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open source – thoughts from the trenches

In open_source on August 26, 2010 at 2:47 pm

in essence i'm a software developer, what i think i do better is produce code! i'm so passionate about coding… that after while coding (10 years) i got involved into open source development "world".

after "living" in this community for a while i started to see that are some misunderstandings around the expression: "open source". people from different areas (ie. programming, marketing, sales, government, etc…) understand open source differently, even people from the same area have different opinions about open source.

and this misunderstanding/misconception are spread out there… there are people that support open source (even without realizing what it really is), there are people that just don't get it, there are people that hate it (usually after an explanation about what it is, they change their position), there are people that uses open source as a sales argument, there are people that use open source as an argument to *not* buy something, there are people that dress "che guevera" t-shirst and say that open source is the new communism and there are people that believe on it… in resume: open source concept is messy, everybody has its own.

during this post i'll try to expose my thoughts about open source, a point of view of a passionated software developer and a start-up co-founder that is creating his venture creating an open source tool.

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nosql for beginners

In beginner, nosql on August 25, 2010 at 2:04 pm

one of the most frequent question that people use to ask me about nosql is: what is the best nosql tool that enables me start with using my programming language (java, .net, php, python, etc..)? its almost impossible to have a quick answer 'cos it involves many things like: data-model, durability and usage scenario (single node, qty of nodes or cloud setup), language binding and easy to setup.

during this post i'll try to answer this question as succinct and objective as i can. this post is divided into 4 sections that will guide you to the answer ;) – one important point that i'll not cover during this post is the administration of those tools, but definitely is a really important thing to keep in mind when you select any tool.

note that this post is written for beginner not for dummies ;)

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overview of nosql @ #tdc2010

In event, nosql on August 24, 2010 at 2:40 pm

before write specifically about nosql track, i have to say that #tdc2010 was a huge and successful event, probably one of the most important in brazilian technology event's calendar, i think that jorge diz (coordinator of test track) defined well the event as the woodstock of the i.t. which bringed to the same place lot's of developers from different clans (java, .net, ruby and python just to mention the languages). i'm so proud to be part of that organization… the event enabled connections that would be almost impossible in traditional events that usually are focused on just one language or environment (what unfortunately promote clans) – those new connections will enable all of us expand our current networking. kudos for globalcode and all tdc coordinators.

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nosql @ #tdc2010

In event, nosql on August 10, 2010 at 9:03 am

after a long period without blogging…. i'm back ;) – this time i'll post about a great event that will be held here in são paulo: the developer's conference. this is the 4th edition of this, already traditional, event that this year will happen on august 20-22 (friday to sunday) and i'm here blogging to announce (in fact to publicize) that we'll have an exclusive track covering nosql technologies.

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openspotlight, wtf?!

In openspotlight on May 18, 2010 at 8:44 pm

i've been working on openspotlight at least the last 5 years of my life… it's is the ambitious and mad project that i lead. during this post i'll try to explain what it is, what it does, how it works and why its so revolutionary.

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1st no:sql(br) meetup

In event, nosql on May 18, 2010 at 4:04 pm

during this post i'll try to express my point of view about first nosql meetup here in brazil – i'll write about organization and community traction as well as the event history, the challenges, problems, numbers, improvements and future plans.

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me and nosql

In nosql, openspotlight on May 18, 2010 at 2:25 pm

here is how i got involved with nosql…

i'm project lead of an open source project called openspotlight and one of the main characterists of this project is to handle large volumes of data that are created dynamicaly (no predefined schema), to add a bit more of madness, this large volume can vary based on information technology client's department size (some small companies can generate few gigabytes, medium companies can generate hundreds gigabytes and big companies can generate terabytes easily).

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system.out.println(“hello world”);

In myself on May 13, 2010 at 3:20 pm

i've been pushed by several friends ( feuteston, salaboy and many others) to start blogging… and, until now, i used to have two standard answears: i do not have any interesting thing to write about or i'll start it soon.. just after [put some really important task here].

and what changed now?

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