Archive for March, 2011

Pedro Newsletter 1.04.2011

Thursday, March 31st, 2011

Finally “Sunny California” is sunny.


Pedro Newsletter 31.03.2011

Wednesday, March 30th, 2011

And now for something completely different: King of the Apps: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 and Part 6.


Pedro Newsletter 30.03.2011

Wednesday, March 30th, 2011

 

And now time for something completely different: Bobcat Tuesday :>


Amazon Cloud Drive and Play

Wednesday, March 30th, 2011

Amazon is awesome!

Everyone of us have a lot of music files. You can try “du -hs Music/“, I’m getting 100+GB answer, and this is just the part of my music, mostly because “df -h” is saying “Avail 4.5Gb” .
This is after I purge more than 50GB of music.

I’m also user of Grooveshark and Pandora services, because I cannot have all my music.

But the world is changing now, Amazon announced two services:

To start using both services you have to accept terms and you are ready.

Cloud Drive is build on top S3 and you get 5Gb for free. Of course you can buy more till 1000Gb. There is also Metadata Service that allows us to search our files stored into Cloud Drive.

Some photos:
Cloud Drive:

Cloud Player:

Amazon Uploader:

There is also web player as well Android app. Every purchase you made in Amazon MP3 Store or by Android App can be stored in Cloud Drive, than played from whatever place.

Hope Cloud Player for iPhone is in review queue, so it should be announced soon.

My summary: This is Awesome.


Pedro Newsletter 29.03.2011

Tuesday, March 29th, 2011

 

Registration for WWDC 2011 has started, and Jeff as every year have great tips for all you lucky ones and before I posted this news, WWDC tickets are sold out!


about me

My name is Sebastian Pietrowski. I've finished Warsaw University as Master degree. During my studies I started work for merlin.pl. The primary language I use is Java but I have also programmed in Python, Ruby and Scala. I worked as a technical solution architect at merlin.pl. infrastructure when we were moving from PL/SQL to J2EE. I engineering a great performance optimized solution that made the application 10 times faster than requirements and 85 times faster as original solution.

Currently, I am working as a Senior Expert at F.Hoffmann-La Roche to help define future roadmap in design and development of Enterprise software at Roche and Genentech and build adoption for new technologies. I'm continuously mentoring new developers, helping them understand how important test driven development is and empowering them to get better at their daily job. I'm involved in many activities which brings new technologies for better and faster development. You can find more details on my LinkedIn profile.

But don’t get me wrong, I am not your typical nerd. I'm a pleasant guy that you can drink a glass of wine with me and talk about a range of topics with. My leisure activities include playing basketball, soccer and listening to music. I try to be pragmatic while staying focused on application performance and tuning with success in my daily work.

My favorite quote from Yoda's and my life’s motto is: Do, or do not. There is no try.