RubyConf 2007 Keynote by Matz

Does Language Matter?

Then this December 25th 2007,
expect Ruby 1.9 to be released.

Hearing "Matz" First Time

Town Meeting with Ruby Creator
(Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto)

The Journey

Ruby Hoedown 2007

Jessica Livingston of Y Combinator - Sharing about startups

interview audio - courtesy of Grid 7

The Future of Web Startups

Paul Graham's - http://paulgraham.com/webstartups.html

"...who often went into technology precisely because they felt uncomfortable with the amount of fakeness required in other fields."

BayPIGgies: Developing A Product in Python

BayPIGgies / SnapLogic
Notes: Python is Not Java / Java is not Python, either...

Advanced Django

Django - discussed by Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Django

• Constructive reasons to use Django instead of Rails
  

PHP Manual

the manual online

1. Getting Started
2. Installing and Configuration
3. Language Reference

• Basic syntax
• Types
• Variables
• Constants
• Expressions
• Operators
• Control Structures
• Functions
• Classes and Objects (PHP 4)
• Classes and Objects (PHP 5)
• Exceptions
• References Explained

4. Security
5. Features

• HTTP authentication with PHP
• Cookies
• Sessions
• Dealing with XForms
• Handling file uploads
• Using remote files
• Connection handling
• Persistent Database Connections
• Safe Mode
• Using PHP from the command line

6. Function Reference
7. PHP at the Core: A Hacker's Guide to the Zend Engine
8. FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions
9. Appendices

MySQL 5.0 Reference Manual

the reference online

1. General Information
2. Installing and Upgrading MySQl
3. Tutorial
4. Using MySQL Programs
5. Database Administration
6. Optimization
7. Client and Utility Programs
8. Language Structure
9. Character Set Support
10. Data Types
11. Functions and Operators
12. SQL Statement Syntax
13. Storage Engines
14. High Availability, Scalability, and DRBD
15. Replication
16. MySQL Cluster
17. Spatial Extensions
18. Stored Procedures and Functions
19. Triggers
20. Views
21. The INFORMATION_SCHEMA database
22. Precision Math
23. APIs and Libraries
24. Connectors
25. MySQL Proxy
26. Extending MySQL

A. MySQL 5.0 Frequently Asked Questions
B. Errors, Error Codes, and Common Problems
C. MySQL Enterprise Release Notes
D. MySQL Community Server Enhancements and Release Notes
E. MySQL Change History
F. Limits and Restrictions
G. Credits

The Django Book

the book online

Chapter 1: Introduction to Django
Chapter 2: Getting started
Chapter 3: The basics of generating Web pages
Chapter 4: The Django template system
Chapter 5: Interacting with the database: models
Chapter 6: The Django admin site
Chapter 7: Form processing
Chapter 8: Advanced views and URLconfs
Chapter 9: Generic views
Chapter 10: Extending the template engine
Chapter 11: Outputting non-HTML content
Chapter 12: Sessions, users, and registration
Chapter 13: Comments
Chapter 14: Caching
Chapter 15: Other contributed sub-frameworks
Chapter 16: Middleware
Chapter 17: Integrating with legacy databases and applications
Chapter 18: Customizing the Django admin
Chapter 19: Internationalization and localization
Chapter 20: Security
Chapter 21: Deploying Django
Appendix A: Case studies
Appendix B: Model definition reference
Appendix C: Database API reference
Appendix D: URL dispatch reference
Appendix E: Settings reference
Appendix F: Built-in template tag/filter reference
Appendix G: The django-admin utility
Appendix H: Request and response object reference
Appendix I: Regular expression reference

Team Workplace Idea

What if a small team of adjacent people be arranged
in such a way that there is a common networked PROJECTOR
to serve a REAL-TIME, ANYTIME, ANYTHING wants a certain
member to DISCUSS or CALL ATTENTION INTO.

Hmmmm, PRODUCTIVE right? Something like this:

Founders at Code (Super coders at that)

What would expect if your team is defined as
Mark Zuckerberg + (Blake Ross + Joe Hewitt)?

Well, I think that explains why Sergey Brin mentioned
liking the FB people.

Story: Parakey is the first acquisition of Facebook.

Web Trend Map 2007 - Very Creative. iA, Japan

If you are familiar of Tokyo train station map,
you'll have an additional enjoyable semantic stories as well.

Dennis Posadas: Philippine Silicon Valley

Download PDF Presentation Slide:

Rice & Chips - Innovations and Technopreneurship in Asia

Newly published book by Dennis Posadas

Book related links:

1. author blog
2. some content idea
3. at Amazon
4. invest in the Philippines for R&D
5. previous writings of dennis at KatipunanBGN

Max Levchin's more than 100% intensity

I have watched several interviews of the man himself
and several stories on him while at PayPal.

Here's another one: Max Levchin likes the edge

Inspirations from Wayne Crosby

Interview transcript and some advices from Wayne Crosby - while Zenter was not yet acquired by Google.

Filipino Tech Entrepreneur: Winston Damarillo

Readings: Wasting time on things that really don't matter - Paul Buchheit

Wasting time on things that really don't matter

Facebook's Cornerstone

- the vast real people members it have.

It's a realization what power a more real social network could bring.

Its these deeply implanted values...

that will let you be reminded of things important.

Getting these then implanted stably, involves having immersed experience.

You just have to put yourself in such a scenario where you'll get the chance to be able to internalize good practices into habits and ultimately, values.

Make it a work of art...

an you'll enjoy doing it.

Then you know what? Enjoying is the key to getting things finished. Finished well as well.

Try to live...

not a life of excuses.

A picture STILL says...

yeah, a thousand words.

Likewise, a good experience need no further explanation.

You wanna learn? Just...

put your hands right away in it.

No one truly learns than by experience.

It helps...

that you just strike that keyboard.

Maybe its called dynamic mode of thinking. It oftentimes gets something done.

Different circumstance...

calls for a different approach.

In doing something...

always start with the output.

That will make making it happen less complicated.

My definition of quality now...

is delivering and delivering it quickly.

Putting forth good effort on what will make the user of this piece of software smile and retain that memory.

In my desk, I like the beauty of...

a stacked clean sheet of papers and a pencil.

In a regular company with a long standing business...

I would rather take the overall product development lead and manager role than handle the headaches adopting to less-aware not so open-minded higher manager.

Yeah "rather" - because I guess, a truly aware team doesn't really differentiates who's what they call the manager or the engineers --- it's just that, the team knows and cares on what it takes to be of quality, fast, delivering and real fun.

There's no other way to assured future success...

than having a culture of innovation.

In your company or team, can you count how many people have such innate characteristics?

Size is less than an innovative small.

The key

... is finding the fun and just getting it started.

Readings: Whose reality are you living in? Whose reality would you rather live in? - Paul Buchheit

Whose reality are you living in? Whose reality would you rather live in? - Paul Buchheit

Readings: Beliefs, intelligence, and failure - Paul Buchheit

Beliefs, intelligence, and failure - Paul Buchheit