Diego Remus on December 02, 2009
There was a time when we had to depend on the mass media for coverage of events we couldn’t attend. Today the coverage is interactive and collaborative: participants comment live on the internet (Olivia Mitchell has published an interesting ebook about the use of backchannels like Twitter).
Some events, like Intercon, offer platforms to map, encourage and add value to content that the public shares, even calling on the public to write articles for an official collaborative book about the event. Others, like TEDxSP also have real-time coverage via Twitter. Read more…
Tags: #culturadigital, #intercon2009, #webbr2009, communication, crowdsourcing, design, development, digital culture, event, innovation, media, reputation, social, technology
Diego Remus on October 14, 2009
Here at Startupi we have talked about many web startups and their software apps. We often get more excited about their features, usage scenarios and business models than the technology “under the hood” which makes them work, despite it being the advancement of these technologies that makes their development possible.
Among the main tools for developing web applications is Ruby on Rails (RoR), a programming framework that - among other innovations in its design - incorporates principles of agile development methodologies, and which has become the tool of choice for various web projects like Twitter, and (in Brazil) Blogblogs and Brasigo (both belonging to Grupo Abril). Read more…
Tags: business, developer, development, entrepreneur, event, international, Locaweb, RoR, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, update
Diego Remus on September 04, 2009
The XXVII ENECOMP - National Congress for Students in Computing - begins today and continues until Tuesday. This time it is taking place in the capital of the state of Paraná, Curitiba. Read more…
Tags: computing, congress, development, events, lectures, workshops
Diego Remus on July 31, 2009
Hello, all! This weekend the iPhone Dev Camp was held in São Paulo, with an app developers course and various related lectures.
The photo is from the North American event, taken from the site.
It’s a good event. Tell me if you went, okay? And remember this coming week there will be a lecture on the web and a workshop in São Paulo with the founder of Facebook. Cheers!
Tags: classes, developers, development, events, iphone, lectures
Alberto Escarlate on July 08, 2009
Is hacker culture holding back American developers?
My experience with teams of developers in India and Brazil has increased my interest in a debate raised on the O’Reilly Radar blog by my friend Jim Stogdill.
The discussion came from the claim that US-trained developers are not employable by Indian standards. It was Vineet Mayaro, CEO of an outsourcing company called HTC Technologies, who first said it. His theory being that the informality of the so-called hacker culture does not train professionals in the methodologies and processes required to develop quality software. The discussion has led to a polarization, comparing Silicon Valley with India, and in my opinion Brazil is going to get thrown into the mix, too. Read more…
Tags: development, entrepreneurship, guest post, hacker culture, innovation, methodology, outsource, process, quality, software
