Ivan Idris's Blog, page 14
March 25, 2013
Electronic Books are Software
Electronic books are not software strictly speaking, but we can certainly treat them like software in many way. The similarities between books and software: Software programs have text. We need to check the quality of software. At certain point we … Continue reading →
March 24, 2013
The History and Future of the Book
I have been reading a lot of articles lately about books, publishing, self-publishing, e-books, the history of the book, the future, bestsellers and so on and so forth. What is a book? A book is a data structure consisting of … Continue reading →
March 23, 2013
Looking for World Class Back End Rock Stars or Ninjas
For the exciting Google Reader Clone project also known as “The Clone project” we are looking for passionate world class back-end developers. The clone project seeks to emulate the famous online RSS reader created by Google. The magic number of … Continue reading →
March 22, 2013
The Big Dongle Gate Aftermath
In the news today: a Google engineer claims that Vietnamese high school children could pass the Google interview easily. Also in the news a scandal caused by jokes about “big dongles” and “forking of repositories”. The unfortunate incident occurred at … Continue reading →
March 21, 2013
Coding From Prison
Prisoners could be the best employees for several reasons, I would imagine. They are constantly monitored by prison guards so you can always know where they are and what they are doing. They also are “free” at night and in … Continue reading →
March 20, 2013
Programming Languages Diversification
What are programming languages? Programming languages are languages created for the purpose of instructing a computer what to do. Computers are not able to think for themselves yet. Until the Singularity happens after which, programming will be no longer needed. … Continue reading →
March 19, 2013
Free Wifi in Amsterdam coming soon
And 36 other Dutch cities I frankly do not care that much about. This story surely must be true, because I read it via an established RSS newspaper feed that I subscribe to on Google Reader. They also have a … Continue reading →
March 18, 2013
The Secret of Saving on Servers
Today I am wearing the hard hat of a Hardware Architect or whatever the correct title is. I should have hired somebody to tell you in a video all kind of facts and figures except what you were originally interested … Continue reading →
March 17, 2013
RSS Reader Acceptance Criteria
As a future Product Owner of a proposed Google Reader clone, I have a list of acceptance criteria, beside the usual such as getting rich quickly, world peace, end of world hunger and disease. I envision two huge Epics, Roadmaps … Continue reading →
March 16, 2013
In RSS Denial
RSS is not dead. That’s what sleazy Viagra salesmen want you to think. They want you in a walled garden bombarded by ads until you rot, so that Google Glass wearing zombies can trip over your corpse. Saying that RSS … Continue reading →
