Yearly Archives: 2009
How to build a product
Developers, product management, and customers brainstorm ideas. What problem are we trying to solve? What market opportunity are we trying to meet? Developers & product management write the core user stories. Developers build an end-to-end web site skeleton with mocks … Continue reading
Meetings
It seems that in all my years of software development every company I work at seems to feel the need to pull people off of real work to have a meeting. Where they want to discuss some useless topic that … Continue reading
Erlang
I added another articles section for my other love language Erlang. The first article is just a quick intro into this cool and powerful language, I will be sharing more soon.. http://carlosgabaldon.com/erlang/hello-erlang/
Why working in a large org sucks
Great quote by Paul Graham which explains why working in a large software development organization sucks. ..we can get a portrait of the “normal” world. It’s populated by people who talk a lot with one another as they work slowly … Continue reading
My interview by Dmitry Belitsky
I recently did another interview by Dmitry Belitsky on “How to become successful rubyist”. Dmitry is an up an coming web developer who put together a great set of interviews with several top Ruby hackers. http://belitsky.info/freelance/carlos-gabaldon/
My Interview on RubyLearning blog
I recently had the pleasure of being interviewed by Satish Talim for his RubyLearning Blog on his mini series – “How do I learn and master Sinatra?” – by top Rubyists using Sinatra. The interview series provides insight and commentary … Continue reading
Sinatra rake tasks
Since I have been playing around with Sinatra again, I decided that what Sinatra needs is some automation for some of the boring day to day tasks. So I created a GitHub bucket to dump my Rake tasks. I only … Continue reading
More on Sinatra
I wrote another article on the cool Ruby web framework DSL Sinatra. In my last article I wrote about the cool Ruby DSL web framework called Sinatra which is taking the Ruby world by storm. I decided that another “How … Continue reading
Sharpening your tools
I have always felt that every software leader should from time to time get back to the basics and do some deep dives into focused technical tasks. Such as writing automation code for any tedious task that you have one … Continue reading
Burned out
Over the past few months I have been feeling burned out with my career. I feel like I have lost focus on why I got into software in the first place. I am a hacker and a geek who loves … Continue reading