Alessandro Pistilli Blog - New York City » Tech http://www.apistilli.com In love with Web, Mobile, Music, Cloud Computing, Scalability, Food and Travels. Sun, 25 Jul 2010 07:05:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 In Search of Stupidity http://www.apistilli.com/2009/06/14/in-search-of-stupidity-over-twenty-years-of-high-tech-marketing-disasters/ http://www.apistilli.com/2009/06/14/in-search-of-stupidity-over-twenty-years-of-high-tech-marketing-disasters/#comments Sun, 14 Jun 2009 16:46:34 +0000 alessandro http://www.apistilli.com/?p=200 In search of stupidityYou have to read this book!

(From wikipedia) This book explores, in a humorous tone, the art and science of management used by high-technology companies.

In Search of Stupidity is a parody of In Search of Excellence. Its central thesis is that the most determinant factor for success in the high-tech market is avoidance of stupid mistakes. It tries to exemplify that it is possible to set up an industry wide doctrine without solid base. This book’s existence could be interpreted that a good manager should not trust any single doctrine for management, and even traditional common sense might work better than a strict doctrine based on poor data.

In search of stupidity

]]> http://www.apistilli.com/2009/06/14/in-search-of-stupidity-over-twenty-years-of-high-tech-marketing-disasters/feed/ 0 Links of the week http://www.apistilli.com/2009/04/30/links-of-the-week-5/ http://www.apistilli.com/2009/04/30/links-of-the-week-5/#comments Fri, 01 May 2009 03:56:28 +0000 alessandro http://www.apistilli.com/?p=155 Small Team, Big Impact: The People Behind Photos
At Facebook, it’s common for small teams of three or four people to work together in creating products that are used by millions of people around the world. Watch how the team behind Facebook’s Photos application helped it become the most popular of its kind on the Internet.

Five more ways of thinking that can doom IT leaders

Lost laptops cost companies $50,000 apiece
A single lost or stolen laptop costs a business almost $50,000 on average, according to findings from an Intel-sponsored study by the Ponemon Institute.

6 music services compared: Who can bust the iTunes monopoly?

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From managing databases to shopping, writing blogs to sending emails. Ten years of passion, great software architectures, team work and revolutionary ideas. Here are the most influential open-source PHP applications to date. My favs: phpmyadmin, wordpress, zend framework!

Experiences deploying a large-scale infrastructure in Amazon EC2
Folks at OpenX recently completed a large-scale deployment of one of their server farms to Amazon EC2. Here are some lessons learned from that experience. Useful for everybody!

Real Time Cities, or Just Info Porn?
Andrea Vaccari, from the SENSEable City lab at MIT, spoke at ETech recently about how cities are being transformed by mobile Web technologies. He described MIT’s project WikiCity, which monitors cell phone traces in Rome and creates visualizations from them.

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I’ve travelled for work and pleasure to Italy. But I’m back with my weekly links!

Technology related:
- Jailbreak an iPhone 3G – Wired How-To Wiki (http://ping.fm/FwYuK)
- 10 Principles of the PHP Masters – Nettuts+ (http://ping.fm/oscR9)
- Why I chose Zend Framework for Enterprise – Jim Plush’s Programming Paradise (http://ping.fm/XdzI0)
- Performance – When do I start worrying? « Empyrean (http://ping.fm/goRJ8)

And some link about Google:
- Why I Quit Google (GOOG) (http://ping.fm/xex53)
- Google Brings Free Music Downloads to China – ReadWriteWeb (http://ping.fm/mdJsB)
- What Could Go Wrong With Google: The Slideshow (http://ping.fm/2mXMq)
- Google Should Offer To Buy Twitter For $1 Billion (GOOG) (http://ping.fm/JCLh1)

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Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Mistakes

The 10 biggest mistakes IT managers make

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10 CSS Tips Every Web Developer Should Know

97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know

Online resources for Zend Framework

10 Papers Every Software Architect Should Read (At Least Twice)

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Manhattan Condo Buyers Walk Away From $1 Million Down Payments

Unsold Manhattan Condos Are Piling Up

Recipe for Disaster: The Formula That Killed Wall Street

 

Technology:

20 cynical project management tips 

On Cross-Browser Compatibility

How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data 

]]> http://www.apistilli.com/2009/03/01/links-of-the-week/feed/ 0 How To Build An iPhone App http://www.apistilli.com/2009/02/23/how-to-build-an-iphone-app-a-guide/ http://www.apistilli.com/2009/02/23/how-to-build-an-iphone-app-a-guide/#comments Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:30:33 +0000 alessandro http://www.apistilli.com/?p=124 Check this out!

Ten23 Software writes about their experience with iPhone application development.

The result is a sort of how to about do and don’t!

Building PhotoKast: Creating an iPhone app in one month

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Handle 1 Billion Events Per Day Using a Memory Grid

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