Welcome to www.mistriotis.com.
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CV
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- My current CV: Dimitrios Mistriotis CV.
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My Book: IT Archetypes
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- - In an era defined by software, we actually know very little about the people who write all those lines of code that power it. - "IT Archetypes" aims to change that. -
- -Podcasting
- -CyberSpectrum
- -- CyberSpectrum: - A podcast in Greek about society, IT, literature, immigration and living abroad. -
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Blogging
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- - Reading Hacks: my reading more HOW-TO, local copy - -
General
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- - Red Flags in Interviews, local copy - -
- - Comic Strip Inspiration for IT, local copy - -
- - (Greek) Ας μιλήσουμε για ψευδείς ειδήσεις, local copy - -
- - (Greek) Τι δεν θα μου λείψει από αυτούς που γράφουν άρθρα για το τι δεν θα τους λείψει από την Ελλάδα, local copy - -
- - (Greek) Η άποψη μου για το τι συμβαίνει στην Ελλάδα τα τελευταία δέκα χρόνια, - local copy - - -
UK IT business - the bad and the ugly
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- - Discusing the negative aspects, because we all know the positive. - Was initially thinking of a long essay, but decided to split it into smaller pieces. First one is titled "Problematic business relationships" and is about the orientation of UK's IT industry, local copy - -
- - Second is the "Kiske field" about hiring and promotions, local copy - -
- - Last one is "culture shocks" about differences in business culture and conclusions, local copy - -
- - Decided to write again on the subject after some experiences: Why I will never work again for a "London" company - -
- - Some more thoughts on the companies that decide out of nowhere to onboard a very big client account: - Problematic Business Relationships part 2, the cult of the one big client, - local copy, hacker news link - -
Startups
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- - Your old posts: How Austin’s Yourself Online helps delete the past, local copy - -
- - Entroware Apollo review, local copy - -
- - Reflections on "On the beach": - IT personalities, job hopping and staffing - - local copy - -
- - On London Startups: The good the bad and the ugly part 1, - local copy - -
- - On London Startups: The good the bad and the ugly part 2, - local copy - -
Startups - Articles in Greek
- -- A series of articles in Greek about startups, mainly IT related. Written in - Greek because of limited content available in that language as well as - having an emerging small startup scene at the timeof writing. Posting as - guest of tnfy blog not only because I liked - it and wanted to contribute there, but also because the layout changes, the - images and other contributions of the owner elevate copy's quality to the - next level. Blog now defunct, outbound links from web archive. - -
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- - Startups 101: Definitions, what's a startup - - local copy - -
- - Startups 102: Staffing - - local copy - -
- - Startups 103: Raising capital - - local copy - -
- - Startups 104: Urban Legends - - local copy - -
- - Startup postmortems: - local copy - -
- - Startup reading list: - local copy - -
- - Startup wrap up: - Final post on the series, recap of previous articles, corrections and personal evaluation of the experience; - local copy - -
Technical
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- - What’s the difference between llege-level and corporate programming?: one of the answers of the article featured in in Ars Technica, local copy -
- - Deploy Rails (production) on your own server. - -
- - Substraction and the art of code maintenance - -
- - A "sivering" moment – Whatever scares you… About the influence of Derek Sivers - -
- - The path to SJCP 310-065 exam: Some notes and advice about preparing and taking the exam - -
- - The path to SJCP 310-065 exam - Part 2: Follow up on researching sample exam questions from scratch, using Java's labels as an example - -
- - Learning Tail Reversal (exercises, pdf) - -
Certifications
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- Courseira - Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, - Functional Programming Principles in Scala, - local copy - -
- - - Data Science at General Assembly - course, completed on August 2017, - local copy - - Java Standard Edition 6 Programmer, 14h February 2011. Transcript: - JavaSE6-ProgrammerCertifiedProfessionalExamScoreReport.pdf - -
- - Oracle Certified Java Associate, 17th December 2010 (CX-310-019), which is the easiest, entry level exam for the Java ecosystem. - Transcript: JavaSE5-6_Certified_Associate_Exam-Score_Report.pdf, - Certification: oracle_java_cert_se5-6.jpg - -
- - Microsoft Certified Partner, 13th November 2006: Microsoft Certification 70-315, titled: - "Developing and Implementing Web Applications with Microsoft Visual C# .NET and Microsoft Visual Studio .NET". Transcript: - xps, - pdf - -
