Funny stuff
Here goes a funny video about the presidential campaign in the US. Thanks do David for pointing this out!
Empire strikes Obama
Rui Alves on Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 | Posted in Funny | No Comments
May, 2008
André, bem-vindo a bordo!
Gostaria de dar as boas-vindas ao André Lopes que se junta à equipa de consultores Java da RUPEAL!
O André é recém-licenciado em Engenharia Informática de Castelo Branco! Passou com distinção na nossa “no asshole rule” e brilhou nos nossos testes técnicos internos. É o mais recente membro a integrar a nossa equipa de outsourcing em [...]
Rui Alves on Monday, May 12th, 2008 | Posted in People | 4 Comments
The shape of things to come
Brilliant.
Rui Alves on Saturday, May 10th, 2008 | | Posted in Experiences | No Comments
Microsoft is dead
Old, but brilliant post.
They still think they can write software in house. Maybe they can, by the standards of the desktop world. But that world ended a few years ago.
Rui Alves on Tuesday, May 6th, 2008 | Posted in Business | No Comments
Ruby on Rails Scaling
Just came across with this article about RoR scaling issues.
Some quotes:
“When it comes to handling massive HTTP traffic, you can scale a Rails application horizontally just like any other by replicating your front-end web servers behind a load balancer. There’s nothing about Rails that makes this more difficult than with any other technology.”
So if you don’t know [...]
Rui Alves on Sunday, May 4th, 2008 | | Posted in Software Development | No Comments
