Archive for March, 2010
Extra!, Extra! hoy hablo de Política: “Mariano Rajoy no debería criticar apoyo a Grecia”
Posted by Jorge Alegre in Uncategorized on March 26th, 2010
Hoy estaba viendo la tele. Primero salía ZP hablando de los 2.500 millones de apoyo a Grecia por parte de España. Despues de pensarlo unos segundos, estaba de acuerdo, si es lo que nos toca por poblacion y producción, creo que debemos hacer un esfuerzo para ser solidarios con ellos, porque todos vamos en el mismo vagón.
Así que más que solidaridad es no tirarse piedras a tu propio tejado. En eso que pensaba lo que algunas personas de la calle podrían pensar: ¿Y nos gastamos esa cantidad de pasta con lo mal que esta todo? Pues en mi opinión sería una expresión como dicen en EE.UU uneducated, osea, de personas con respuesta fácil y sin análisis ni inteligencia.
Y entonces viene nuestro maravilloso Rajoy, si, ese gallego que a menudo nos lleva a todos medio locos, porque entre la incapacidad de los de rojo y la falta de liderazgo de los de azúl en España estamos mareados como si estuvieramos dentro de una piñata, de esas que los niños dan con palos. Y eso es lo que nos van a dar si vamos con estos razonamientos, “palos”.
Ademas, si Rajoy hubiera estado en la misma situación hubiera hecho lo mismo o más, por lo que me parece tremendamente hipócrita mantener una posición así. Aunque bueno, en una semana donde este hombre nos dice: “De eso ya opiné ayer” cuando le preguntan sobre las declaraciones de Mariano Oreja sobre las declaraciones de ETA, pues eso, falta de liderazgo. Por cierto, uno de mis informadores de política que escucho con atencion (de esas personas que tienen información extra) hablaba hace unos dias de esto mismo. A él le dije lo mismo que opino ahora, que es precipitado hablar de ETA en esos términos.
Por cierto, acabo de votar en elmundo.es de que estoy de acuerdo con que España preste dinero a Grecia, igual que el 17%, lo cual demuestra que la mayoría no opina lo mismo, quiza por eso Rajoy dice lo que dice, para tener lo que los políticos quieren, votos. Me gustaría que fuese más hombre de estado.
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How To Motivate People In Our Teams
Posted by Jorge Alegre in Startups, Technology on March 14th, 2010
It was nice to watch this video. Daniel is a great communicator and as allways TED content has great quality. This event was at Oxford, would be great to attend to these events life.
Panda CEO some months ago was talking that stock options and so forth creates merchandisers instead of a good team of talented individuals. I had my doubts at that time. Watching the video I agree on Dan terms. While working 100% on my start-up the three motivators mentioned in the video got me moving. These three are:
- Autonomy: Desire to direct our lives.
- Mastery: Desire to get better and better in something that matters.
- Purpose: Participate in something larger than ourselves.
I think these three motivators can work for most people. I think that this will depend from person to person the level of motivation for each point. For overall will work for most people. People that value security and belonging would go with #3, active people will love #1, etc…
Working as consultant in software development for clients I found that people I talked about this they were not that much interested in better salary but rather that their opinion counts, they are listened and influence, etc…which would go to #3 becaouse if you are working on a project and have no level of influence then “you can no purpose”, right? becaouse you are not really participating.
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SimpleSaas Design – Remote Objects & SaaS
Posted by Jorge Alegre in Technology on March 12th, 2010
I started the open source project simple-saas a few days ago, hosted at Google Code. The idea is to help my start-up processing times and provide a multi-language remote processing system with cloud computing in mind.
- Client/server software with JSON serialization with objects support. We use jsonpickle for this under python. Idea of any client communicate with any server. For example, PHP frontend communicating with a Python or Java server calling a service.
- No need to change anything on existing classes.
- Map&Reduce type of processing with less overhead.
- Objects are mapped in mapping servers running database software OctopusDbm with those mapping being in memory and therefore pretty fast. We mapp against application name, which can be any string you choose, defining domains in string, etc…
Last night I was in process of how to map the services and objects, so came up with the following design to connect to a server:
from simplesaas.client import Service myService = Service(sHostName, 'module.package.MyClass') client = myService.getClient(iClientId) print client.Name |
You can add any arguments and keyword arguments to the Service() instantiation and calling of method that the class and method on remote server needs. The module in the server just needs to be in the python path.
and this to connect without having to define a server to connect to:
from simplesaas.cloud import ServiceCloud myService = ServiceCloud('module.package.MyClass', sApp='myDomain:myApplication') client = myService.getClient(iClientId) print client.Name |
sApp is a string that can be anything, so we can define just application name or a combination of domain, application, language, etc…
The mapping server will have:
sApp => sHostName
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Upgrading My Blackberry 8700
Posted by Jorge Alegre in Smartphones on March 10th, 2010

I used the points accumulated into my Vodafone account and got a new Blackberry with 0€, which is nice. I was using a blackberry 8700 for a long time, so will be nice having camera and wifi on it.
I have an iPod Touch which I use a lot, so guess browsing will still use the iPod, but now I will have camera to upload pics to facebook, etc… as well as video. The device is GPRS/EDGE Quad band which is nice for travelling.
Can sync with my Exchange server and have same things on my iPod and Blackberry, email, contacts, etc… while on Wifi. I do not expect to have a BES as I used to have with my blackberry due to cost and I can get along downloading stuff while on Wifi.
A nice thing is to have the newer blackberry OS and play around with blackberry apps. Besides, having keyboard is nice for writing my long notes as I used to do and sync them.
Why don’t get an iPhone?
Well, first is cost, I would go back to a costly solution like I had with the BES. Second, will not move to Movistar no matter what. And thrird, is nice having two devices, one long battery one and the other fun and short battery. Sometimes happens to me that iPod is out of battery, but still my BB still can use it in Metro for example to have maps, play, etc…
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