José Mota — Web engineer & architect

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Singular resourcing on Rails 3 beta

Today I’ve been struggling on my project to be. I want to build it just right so I can learn Rails 3 the best way and enjoy the Ruby and Rails experience a little more. I love their ways, but sometimes it gets tough to go around the normal skeleton of an application.

Singular resourcing was harder to grasp than I thought

The idea is actually pretty simple to understand: for example, you say you want a user to access only one resume because that’s the only one he would have. The scaffold generator adjusts the routing accordingly; well, at least it should.

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July 6th, 2010 — Leave a comment!

Age still a prejudice?

When at Barcamp, I had good and bad reviews about my presentation. One of them touched me in a particular way:

I found the fact that you’re particularly young pretty unusual for someone to share your thoughts, experience and expertise. It just confused me.

My apologies to the kind and sensible person that said this to me if this is wrong. He mentioned prejudice along the comment and sought to put it apart while I was speaking. I understood and accepted what he meant. You don’t face a young rebel like me who happens to feel his life intensely that often.

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July 2nd, 2010 — 1 comment so far

Resultados do questionário: CV

Não tenho tido tempo nenhum para colocar os resultados do questionário que criei sobre currículos. Mas aproveito o pouco da manhã que tenho para publicar o relatório. Alguns dos comentários que mais gostei foram:

Um repositório central onde pudesse ter o CV actualizado em permanência (e que esta tarefa fosse simple – via wizard, exemplos, etc) e com um url único para poder divulgá-lo em sites de emprego, no meu blog professional, etc.

Permitir ser exportada para diversos formatos, quer Europass (pdf), quer resume em Latex. Onde o Europass seria utilizada na europa e o resume para quando queremos enviar para a America ou assim. Uma coisa muito importante é que o input possa ser feito através do xml do Europass.

Houve mais comentários, podem ir vê-los. Estes foram os que me chamaram a atenção pelo URL único, exportação PDF e importação XML do Europass.

Ainda não há nome?!

Há, sim; mas só vou dizer depois ;) Preciso de registar o domínio primeiro. Vou tratar também de começar a disparar o desenvolvimento para se poder testar. Em princípio a fase alpha da aplicação será só por convite, para garantir que é bem testado.

Obrigado pela vossa ajuda!

June 30th, 2010 — 1 comment so far

Wanted: Micromanagement. Dead.

Besides passion, trust is one basic pillar of success in the web industry. Micromanagement is its Megatron.

What is Micromanagement?

No, it’s not about Starcraft; but it can be related though. Quoting Wikipedia:

In business management, micromanagement is a management style where a manager closely observes or controls the work of his or her subordinates or employees. Micromanagement is generally used as a negative term.

So yea, micromanagement is a bad thing. In an industry where motivation and passion are the ultimate requirements, anti-trust behaviour is the killer. If you don’t trust your colleagues / subordinates, then something is wrong. It’s either you or them. Which one is it going to be?

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June 13th, 2010 — 1 comment so far