Category Archives: Idle

Coding Dojos Are Great

Posted on December 23, 2012 by Iván Stepaniuk

In 2012 I had the chance to participate in around dozen Coding Dojos. A Coding Dojo is, according to the codingdojo.org website: … a meeting where a bunch of coders get together to work on a programming challenge. They are … Continue reading →

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Twitter is currently down for <%= reason %>.

Posted on July 26, 2012 by Iván Stepaniuk

“We expect to be back in <%= deadline %>. For more information, check out Twitter Status. Thanks foryour patience! Following today’s Azure outage and Google Talk being out of service, now Twitter is completely down. What is wrong with the intertubes … Continue reading →

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Windows Azure nodes in Europe are down

Posted on July 26, 2012 by Iván Stepaniuk

Since 11:09 AM UTC today, the compute nodes in  the Windows Azure Platform are not responding for the West-Europe region. According to Microsoft, they [...] are experiencing an availability issue in the West Europe sub-region, which impacts access to hosted … Continue reading →

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Perfection

Posted on June 15, 2012 by Iván Stepaniuk

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900 – 1944)  

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Looking back, my first web page

Posted on April 11, 2012 by Iván Stepaniuk

Like many other geeks I know, I store and backup files forever. I just found a ZIP file containing my first website, the first on-line one that is. I’ve put this ugly monster together when I was 13 years old, … Continue reading →

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