thought: Tutorials and Twitter

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This has come to my attention after looking at a few tutorials on various frameworks and technologies over the last 2-3 weeks or so. (As you might have learned, us, developers, look at “stuff” like this on a daily basis — since it’s still us, developers, who keep inventing new such “stuff” ๐Ÿ™‚ ) Anyhoo […]

Implications of Blocking 3rd Party Cookies?

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Now that I wrote the previous post about blocking 3rd party cookies and the (famous) Firefox release which triggered my reaction, I keep thinking about where is the online world going from here. I know a few groups in the industry are working on various approaches but I’m constantly being followed by one idea which […]

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Product Idea: Connect My PES to Twitter

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Little is known perhaps about my relative addiction to Pro Evolution Soccer from Konami on Nintendo Wii. I’ve been a Wii fan since it came out and tried a few soccer games on it but I have to say it was finally PES that got me hooked on it: to all the FIFA fans out […]

Las Vegas, July / 2013

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Of course it had to happen — couldn’t be in USA for that long without a trip to Vegas. I wish I could remember everything I did but I think the pictures probably speak a better story. By the way I really dig the Aria hotel and the Cosmo — Bellagio’s is nice and all […]

“Well Funded, Pre-IPO Startup Seeks Talented Engineer”

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No, I’m not advertising some position in any of the startups I have links or affiliations with, don’t worry, this is not one of “those” posts ๐Ÿ™‚ I’m touching again on the subject of recruiting — and following recent advice, I am not throwing stones at recruiters, just trying to provide some helpful hints, this […]

(Very Very Simple) Bash Script to Delete Old Log Files

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So here’s the deal: you have an application running on a Linux box which generates log files. And these files keep mounting up and grow and grow and grow in both number and size and you have start considering cleaning up old logs which you don’t use anymore. I know about logrotate, it’s an awesome […]