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The Turning Point

As you may have noticed, with the language change (from portuguese to english), I decided to also change the blog’s name, since the previous one wasn’t saying very much.

The new name is based on the book I’m currently reading (and recommend), The Turning Point, by Fritjof Capra, which can be described like this (from Wikipedia):

It begins by outlining and tracing the history of science and economics, highlighting the flaws in the Cartesian, Newtonian, and reductionist paradigms. It narrates how such viewpoints have grown inadequate for modern technology and ecology needs, then argues that science needs to develop the concepts and insights of holism and systems theory to solve society’s complex problems.

Just to show you why I am really enjoying this book, here goes a sentence extracted from it (it has been already posted before, but it was in Portuguese, so I thought about translating it… free translation from the portuguese version):

“The complexity of our technological and industrial systems has now reached a point where many of these systems can not be modeled or managed. Failures and accidents occur with increasing frequency, unexpected social and environmental costs are continually generated, and more time is consumed maintaining and regulating the system than providing useful goods and services.” – Fritjof Capra – The Turning Point

Despite being from 1984, I think this specific sentence could be used to describe the vast majority of software development projects now in 2008 (just 24 years later), and that’s why I’ve chosen this blog’s title. Because I believe that the software development industry is reaching its turning point, the paradigm is changing (not as fast as we want, that’s true), and this blog is meant to be just another forum to discuss the new ideas being proposed (and also the old ones, when they are better than the new..).

Well, that’s it. Hope you enjoy!

Cheers.

Language change… (again?)

Well, well, well….

As you may notice in the future posts, this blog isn’t written in Portuguese anymore, and from now on, I will try to write all my posts in English. The reason behind this change is that I wanted to share ideas with a greater number of persons, and also because I realized that mantaining two different blogs would request much more time than I am prepared to spend doing it.

I’m sorry for changing the language (again), but you have to understand that this is a new blog, written by a new guy who just moved to a new place . Hope you don’t mind that I might have also a bad written english knowledge sometimes (still learning…). If you find anything wrong, please let me know!
As far as the brazilian public is concerned, I sincerely believe that all persons reading this blog can easily read english, so I don’t think they will be prejudiced. Hope I’m right!

See you next post!

Angels Orphanage

Esse post sai um pouco dos assuntos habituais do blog, mas nem por isso trata de algo menos importante. Pelo contrário, trata de um assunto muito mais relevante do que como desenvolver software.

Contextualizando, eu estou atualmente participando da ThoughtWorks University, em Bangalore, na Índia. Ontem, devido à inspiração fornecida pelo Roy, que é o dono da empresa (e tambem um cara excepcional), e devido a organização realizada por alguns outros colegas (aos quais eu sou extremamente agradecido ), nós fomos visitar o Angels Orphanage, um orfanato aqui da cidade, onde 70 crianças vivem em um espaço que deve ser um pouco maior do que os quartos onde nós costumamos dormir.

Essa foi a minha primeira visita a um orfanato, e também foi a primeira vez que eu percebi a alegria que pode ser proporcionada a essas crianças somente dando pequenos presentes, como uma bola de futebol, ou oferecendo um pouco de tempo e atenção durante uma tarde, como fizemos ontem.

De certa forma fiquei um pouco pra baixo por essa ter sido a minha primeira vez, principalmente pq eu venho do Brasil, um lugar onde também existem milhares de crianças nessa situação que eu poderia ter ajudado de alguma forma. Mas por outro, também fiquei contente por ter finalmente feito isso, e espero que consiga continuar e não ter que esperar outros 25 anos por uma nova oportunidade.

E se eu tiver sorte, espero poder influenciar alguma pessoa que venha a ler esse post, para que ela também possa vir a ajudar.

Um abraço.

Hello world!

Well, like the title says.. “Hello World”. Since this is my first post, I´m just writing to let you know I´m alive. Come back soon for some posts about software development, agile methodologies and other stuff.

Since I’m brazilian, I will be writing posts in portuguese and english. I hope you don’t mind!