Happy 1st Birthday

Today this blog turns one. One year ago, when it started, I was not sure whether it would have survived more than few months. Conversely, with 68 published posts and more than 10.000 pageviews (many of those in the last month), I'm pretty satisfied.

To these newly arrived visitors, I want to provide a list of the seven posts I've written, that I consider the most important. This list doesn't match the one with the most viewed articles, but I'll get over it ;-)

• Stop Patching And Start Rewriting
• 4 Things to Do Before Starting a New Project
• 6 + 1 Tips to Write Easily Extensible Code
• You Are Not A Programmer
• 0 Errors - 0 Warnings
• Reliability First - Embedded Systems
• The 80-20 Rule: Pareto And The Devil

So now, what's next? More posts, of course. Maybe some guest-post (I've asked a couple of colleagues of mine but apparently they are lazier than me).

Thank you all for reading these pages, and, if you have some ideas on how to make them better, please share your thoughts.

Sincerely,
Luca

blogs, personal Sunday, February 01, 2015 No comments

Ideas Are Not Enough

Image by Pictofigo

Today, +Seth Godin in his daily post spoke about something that is essential for me: the importance of going from ideas to implementation.

A great architect isn't one who draws good plans. A great architect gets great buildings built.

You don't know how many times I've heard people (including myself) complaining about a new product presented by a competitor saying "I've had the same idea years ago".

So are you trying to say you are smarter? Probably not so smart to get things done. Or maybe did you think that your idea would be translated into a project by your subordinates?

Stop fooling yourself! If you want your dreams come true, stop sleeping and start working!

I've already wrote about this concept in Avoid Perfection and briefly in Everyone Matters.

blogs, development, working life Saturday, July 26, 2014 No comments

Long Life to Blogs

Someone said that blogs are dead because they have been defeated and overwhelmed by social networks. I believe this is not completely true. I'm not an Internet analyst or a social researcher and what I'm going to say only comes from my everyday experience.

Probably the only blogs that have disappeared in the last years are the ones talking about someone's everyday life. In this case, Facebook and Google+ are surely the winners. But the story ends here.

I'm a Linux developer and many of the resources that I need (documentation, samples, tutorials, troubleshooting, etc.) can be found on blogs. But also for non-technical arguments, such as politic or science, blogs still rock.

For this reason I decided to create this place. I plan to fill it with a lot of computer science, developing tips, and something about my passions.

So, long life to blogs!

The above image has been created with Tagxedo web app with many of the arguments I plan to treat in this blog.

blogs, personal Saturday, February 01, 2014 No comments