Now that the important news is out (and starts sleeping at night), the time has come for another announcement: as of May 4th I have left Sourcesense. To many this might come as a shock, and I have troubles believing it myself: after all, I founded the company five years ago, so my departure has [...]

My name is Laura, and I was born little more than an hour ago. I am healthy, full of brown hair and eager to meet my sister. As usual, mom has been nothing short of awesome, and she’s now resting. See you soon, sis!

The good news, I’m back to blogging after a few months of hiatus. The bad news, I wish I had better stuff to write than this rant/complaint/rectification. The good news, my press clipping database just got bigger, my mom will be happy. The bad news, I have been seriously misrepresented. The good news take an [...]

Whoa – six months have passed since my last post, clearly there is something wrong with my blogging schedule. It’s not like I’m lacking interesting stuff to write about, it’s just that free time has become quite an abstract concept over here: let’s just say that I’m an ecstatic new father, a busy man and [...]

Hell must be a jolly bone-chilling place today, as Matt Asay himself causes quite a stir on Twitter and the blogosphere by arguing that Apache [is] better than GPL for open-source business. It’s good to see Matt, a long time GPL die-hard, considering switching sides. I can’t resist, however, noting how I happen to disagree. [...]

Time for shivers in IT as the big news of Oracle buying Sun is more than likely to have someone worried. It’s too early to know whether Oracle will disembowel Sun and sell its mortal remains, butcher MySQL into Oracle CE (Children Edition, that is) or just see the light and do something truly innovative, [...]

My $DEITY, BarCamps are fun! I spent a great Sunday in Oxford, together with a bunch of fellow Apache-ans and my new colleague: the venue exceeded my expectations by far, with loads of informative content, great fun and amazing views of Oxford during the post-lunch walkabout. I took the liberty to set up a session [...]

A couple of weeks ago I was having an absolute blast in a small-yet-packed room at ApacheCon Europe, where I presented on software sustainability, a topic that’s very close to my heart. Slides are embedded below (and available here), even though chances are you won’t make a lot of sense of them (I hate bullet-point [...]

While I have mixed feelings about Guy Kawasaki, I find some of his advice absolutely crucial to running a successful company. One of my mantras has always been the “hire better than yourself” motto, and this pragmatic yet effective advice guided me into building an incredible team in Sourcesense, where I am constantly amazed by [...]

… but with a heck of a great reason not to post much (other than being swamped by work, traveling around the world, yadda-yadda): From Alessandra Be back soon!