Why React?

The project team wants to move away from AngularJS (v1) for all new modules. What do we choose instead?

Angular 2+ (now at version 6) is the obvious first option.

This article is an attempt to explain why I prefer React instead.

Catching a Wave

I think Google Wave could become a big thing. The idea of replacing emails with feeds of conversations is not a new one. I remember brainstorming about this with friends, and here is an old article around this idea from an ex coworker.

Career move

Today is is my last day as an Oracle employee. “Fired? Lay offs?” No, I decided to leave. “What happened?” Nothing, really. I was working with nice people, in a good environment, doing interesting work, getting a good salary.

Practical API Design

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!

Oracle eats BEA

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.

Content-aware image resizing

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.

Online Mind Mapping

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.

Moving back to Argentina

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.

Violating Java's privacy

I found myself in the need to invoke a private method of a Java class that was out of my control. I really needed it. So, I went ahead and violated the method’s privacy declaration via reflection.