Do no harm (but take no shit)

IMHO Jira is the best bug tracking system all around. It is very user friendly, it is extremely extensible, there are tons of add ons to customize to your needs and GreenHopper brings Agile to Jira. There are many other things worth looking for, but the one great feature where I needed some help was in the worklogs.

Basically when you have a task assigned to a developer, you would like to be able to know what kind of effort/time went into completing it. Well, there is one flaw with this plan and that is that developers need to be very disciplined into entering their hours daily.

Also, they need to make sure that they did not leave any tasks out. So for me the easiest way to make sure that a dev did fill in all of their hours properly was by adding the “Recent Worklogs” add on to their tasks dashboard.

Click here to get the add on

Check it out:

Now devs do not have any excuse of forgetting to fill in their work logs. They can see this dashboard and immediately know which day they left out.

An image is worth a thousand words I’ve heard. Look at the following image. It is VERY SIMPLE.

I have two computers which even more are in the same network, actually sitting one next to each other (which works wonderfully in Dropbox’s LAN sync) and they are showing a different number of files, about 4GB difference.

So why do you want to use a Google Drive for syncing files, when it can’t sync files?!?!?!?!?

1071 files in one computer, 1041 in the other one!

Google: you need to try harder. Not criticizing you, but don’t release a product that works with users files and that does not work! I reported the problem here https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/drive/TZ4pq4fInaY/QG3VFDTlI88J

Actualizacion Ene 7: El plan de iPhone NO permite numero favorito! Y ademas de eso, ni siquiera hay disponibles! Nota mental: mandarse a pedir un iPhone 5 a Estados, sale en $650 y no me preocupo de tener que lidiar con el pensamiento tercer mundista del ICE!

TCO, conocido como total cost of ownership, es lo que a uno le cuesta tener algo durante la vida util de ese activo. En este caso, mas que activo, un juguete.

Basicamente he estado pensando si lo compro o no, por lo que me puse a sacar numeros de si vale la pena o no, tomando en cuenta que pago aproximadamente $70 al mes. Esto es por que estoy midiendome pues era mas cercano a $100. Ojo el analisis:

– Actualmente pago $840 al año por telefono o $1680 por dos midiendome. Entonces, valdra la pena un plan?
– Una cosa mas, ahora NO puedo tener un numero favorito, pero si pudiera entonces eso incluye la mayor parte de mi uso (con plan si se puede)
– Y solo me interesa el de 16GB, los otros siempre me han parecido un desperdicio en mi caso

Veamos la tabla que saco el ICE aca: http://www.grupoice.com/wps/portal/kolbi_postpago_planesyterm_planesiPhone

Esta la puse en Excel y quedo asi, basicamente la pase a dolares y con algunos acumulados. Entonces tengo que ver si quiero pagar $37 / $48 / $68 / $80 al mes de telefono y si quiero pagar inicialmente $540.00 / $318.00 / $474.00 / $186.00 / $354.00 / $282.00 o nada por el iPhone.

Entonces lo mas facil es ponerlo en una tabla y sumar. Ojo que es importante tomar en cuenta que para los planes de 12 meses vuelvo a poner $70 al mes pues ya estaria fuera de plan otra vez. Yhay que agregarle el favorito que son 7 al mes. No esta sumado pero es la parte mas importante.

Y con eso tenemos un ganador absoluto, iPhone 5 con plan 1 a 24 meses y favorito me ahorra como $400! (dele click y podra ver la tabla en grande)

Ahora la pregunta del millon, el ice ya vendio el cargamento como de seguro 10 que le mando Apple por equivocacion. Cuando vienen mas?

La noticia del mes es como colapso el puente de la pista al aeropuerto, de como paso una grua de 84 toneladas por encima de un puente de 40 (vendido por una empresa britanica que fue culpada de sobornar politicos en muchos paises) por un conductor con 14 partes.

Alguien ha visto bien el video o de cerca? Mas bien parece que choco pues vean como esta la llanta….

Opiniones? Sera que iba manejando mientras mandaba un mensaje de texto en el celular y se fue mucho para la derecha, paralizando la capital?

As I mentioned before, if you are from a third world country and not the US you generally are no one, especially for anything related to a credit card. After multiple attempts at (legally) buying a Surface, I give up!

Microsoft is the same as with other companies. If you don’t have a SSN and your credit card is outside of US, you are nobody 🙂

But I contacted MS support and they couldn’t even help me get a hold of my order. They just redirected me to the CR office which has absolutely nothing to do with the Surface.

Sid: I understand that you would like to know the status of your Microsoft Surface order you have ordered from Microsoft Store online. Am I right?
Xavier Morera: Yes
Sid: To seek assistance on this matter, I request you to contact the Microsoft Subsidiary for Costa Rica directly. This Customer Service you have reached is for North America. Please give me couple of minutes as I locate the contact information of the assigned Subisidiary Office for your location.
Sid: Please click here to view the full contact information of the Microsoft Subsidiary assigned for Costa Rica
Sid: Please note that our Support Professionals are only trained to troubleshoot issues with North American versions of our products whereas the Support Professionals at the local Microsoft subsidiaries are trained to troubleshoot issues with localized versions of our software and can assist you in your own language.

Oh, and “my language” can be English too…

And then Sid just closed the chat, didn’t even let me finish asking questions.

Sid: I hope your issue gets resolved soon.
Sid: Thank you for using Microsoft Customer Service Chat. Please feel free to come back again. We are available 7 days a week, 24 hours a day.
Chat session has been terminated by the agent.

At the end got a hold of MS Store, and that is the subject of my next post!

I wonder if MS’ developers have ever considered the fact of how awful user experience is when someone forces you to do something….

I installed Windows 8 and decided to get Skype. I get asked if I want the desktop version or Windows 8 version. I decided to be bold and go for Windows 8

Turns out I need to merge accounts to be able to use Skype for Windows 8. I DO NOT want to merge accounts as I use them for different purposes.

MS: stop forcing me to do things your way and let me use my accounts MY WAY! Thumbs down for Windows 8

So I installed Windows 8.
– First impression > Love it
– Second impression > Hate it
– Now > I *may* be able to live with it, just like I can live with…. with a little bit of extra effort

It is hard when something is not one thing but is not something else. In this case MS tried to make it such a simple UI for some things that made it unusable. Just a quick example:

Windows Mail is VERY simple, just like my Windows Phone 7. However, it is so simple that basic things like being able to look for an older mail and copy some text into the email that I am currently writing is not possible. Also, I can’t find how to add an attachment.

Both of them may be user errors, or maybe I can’t see them and that is also MS fault. Remember… don’t make me think! There is too much tax on your brain while using Windows 8! That alone could make this a Vista #2

Quiero uno, entonces me fijo a ver como es la cosa. Resumen:
– En LAFISE cuesta $30 mas $1 mensual
– En el BAC cuesta $35 mas $1 mensual y te OBLIGAN a abrir un casillero Speedbox.

No solo lo dan mas caro sino te zampan otro servicio que de por si es CARISIMO! No quiero que me obliguen a tener un casillero.

Cuando van a aprender a ser educados en el BAC en OFRECER y dejarlo a uno decidir. A la gente no le gusta que le VENDAN algo, le gusta COMPRAR las cosas. De fijo les sirve con personas menos dolores que uno…

Trate de buscar el Banco Nacional, pero como bueno banco del estado no es muy claro ni facil entender sus servicios. Punto ahi para los privados.

Ojo Lafise

Ojo el BAC

Y aca esta la parte NO bonita

Que ostinazon con el BAC!

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