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Rework

This book remarks definitely the reality that some of us are living day after day. Flexible determined individuals that work for the love of their craft and do not care about the system. For those who do not know about 37signals.com, this guys have created for an example Ruby on Rail, an open sourced computer programing language that empowers much of today 2.0 world. Also they have created tools such as Basecamp, a project management tool that is generating millions of dollars in profits and few other great applications. Go get the book and start today to change the way you work and think about business. With its straightforward language and easy-is-better approach, Rework is the perfect playbook for anyone who’s ever dreamed of doing it on their own.

The future trough the eyes of Sam Pitroda

Some mornings before going to the office a couple of online newspapers are reviewed. In this case BBC served a good breakfast by introducing to me Mr. Sam Pitroda and he’s perspective about the future of internet. It’s not just the future, is the present of internet what is influencing our lives, relationships, education and so, so many things are changing due this such a complex environment that is the INTERNET.

New order, the RoR order.

Managing, or lets say creating multimedia applications during these days is not an easy task, well it has never been. Techology is running over us from all angles, from servers to languages, from frameworks to open source, from formats to versions. It is an endless river of data to digest,  it is going fast and it’s not going to stop.

For this ocasion I have a new guest in the party, it’s name is ROR or let’s call it “Mr. Ruby”. I have being looking around and trying to get the most accurate information about it. So I can get to know it better and to develop a good relationship with it. Or not?

Below a couple of interesting links:

www.techcrunch.com
www.rubyonrails.org
www.zedshaw.com

Charles Geschke & Adobe

Founders at work

I’m reading carefully a book named Founders at work writed by Jessica Livingston, and trough it I’m discovering really great histories about important individuals who have created some of the top technological and Internet companies in the world. The book is packed with interviews about this leading group of entrepreneurs that changed our world. The idea that I have is to publish a series of posts about them on my blog so you can get to know them better and maybe get some inspiration for you own. This post is dedicated to Charles Geschke, the co-founder of Adobe. Why is he the first? Because I love Adobe products!

Charles M. “Chuck” Geschke (born 1939) is best known as the co-founder with John Warnock of Adobe Systems Inc., the graphics and publishing software company, in 1982.

Born in Cleveland, Ohio, on