Practical API Design

Posted by F Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:14:00 GMT

I wrote about API design guidelines before, collecting links, resources, papers and hoping someone would write a book on the subject.

The wait is over! Jaroslav Toulash published a book on Practical API Design!

Take a look at the book’s accompanying website for more details.

I’m waiting for my copy.

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Oracle eats BEA

Posted by F Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:37:00 GMT

To me, BEA was the big fish not long ago.

Today, BEA is the small one in the mouth of Oracle.

We are in a steep ride, jumping quickly from a start-up to becoming part of BEA and now of Oracle. I hope we can keep the “small-company” atmosphere here in our division.

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Content-aware image resizing

Posted by F Thu, 06 Sep 2007 14:16:00 GMT

Watch this video demonstrating some cool algorithms for resizing and cropping images. They analyse the content of the image and try to remove/add/stretch/shrink only those areas of the image that are less relevant.

http://www.youtube.com/v/qadw0BRKeM

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Online Mind Mapping

Posted by F Thu, 06 Sep 2007 02:06:00 GMT

A couple of smart friends of mine are strong advocates of mind maps, so much in fact that they had nothing better to do than develop http://wisemapping.com. It’s a pretty impressive online mind-mapping tool with everything you’d expect these days from a web two-oh application: rich UI, collaboration, tagging, sharing.

Here’s my first try, presenting the basic ideas behind DITA:

It’s still a private beta, with many more features coming.

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Moving back to Argentina

Posted by F Mon, 14 May 2007 03:13:00 GMT

In March, I accepted a new position within BEA, to work for BEA Argentina.

After more than six years in the U.S., my wife and I were thinking about moving back to Argentina. We were talking about doing so in 2008. Then, this opportunity within BEA came across. It was sooner than what we planned, but it was interesting for me professionally, and BEA was helping with all the relocation needs. So I accepted.

It all happened (is happening I’d say) pretty quickly. Me and my family arrived at Argentina a couple of weeks ago, and I started on this new role immediately.

April was a good exercise on getting things done, both in and out of work. Here’s just a summary:

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