by Mauricio Salazar | Jan 28, 2019 | Canada, e-Business Strategies
Some businesses try to be very efficient. All the problems should be solved in 15 minutes or less, but instead of being efficient they've become incompetent. Last year was a living nightmare. I've had some health related problems and some other technical problems...
by Mauricio Salazar | May 27, 2018 | Reviews
Last week I've spent almost 18 hours listening to "The Lost Symbol" by Dan Brown. I've read two others books from the same author "The Da Vinci Code" and "Inferno". The first book was ok, nothing amazing but entertaining. The second book was very good, not for the...
by Mauricio Salazar | Mar 26, 2018 | Reviews
The Compleated Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin Narrator Richard Ferrone Duration : 13:48:44 Parts : 11 Link on OverDrive: https://www.overdrive.com/media/92914/the-compleated-autobiography-by-benjamin-franklin The biography of Benjamin Franklin...
by Mauricio Salazar | Feb 12, 2018 | Reviews
This is an online course from the Cognitive Class Web site, this site is the new version of Big Data University's site. This site is promoted by IBM. Like others courses, I started over two o three times, before I've finished it. Sometimes, I do too many things at the...
by Mauricio Salazar | Feb 9, 2018 | Reviews
I purchased two reusable notebooks last year which are supposed to be « the last notebook you'll ever have to purchase in your life ». The content is erasable and can be uploaded to a variety of applications which will store or distribute the information. We can reuse...
by Mauricio Salazar | Feb 2, 2018 | Internet Security, Reviews
Author : Mike Shermer Book : Web Application Security FOR DUMMIES I found this book interesting. This is a short book, only 68 pages of concise material about security. The book explains how to make a plan to build a more secure Web Application and how to use the...
by Mauricio Salazar | Jan 29, 2018 | Reviews
I was curiouos about this language. I don't have any pretentions about it. I don't think that I'll become fluent next year or so. Many people ask: « Why you are going to learn that language? It's not useful for you! ». I think that is the most ignorant and stupid...
by Mauricio Salazar | Dec 21, 2017 | Reviews
World War II is a complex subject. Last year, I began to read books and listen to audiobooks about this war. Before that, I had just seen some movies about the conflict. I think it is important to understand why some horrible things happened in the world in past and...
by Mauricio Salazar | Dec 3, 2017 | Reviews
In my job, vocabulary is an important issue. The meaning of certain words can lead to problems. Some people want to say something and the others understand something else. Even trivial conversations between colleagues could result in a big issue and in every person...
by Mauricio Salazar | Dec 1, 2017 | e-Business Strategies, Reviews
I am a blogger for good or bad, and I think it's my duty to talk about bad services in order to prevent other people from having the same problem. Last week I bought a camera on Amazon.ca, the sellers looks honest, but that's not the problem. The problem is his choice...
by Mauricio Salazar | Nov 29, 2017 | Reviews
This course is part of the learning path "Become a manager". In this course the instructor gives some guidelines on how to manage a team in order to obtain results. There a two types of managers: the managers by tasks and the managers by people. Nobody is better than...
by Mauricio Salazar | Nov 28, 2017 | Reviews
This course is part of the learning path "Become a manager". In this course, the instructor gives some guidelines to welcome aboard the new employees to the company. There are many practices that are common to all enterprises, like having the equipment ready for new...
by Mauricio Salazar | Aug 22, 2017 | Projects
Since last December, I've been working on a project that implies the standard HL7 v3. HL7 means Health Level 7. It`s the maximum level of interoperability between systems. In this case the interoperability between applications. Searching for information about HL7 is a...
by Mauricio Salazar | Aug 28, 2016 | Reviews
This is a short course about accountability. This course is part of the learning path : Become a manager by Lynda.com. This a very interesting course but maybe a little difficult to implement. Like every big change in the enterprise, you will need the collaboration of...
by Mauricio Salazar | Aug 21, 2016 | Reviews
This is a short course (40 minutes or less). This course is part of the learning path "Become a manager" by Lynda.com. This site has a new way to organize courses by subject and after that you can have a new certificate to show in your linkedin profile. I'm not...
by Mauricio Salazar | Aug 14, 2016 | Reviews
This is a course that tries to teach how to make the transition from the way of managing a traditional project to managing an agile project. The instructor recomends to make a pilot projet before taking the decision that leads to the change of paradigm. I have to be...
by Mauricio Salazar | Aug 7, 2016 | Reviews
This a very good course about the process of hiring a new member of a team. The information in this course reveals the lack of preparation that some companies have to conduct interviews. There are many bias that people ignore and that prevent the enterprises from...
by Mauricio Salazar | Jul 30, 2016 | Reviews
This is a course about NoSQL by Big Data University. It's a free course, but with very valuable information about the history of NoSQL databases, the classification of these databases, as well as the recomended uses and the not so recomended uses for each kind of...
by Mauricio Salazar | Jul 8, 2016 | Reviews
This is a course about Bitcoin at Big Data University. It's a very informative course about the history and the functioning of Bitcoin. All courses at Big Data University are free, registration is required and you can have a certificate of completion after passing the...
by Mauricio Salazar | Jul 1, 2016 | Reviews
Last February, I finished to listen to the audio book of Kelly Perdew, the winner of the second series of Donald Trump's reality show, "The Apprentice". The book, "Take Command", is a kind of guide to inspire business people to hire people that were in the army for...
