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A mininal contribution

Pietro Polsinelli — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:46:46 +0000

Of this video I wrote the script:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSyKEQq4gMY

It is a promotional video for Teamwork.

Defending Java..

Pietro Polsinelli — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 20:39:50 +0000

: From blog.stackoverflow.com, podcast 44 comments

Now that I have Jon Skeet on my side, the path to world dominance is open.

P.S. As there are in that stackoverflow thread a bit too sharp polemical interventions, I want to precise that the reservation about the two guys opinion expressed by my post is only a minor detail. I agree with all the main points of the webcast, the reservations about the “software architect title”, and so on.

They produce a great podcast series, and for IT it may seem simple, but it isn’t: I have to listen for professional reason to some other podcasts in IT, Java and marketing, and no one can do it rigth. They are boring, slow, predictable, worst of all, artificial. The problem is that you need an interesting and lively personality and intellectual life and also the capacity to express it quickly to make an interesting generalistic podcast, and very few people fit that.

Using Balsamiq Mockups for Teamwork ideas

Pietro Polsinelli — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:15:22 +0000

Balsamic mockup screenshot

During these holidays I had an idea whirling in my mind, and I could spell it away only by… spelling out its details. By some chance during these days I also met again Balsamiq Mockups, so I decided to give it a serious try. I wanted to design a mock up of a personal productivity tool that writes data to Teamwork. So you can use teamwork as a sort of backofffice, of which you may even not be aware of.

Well, Balsamiq Mockups just rocks. I drafted the screens, and kept refining, adding, changing: its better than paper. It does exactly what you expect it to; its a sort of canned Illustrator for dummies, focused for mock-ups.

The only limitation I found is the ability to comment extensively the mock-up, I used the tool-tip, but it goes in the way a bit.

It is an air application, and having ben developed in Adobe’s environment, it must have been a real nigthmarish work (I’m used to the luxuries of JetBrain’s Intellij). Kudos to the developer!

So I also read the entrepreneurial story behind it, quite fascinating, moreover the guy seems to be Italian! We’ve already bought a license.