Cool bascule bridges

Gateshead Millennium Bridge

Thomas Heatherwicks Rolling Bridge

Michael Cross invisible bridge at Dilston Grove gallery: walk on water :)

source [PL]: http://gadzetomania.pl/2008/05/19/top-10-wspanialych-ruchomych-mostow/

Fighting complexity in the real world

The past few days I’ve spent on fighting complexity. This time however, it wasn’t software I had to fight with but.. humans. I found it amazingly hard to deal with human individuals infected with desparate fear of taking responsibility. This fear combined with buerocracy resulted with ridiculous problems that should had never happened. Notice the [...]

GSoC lost, summer won

Unfortunately, it turned out today I didn’t make it to GSoC. I had issued two applications but none of them qualified. For one of them, the reason I think could be I’d chosen a project that was too complex, wasn’t highly demanded feature and it lacked concrete specification, thus making it too risky. I believe [...]

Desktop is bad

I’ve spent most of the previous week trying to set up some tools running on a windows machine. With help of our support team I’d been fighting misconfiguration and network problems trying to get that windows running right. We’d spent many hours clicking around via Remote Assistance. After that I think the idea of managing [...]

The Web of tomorrow

I read yesterday a very good article about current trends and ways the web is currently developing. The article describes what I and many others observe. The authors gathered up various signals in one place and summarized what is going on around us.
They do not try to predict what the web will look like in [...]

Online mindmaps

I make a lot of notes to keep tracking ideas, todo lists, document outlines, even for my blog posts. My notes tend to have quite hierarchical structure: items are nested with others often several levels deep. For a long time I had been using TWiki installed on localhost at home, but main issue was it [...]

GSoC: the way to save money on head hunters

The company I work for pays quite big money to head hunter companies for searching top specialists available at various locations. It saves our management’s and developer’s time so the employees do not have to waste time on searching and interviewing so much people and can focus on business tasks solely. But I found lately [...]

C++ projects

I’ve recently received several invitations for job interviews, mainly for Java or C++ developer. The fun thing is that - I guess - one of headhunters might have wanted to offer me job in.. company I already work for :) I didn’t really even talked to them but given the information they’ve sent It’s highly [...]

Brainwashing

Today I’m exhausted with two-day meeting spent mainly on watching slides and discussing things of minor importance. Things that should be covered in documentation end up just in PowerPoint slides, since documentation is full enough of boilerplate text and abbreviation flood that there’s no place in there for useful things. Two days of staring at [...]

Google Summer of Code and Android Dev Challenge

I was quite disappointed lately when I discovered that one cannot enroll for GSoC and ADC the same time. I wanted to take part in the GSoC adventure and also had I little idea for an Android app. Of course I doubt it would receive as much as $25k but anyway I wanted to show [...]