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Help Beta Test a new agile project management tool
Are you a member of a small software development team and want to try Savila? We are looking for beta testers. The systems requirements are quite low. Savila is a WAR file that you simply deploy to your J2EE servlet container. If you are interested, c... 		Jul 4, 2007
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Venture Capitalists demand outsourcing
Wired Magazine in The Micro-Multinational: Venture capitalists now routinely demand that the companies they finance outsource what labor they can. Yogen Dalal, a partner at Mayfield, says more than half the companies he funds have offshore workers. The... 		Jun 27, 2007
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Someone interested hearing about software development in Panama?
Since moving to Panama City, Panama (the country in Central America where the Panama Canal is located, not the city in Florida), last year I've been involved in the project of a local client and started my own in March. Both experiences have given me a... 		Jun 25, 2007
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It does make a difference whether you are just developing or using it
After the first day using Savila I can say that it does make a difference whether you are just developing a product for someone else or you are using it yourself. Within a few hours of real use we could find a larger number of bugs or other inconsisten... 		May 7, 2007
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Tasteful food for developers
The day when you start using the product you are working on is a special day in a developer's life. At my company Caimito we've started today to use the product we are building: our dogfood is called Savila 0.2. 		May 7, 2007
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Why I love test-driven development
Here is a very good example why I am a big fan of TDD (test-driven development). Instead of writing a specification or a requirements document I wrote the following test case and let Eclipse create a few new classes for me. Then I wrote enough code to ... 		Apr 16, 2007
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Java stack for all purpose development
You can't know everything and have experience with any and all technologies that might be used to solve a given problem. Instead it is a good idea to limit yourself to a certain set and become in an expert in those. The deep knowledge you will gain wil... 		Mar 19, 2007
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Evaluating technologies for new product development
We are working on a new software product, which will be maintained over several iterations. Although we've created a small working prototype, we are still evaluating technologies we want to use or, as one might want to say, bet on. When you develop a p... 		Mar 11, 2007
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Starting to love EJB3 Hibernate Annotations
As our current project allows for some experimentation and adoption of recent technologies, we spent today with EJB3 Hibernate Annotations to get away from the XML configuration one used to create with Hibernate before. The annotations need to be plac... 		Mar 8, 2007
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Tapestry: first experiences
Together with Fidel, Caimito's new hire in Panama, I started to experiment with the component-based web framework Tapestry. We were inspired by Brian Sam-Bodden's book Beginning POJOs and Brian's personal recommendation of Tapestry. There are two type... 		Mar 4, 2007
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SysAdmin services for small and medium-sized businesses
The number of dedicated servers at colocation facilities is large and seems to constantly increase. But who takes care of all those systems, who does administer them? When you rent a dedicated server, then you are the SysAdmin. The colocation provider ... 		Sep 24, 2006
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Welcome Antonio
Please welcome Antonio Touriño to our Panama office. His current duties are mainly maintenance and administration of Unix servers (currently that is Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X), but he has also a background in database centric PHP and Java software d... 		Aug 23, 2006
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Quite fast
Since Friday the new 2 mbps dedicated Internet access is working now and the first experience is quite a pleasant one. It's fast, ping times from Panama to the US or to Europe are much shorter than over cable modem as before. Here a traceroute to Tamp... 		Aug 19, 2006
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Fiber Optics for Internet Access
Currently we use a 1 mbps connection that runs over TV cable. It was installed some time ago as a means to get any kind of IP access into the office - just to get started. In general it works nice, but at times it's flaky and ssh sessions drop or a fil... 		Aug 15, 2006
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Moving in
Our furniture finally has arrived here in Panama. Right now the office looks almost like a warehouse, but we hope to clean up that mess in a few days. It's about time to get back to regular office work without answering relocation related phone calls a... 		Jul 23, 2006
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Fourth day in Panama City
We are now here in Panama since Monday. As our container still has not arrived yet, we sleep in an empty apartment with just a mattress and live out of our suitcases. We are lucky though as we have several good restaurants right in front of the apartme... 		Jul 13, 2006
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Arrived in Panama and started working in my new office
Last Sunday I've arrived well in Panama and today began working in my new office in downtown Panama City. Although I had some trouble with a box embargo American Airlines puts into effect between June and August I got my PowerMac and Cinema display wit... 		Jul 10, 2006
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We're finally relocating to Panama
The last few weeks weren't easy. My wife and I had to spent all the time in Germany due to an emergency in our family there. That postponed our relocation to Panama. This week all our stuff from the home and office gets packed into boxes. Monday we're... 		Jun 29, 2006