My view on technology

I was reading “No B.S. Ruthless Management of People and Profits: The Ultimate, No Holds Barred, Kick Butt, Take No Prisoners Guide to Really Getting Rich” by Dan Kennedy. It makes reference to a study made to top executives. According with the referenced study, the executives, by their own account only averages 40 minutes or less of actual accomplishment. In my work as a Project Manager, we found an average developer to be productive for 80% of their time, in an 8 hours shift, it will be about 6:30 hours; plans where made with this in mind. Could that be that when responsibilities are increased and more people need to be managed by us, our own accomplishments decrease?

I was developing an application for iPhone which handl es numeric fields to register information. To my disappointment, even in iOS 4, there is no default keyboard for a Number pad including a dot “.”; there is a Number pad with numbers from 0 to 9 and the backspace, in the other hand we have the Numbers and punctuations, which includes numbers, dot, parenthesis, and other symbols. T he problem with the former is the absence of a dot and the later is that we can easily switch to the alphabetical keyboard. But what happen with the Number pad including a dot? The Number pad keyboard includes a blank space After a little search a found a couple of examples of including the dot in the kwyboard, using the blank space. First, lets say we have a text field defined and connected to the interface IBOutlet UITextField * textMoney ; And wich keyboard type is the Number Pad self . textMoney . keyboardType = UIKeyboardTypeNumberPad ; In order to include the Dot, we need to stat receiving...

Recently I was helping in a cell phone migration; contacts were the most important thing to migrate, but the devices where not directly compatible as the devices where a Nokia and a Samsung. After a couple of Google’s searches, I got to the idea that there were no application so make my life easier, so I got to the task to investigate what the vendor’s applications were capable of. I install in a Windows PC both suites, Nokia PC Suite and Samsung PC Studio, after I connect and synchronize both devices I got the option of exporting and importing contacts. From the Nokia PC Suite, I exported all contacts; as a result I got a single file including all the 100+ contacts. I then turn to Samsung’s suite and try to import from the file, but it only imports the first one. I don’t know if it has something to do with the vCard standard, but, most of the products I´ve tried do the same when reading multiple cards within a file. So, next thing to do was to create as many files as contacts to impo...