Why do tech writers use so much jargon ?
David Pogue wrote that he doesn’t know. Maybe it’s self-aggrandizement or they want to lord their knowledge over everybody else.
Maybe it’s laziness or they can’t be bothered to fish for a plain-English word. Maybe it’s just habit or they spend all day talking shop with other nerds, so they slip into technospeak when they write for larger audiences.
Continue reading Tech Terms to Avoid.
Kleber Rodrigo de Carvalho
The newest version of WebSphere Application Server, version 7.0, is now available.
WAS 7 is certified for Java EE 5, including EJB 3.0 and JAX-WS 2.1, and is built on Java SE V6.
For more information:
Thank you Bobby Woolf
Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder Richard Stallman.
Web-based programs like Google’s Gmail will force people to buy into locked, proprietary systems that will cost more and more over time, according to the free software campaigner.
Kleber Rodrigo de Carvalho
Don’t Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You Article was written 2001, but It’s still up to date.
I disassemble two parts of that article that I’ve thought over:
These are the people I call Architecture Astronauts. It’s very hard to get them to write code or design programs, because they won’t stop thinking about Architecture. They’re astronauts because they are above the oxygen level, I don’t know how they’re breathing. They tend to work for really big companies that can afford to have lots of unproductive people with really advanced degrees that don’t contribute to the bottom line.
Remember that the architecture people are solving problems that they think they can solve, not problems which are useful to solve. Soap + WSDL may be the Hot New Thing, but it doesn’t really let you do anything you couldn’t do before using other technologies — if you had a reason to. All that Distributed Services Nirvana the architecture astronauts are blathering about was promised to us in the past, if we used DCOM, or JavaBeans, or OSF DCE, or CORBA.
Alan Braz wrote in his Sametime message: Stop Talking, Start Doing. I found the ad video that explain the main idea, clicking on “Globalization” video.
In few words, we can brief both the article and the IBM Ad Video: Stop designing useless software architecture, Starting coding useful software.
Are you learning or using new technology because It is a hype or buzzword ?
Or are you learning or using new technology because It contributes to the bottom line ?
Any thoughts ?
Kleber Rodrigo de Carvalho
Launchy is the most efficient way to open files, folders, websites, and programs on your computer. Nobody likes to hunt through the start menu to find an application, just to find that the application is hidden under some obscure folder named after a company you have never heard of! Instead, Launchy is a smart search program which tries to guess which program or file you are looking for and will launch it when you hit the enter key. It is only visible when you hit the alt+space (windows) or control+space (Linux) key combination; otherwise it hides in the background. Once you have used it for a few days, it becomes an indispensable utility for your computer. And it’s free!
I had installed Launchy version 1.03 in my windows xp desktop (a long time ago), but it is an old version. Launchy version 2.1.1 is available to download for Windows and for linux now. That’s great !
I really can not to survive without Launchy any more.
I will post here further about what I’m thinking about Launchy for Linux.
Kleber Rodrigo de Carvalho
I watched a wonderful documentary how IBM becomes leader as outsourcing and service provider to IT companies around the world. The documentary in portuguese Brazil shows the history of IBM Brazil being the first IBM’s main office outside from US. It shows also how IBM Brazil( mainly IBM Hortolandia) is important in service and outsourcing area to IBM worldwide.
Kleber Rodrigo de Carvalho
Vários outros recentes anúncios ilustra a intensidade do movimento de software livre no Brasil.
Continue lendo aqui.
Kleber Rodrigo de Carvalho
A couple of other recent announcements illustrate the strength of the free software movement in Brazil.
Continue reading here
Kleber Rodrigo de Carvalho
Written by a leading developer and maintainer of the Linux kernel, Linux Kernel in a Nutshell is a comprehensive overview of kernel configuration and building, a critical task for Linux users and administrators.
This book is intended to cover everything that is needed to know in order to properly build, customize, and install the Linux kernel. No programming experience is needed to understand and use this book.
The book is available for download in either PDF or DocBook format for the entire book, or by the individual chapter. The entire history of the development of the book (you too can see why the first versions of the book were 1000 pages long) can be downloaded in a git repository.
You can access the web site for the book, Linux Kernel in a Nutshell, by Greg Kroah-Hartman, published by O’Reilly.
Kleber Rodrigo de Carvalho
I really pray for it.
Nowadays I don’t recommend CGI/FastCGI over Microsoft-IIS/6.0.
Why ?
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/146225
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/131976
http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5951
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/131976
http://wordpress.pastebin.ca/893007
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/150484
Kleber Rodrigo de Carvalho