Solving tech problems

What your ideas are worth in the terms of money?

Company stuff, Products and Services, Thoughts

As said before in previous blog post we can differentiate all people roughly in three groups Talkers He never misses an opportunity to tell everyone in sight about his goals for the day, the week or even the month ahead Whenever anything favourable and worth noticing happens in the office, he finds an excuse to talk about it Not only does he impress his supervisors and bosses, even his customers are impressed, for quite some time, at least Thinkers He is one who is not short of ideas and is…read more

Cheapest hosting for startups that want to save money

Company stuff, System Administration

You and your team are building the SaaS product that will have the high impact on existing market or open a new one and you want to minimize the costs of the hosting in the beginning? First option is to find some hosting provider and pay them about 5o$/month. Question is if you need professional hosting in the beginning (during development and customer discovery). Second option is that you already have a good internet at your home. It is very usual nowadays that you have fibre optics with symmetrical download…read more

About making strategic entrepreneurial decisions

Company stuff, Decisions, Learning

As an entrepreneur you need to make a lot of strategic decisions and they all share these characteristics: They need to be decided in a limited amount of time (means fast) and very often under a stress You don’t know for sure what will be the final outcome as an impact of your strategic decision These are high-stake and high-risk decisions These decisions cause a significant allocation of resources (time, money, people, knowledge, …) You have a lot of different paths to choose but you need to choose the right…read more

Global warming or global cooling – what is more dangerous for an IT?

Technologies, Thoughts

It is the end of the week, so let’s look around us what is happening and how we will spend our weekend. In USA temperatures are -35°C but here in Europe we have 15°C and no snow for skiing. I always thought that science is an exact discipline but having this conflict between climatologists and environmentalists where they can not decide and agree (with probability greater then 50%) if we are coming to the new ice age or the new melting age (global warming), I became sceptical. Maybe the opinion…read more

New possibilities with Intel Edison, smallest SD card sized computer

Technologies

Miniaturization is flourishing and the result is Intel Edison the SD card-sized computer. Basically it is low-power 22nm 400MHz Intel Quark processor with two cores, integrated Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, NAND flash storage and can run Linux. All this in a size of an SD card. It is now up to us to see how creative we can be in using this fine piece of technology. So, let’s be creative and participate in Intel challenge Make it Wearable – up to 1,5 million dollars as reward. You can participate your Visionary…read more

Daily project: Automatic Twitter status updater

Programming

I like to read great quotes, because they express the wisdom and the creativity of human race. So, I was thinking how I can share them automatically on my Twitter account. First task was to find out the source of great quotes and RSS/Atom feeds are perfect data source to complete this task. After some researching I found out few publicly available sources on BrainyQuote.com: Quotes of the day: https://feeds.feedburner.com/brainyquote/QUOTEBR Love quotes: https://feeds.feedburner.com/brainyquote/QUOTEFU After having the source all we need to do now is to parse these RSS feeds and…read more

Top 10 query optimizing tips for MS SQL Server

Databases

During my 15 years of experience and working on various projects that involved using MS SQL Server in combination with C# programming language, and also gathering knowledge from different conferences, especially from the last one that occured today at SQL Saturday by ApexSQL where Miloš Radivojević showed some tips, I tried to summarize this knowledge in a small list of recommendations that you should be aware of when writing the Transact SQL queries… 1. Using local defined variables When possible always try to use direct values instead of variables (this…read more

Looking for a dream job? Job interview questions

Learning

I have found somewhere these questions, so it is a good opportunity to put this live… RELEVANT EXPERIENCE What skills do you possess that will help make you successful in this job? Why should we hire you? Have you ever worked in a similar position with another organization, and what did you enjoy most about and least about it? Please discuss some of your past jobs and what you accomplished in them? What prior work experiences have you had? What were your accomplishments in these prior work experiences? Please tell…read more