By Agustin M Rela Translated by Fabian Schonholz I hired Ramiro Rela back in late 2002 or early 2003. The reality is that I did not want to hire him because he did not have the relevant experience I was looking for. I would have had to contend with mutiny had I not hired him. [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Technology’
July 23, 2008
From my iPhone
Wow…can you believe it. An iPhone app to write on my blog. This is fantastic and believe it or not, this post is being written on my iPhone. The aspect I will need to figure out is workflow. Normally after I write a post my wife edits it and then it gets published. Such a [...]
March 11, 2008
A Hybrid Solution
In an early blog posts, Building Scalable Web Systems, I discussed very high level some of the needed premises and basis to architecting scalable systems. What the post did not deal with is insurance and Downtime. What is the point of scalability if you have downtime and what is the business continuity plan that maximizes [...]
February 17, 2008
Ducks, Rows, Lines And Business Processes
Image courtesy of rengawman.wordpress.com I like my ducks in a row. Oh yes .. I do indeed. Every time my ducks get out of alignment I react, to some extent, poorly. This is particularly true as I help build companies through technology. Technology is just a business tool and even though it may take center [...]
February 10, 2008
The End Of Progress
NOTE: In order to make the best read of this post – but you do not have to – you can read The Last Question, by Asimov (at https://filer.case.edu/dts8/thelastq.htm) and one of my previous posts called Downtime (at http://www.fabianschonholz.com/2008/01/06/downtime) — A few weeks ago surfing the web I discovered a short story by Asimov I [...]
January 13, 2008
The Cost Of A Startup
Once a month, on the second Friday of most months, a CTO networking group that I belong to meets. Each meeting starts with a speaker – speaker in the loose term because it is not a fixed format – and then leads to questions and answers by the members and to discussions. This Friday the [...]
January 6, 2008
Downtime
A couple of weeks ago there was a blog post at TechCrunch (www.techcrunch.com) regarding web sites experiencing downtime as well as infrastructure companies experiencing failures in their operations. Obviously, the first take was on the revenue loss that each one of those companies experienced. In the case of the infrastructure company the concern and criticism [...]
January 6, 2008
In The Pursuit Of Art
Recently I have gone bonkers with photography. What I mean by recently is the last couple of weeks. I have been bonkers about photography for a very long time. The last two week however, have been extra bonkers. I have a Nikon D80 that I bought about a year ago. This year I gave myself [...]
November 11, 2007
The Power Of Estimating A Project Specially On A Startup
Startups are interesting “beasts”. I should know, I have a few under my belt. I worked on my own startups, for which I had a hard time funding thus they never really went anywhere, and since I was the only source of investment, not only did they not go anywhere, but I was taken along [...]
