November 28

Schrödinger’s project

As much as I would love to, no, this is not related to physics. Not more than a metaphor could be. Last week I told one of my coworkers that the project we just launched felt like a failure, but in fact it was a success. That’s what I call the Schrödinger’s project, similar to [...]

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November 17

Playing with jQuery traversing

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November 13

The Emotion Machine

I have finally finished reading Marvin Minsky‘s The Emotion Machine. As I read the different chapters, I had written some reviews about it ([1], [2]), but I decided not to do that anymore as I was missing the point of the book into the details. My assumption was correct: the final chapters do provide some [...]

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November 12

Azure Autoscaling

Time ago I was invited by CommonSense to perform a live webcast about Azure Autoscaling. As many of you may already know, Autoscaling is not something currently between the features that Azure provides, so doing it involves certain risks, decisions, methods and tools. I cover several of those considerations in this live webinar. This is [...]

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September 25

Cross domain POST without security

I would have bet that browsers imposed restrictions against this… but seems that they do not. Check the following question from Webmasters @ StackExchange: Can I do a non-hostile cross-domain POST now? And seems it is totally feasible: You can actually try this out at http://www.alphasmanifesto.com/tests/testPostSender.php

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