Coimbra Directory →
Companies innovating in Coimbra
Next on the queue: The Art of the Start by Guy Kawasaki. See the presentation.
Bringing Nothing To The Party
Read this book some months ago. Paul Carr, who is now blogs at TechCrunch, writes about his “not-entirely-successful” adventures as entrepreneur. You can download it for free.
More than anything, it’s an entertaining reading. The author hasn’t what you could call a perfect character, and that adds much to the plot. If after reading it, you get curious about the participants, check out their twitter list.
Close to the same topic, but fiction, I found two interesting books on this Fred Wilson’s post: Grumby by Andy Kessler and Makers by Cory Doctorow (which you can also download for free).
NoSQL, Rails and MongoDB
After some research on NoSQL databases, for a future rails project, the projects that caught my attention were:
I’ve spent some more time MongoDB. Their list of prodution deployments is impressive. John Nunemaker developed an adapter for ruby, the MongoMapper, which already supports some neat features like validations and callbacks, much on the ActiveRecord style. See this article and the presentation below for more info:
Still have to spend some time experimenting with it, but it seems promising.
Has anyone tried NoSQL with rails, on a recent project? Thoughts to share?
life @ coimbra →
I’ve created another tumblr (the last, I promise), this time to share music, trips and more random thoughts. It will be in Portuguese though. Hope you enjoy it =)
"You can’t afford to be number two, or to have a “good enough” product. It has to be remarkably good, by which I mean, so good that people remark about it. The lagniappe that you get from the really, really, really talented software developers is your only hope for remarkableness."
Hitting the High Notes by Joel Spolsky
Weekend reading
New website(s)
In order to increase the frequency of my posts, I’ve changed this blog to a Tumblr account. I hope the service’s simplicity helps.
Meanwhile, I’ve been accumulating project ideas, clearly too many for me. So I opened up another Tumblr where I can dump them, and where they might inspire others. It’s called Ideas Notebook. Go check it out.
Notebooks
Notebooks is one of those items I love looking at. I usually carry my faithful reporter moleskine. Yesterday I saw a mention of the gorgeous About:Blank notebook, and I though to share with you some nice alternatives to the moleskine:
If you still haven’t found your perfect notebook, your can always make your own.
