Steampunky… April 18, 2008
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While not exactly a steampunk worthy enterprise, I did manage to put a working USB harddrive on a picture frame. It had to be something worthy to sit near the Mac Mini at home and this is what we had at hand.
Next I’ll look for a cast iron frame and an ornate ashtray to hold a working USB hub. 
(sorry for the poor pic quality, even if we do have a high priced dslr in the house, the phone is so much easier to use )
Dan
Programmers April 10, 2008
Posted by Aurelian in day2day.Tags: freelance, NASA, programmers
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I was just thinking: why do people/companies come to us when they want a website? They could go to one of those thousand freelance sites and find cheaper programmers, designers, etc.
I’m proud to report that I’ve found the answer on my own. People come to us (or any webdev company for that matter) because we can do complex stuff. It’s not like we don’t do 4 page websites (Home, About Us, Products, Contact), because we do. I think it’s because we can (and) do unusual stuff. Check out our portfolio for examples.
And that brings me to the subject. Being a programmer in a good company (or a good programmer in a company) is a bit tricky. It’s not enough to know how to use some tools and copy&paste code found on the interweb. Almost every day you get to do an unusual task or some upgrade you’ve never thought about. And you must find a way to do it.
Building complex web applications isn’t hard, but you just need to be organized. It’s not enough to have an IDE with complex project management tools, code optimizers, frameworks and what not… You must first have them in your head.
Because I have to get back to work (and this entry is long enough for “My Very First Blog Entry Ever”), I’ll end this by telling you the only two acceptable reasons a programmer can delay/refuse executing a task:
- Because he’s bored with the project and thinks the damn thing will never get done.
- Because the client wants to control a sattelite orbiting the Earth from the admin section of his website. And that’t because NASA doesn’t want to release an API for remote satellite control and management.
A good programmer shouldn’t say things like “the project was not supposed to work like that”.
Ozy is 1yr old! ;) April 4, 2008
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Ozy is my and, sometimes, the company’s pet, the biggest eared cat in the universe.
We’ve previously decided her bday was on the 1’st of april, but then we forgot so now it’s the 3rd of April!
She celebrated with food and sleep and running around after noisy toys, like everyday actually…
Gotta love her, I mean it, you HAVE TO!
Dan
Web Developers WANTED! April 3, 2008
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We don’t call them web developers for nothing. In my experience, web people are some of the most flexible and “out of the box” thinkers out there.
The internet poses many obstacles and offers so many benefits that only the most creative people can be called “developers”.
We have interesting and cutting edge projects going on (and boring run of the mill presentation sites as well, no worries) so, if you’ identify yourself with the person described above and aren’t afraid to have your conceptions run down by people like Aurelian or Mircea, please, send me your CV at idm@ays.ro and we’ll be sure to call!
Dan
60+ to be replied. April 10, 2007
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How much mail should one read in a vacation? I only read the subjects. Been gone 4 days, got the mails on my phone, read the subjects, more than 60 mails to be replied, addressed to me, wanting from me. I didn’t sleep that well… Long zombie dream.
I came in today, opened the mails, all CC’s that didn’t involve me that much, some followups, nothing major, nothing important. Down to about 8 mails to be processed. Still alot of work, but I hate mails, these days, bad news come by e-mail.
Dan
