Gates vs Jobs

Thursday, July 5th, 2007

Widgets

Sunday, May 13th, 2007

There are everywhere, please stop them or …. maybe use them ?.
The widgets are useful small programs run on top on widget engine. For someone who must use windows it’s a killer feature. Thanks to them you can enhance your pulpit and do many things you can’t in pure Windows installation. This is the brief list of widgets. I have used only Yahoo widget IMO it’s ok, and ab5k it’s ok … but now there are few widgets which are toys. If you use some of them please feel free to comment, and share your point of view. And now The List:

  • XUL the first one as I know, it can be run on mozilla products (thunderbird, mozilla, firefox). Thanks to XULRunner you can run it without this platforms. Thousands plugins, but the technology is a little bit old.
  • AB5k for java users it java 6 widget system. Today it has too little widgets out of box but who knows ..
  • Google Gadgets (they must have own name ;) ) – many many widgets and of course Google can’t be wrong.
  • Microsoft Gadgets they must have own name too, but they probably don’t know Google Gadgets. There are about 1 thousand of M$ widgets. It was created for Vista but, there is also XP port (not from M$ ofcourse).
  • Yahoo Widget my favorite, maybe not the best. Yahoo get widgets with one of firm which yahoo bought. The widget is nice and good looking. There are many useful widget for example JIRA widget which has ability to get your task list into desktop. There are about two thousand widget so you find something useful for you. One more think, you can’t use if you havn’t enough free memory.
  • AOL has widget system called Boxly.

There are also many open source solutions iCarousel .

Which are the bestm i don’t know, IMO I suggest choose your favorit, install it, keep it and claim it’s the best ;)

Artist souls

You have a soul of artist? This site is for you “Portrayl” . It allows you to create story, adding chapters, and when you decided it is done, you can create eBook. The point is that others people can add chapters to your story too. From friend of mine there are also second literature social site from AOL called Ficlet, so now it’s time to consider if better make startup for google for few millions $ or write another Harry Potter for many-millions $. Good Consider Time ;)

Regards

DHTB

Sunday, April 22nd, 2007

Lastly I have found programmer personality test and made it for fun, here is my result. You can try here

Your programmer personality type is: DHTB

You’re a Doer.
You are very quick at getting tasks done. You believe the outcome is the most important part of a task and the faster you can reach that outcome the better. After all, time is money.

You like coding at a High level.
The world is made up of objects and components, you should create your programs in the same way.

You work best in a Team.
A good group is better than the sum of it’s parts. The only thing better than a genius programmer is a cohesive group of genius programmers.

You are a liBeral programmer.
Programming is a complex task and you should use white space and comments as freely as possible to help simplify the task. We’re not writing on paper anymore so we can take up as much room as we need.

week or two weeks off

Friday, March 30th, 2007

Last week I was on vacation, and now another week off. Everything beacuse of because of man’s stupid-ness.

I like Scoble’s idea and will be taking the week off.

Good luck

Goggle

Friday, January 26th, 2007

I’ve working on post about mavenization, but for now I want to share with something amazing. I always think about Google Maps API as something great, but Goggle amazed me.

Flight Simulator is in danger now. When you want to play, you must for sure set alarm before starting.

So set the alarm and go http://www.isoma.net/games/goggles.html

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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.