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Handivi
Handivi In the Portuguese Web scene there were two projects that caught my eye. The first one is Tarpipe and the second one is Handivi. I’ve been in touch with the 7syntax team and I was waiting the first alpha preview. Until that moment I...
Microsoft, two steps forward, one step back
So Microsoft went back and announce Standards Mode would be the default one in the upcoming IE8, but with the second beta, things have changed a bit. For Intranet websites, IE8 will still be using the IE7 mode. It was the pressure from their big ...
OpenSource Managing tips
Take some time to explain how in the hell a newbie is supposed to get this project up and going so they can starting looking around to contribute. If I look up after checking out the source and the clock’s little hand has moved while trying to f...
Direitos dos consumidores
Deparei-me hoje com um post do Michael Foord sobre a saga que ele teve com a empresa Dabs.com por causa de um portátil com uma drive defeituosa, que recusaram reparar 2 ou 3 dias depois do fim da garantia e diziam que foi o utilizador o autor do d...
Queria ser um miudo de 13 anos
Pode ser para alunos do 3º Ciclo, mas eu adorava estar presente em A Ciência não morde, quer pelos nomes no cartaz, quer pelos temas apresentados. Via Que Treta!
Cartoon Polémico
Estava a dar uma olhadela pelo Expresso quando vi estas reacções todas em relação a um cartoon da semana anterior. Como eu acho que estes católicos extremistas são um bocadinho parvos, fui ver qual era o cartoon que estava a gerar tanto desco...
Music Media - are physical formats dieing?
I guess that there are plenty of ways I could use to talk about this, and a lot of things I could say about it. So, since this comes as a reflection of two things that happened during my vacations, I'll just tell you about those two, talk only a l...
Backup scenario at 2008-08-28
Hardware: Desktop (Running Windows XP) Macbook (Mac OS X) HTC TyTN MyBook Network Storage 500G Shared Hosting in Dreamhost (not my hardware, but it’s available storage) Projects Being school or work related, I have them in a SVN reposit...
SyncToy
SyncToy is a nice Microsoft Powertoy for Windows XP that allows you to have pair of folders sync’d. It rocks as a backup solution!
Mousers vs Keyboardists
The geek web trembled with the announcement of Ubiquity, the QuickSilver for the web. Well, it happens that I am not a fan of that application. I rarely use Spotlight to open my apps (which is fine for me). Why? Because I’m a Mouser, I am mo...
IE8 Beta2 out
And IE8 beta2 is out I’m a critic of IE7 and now IE8’s UI layout, because it steals the worst parts of the new Vista organization, and the Vista organization is just not that good. (Short aside on the Vista organization if you missed it: menus a...
WebcamInput
WebcamInput This project aims to be a easy-to-include unobtrusive code to transform a input type=file into a webcam input. People can then click to get a picture, and upload it. I am developing this in order to scan some book covers easily, but ...
Real-Time Web Collaboration Tool
My master’s thesis project was a web collaboration tool that I felt people needed to explore ideas, resolve issues, track progress, and be more productive. Availability, scalability and highly asynchronous communication were a priority, en...
Got myself an Eee PC 701
I'm back from my vacations, and there's lots of stuff I want (and will) blog about. But this one had to be now: I got myself a new Eee PC! Well, as a matter of fact both me and Paula wanted an Eee PC, so this one is from and for us both (even if t...
O Quarto Operador Móvel
Anacom já abriu concurso para o quarto operador móvel Nos termos definidos pelo regulador, as entidades que já detenham licenças móveis, nomeadamente a TMN, a Vodafone e a Optimus não podem concorrer a esta licença. Sim, esperemos que não aconte...
BarcampPT2008
O Barcamp Portugal nasceu em 2006 e pretende ser um ponto de encontro de gente que se junta para falar nos mais variados temas que, normalmente, gravitam em torno de Inovação, Empreendorismo e Web. Depois da fantástica edição do ano passado, nã...
Invest in side projects
Side projects are less masturbatory than reading RSS, often more useful than MobileMe, more educational than the comments on Reddit, and usually more fun than listening to keynotes. You should really REALLY read this! Or watch the video
My temporary solution to the twitter pilgrinage
After Twitter loosing the SMS service in Portugal, most of the people have migrated to jaiku (that has sms’s) or friendfeed. What to do when my contacts are so spread apart? iGoogle, add widgets for each of the service I’m in and what...
Plastic SCM
Today I came across Plastic SCM which I believe it might be Distributed VCS solution for the Enterprise. Although it’s written in C#, it runs in Windows, Linux, Mac and Solaris (thanks to the mono project) but lacks the server version and G...
SecondLife rolls out Mono-powered servers
LindenLabs have started to roll out the Mono-powered simulation servers This means we’re one step closer (really really closer!) to start using IronPython and IronRuby in the Second Life virtual world.
Veto à nova lei do divórcio
O Presidente da República, Cavaco Silva, devolveu hoje à Assembleia da República, sem promulgação, o diploma que altera o regime jurídico do divórcio, utilizando o chamado 'veto político'.De acordo com o site do chefe do Estado, "o Presidente da R...
Legal age for drinking
College presidents from about 100 of the nation's best-known universities, including Duke, Dartmouth and Ohio State, are calling on lawmakers to consider lowering the drinking age from 21 to 18, saying current laws actually encourage dangerous bin...
Python Universal GUI revisited
Do you remember my post about the need for a Python Universal GUI? There are a lot of solutions for developing Python GUI, but if you are considering multi-platform there isn’t a clear choice. Also, I haven’t find any library that make...
MarcoPolo
If you have a Mac laptop, this is one of the first things you should install. MarcoPolo can detect your location through several factors (wifi, usb, bluetooth, gps, monitors, ambient light, ip, bonjour, etc…) and even from combinations. It t...
OpenCellID
Fireeagle is now public, but I have had an account for a while now. The idea of managing my location around a few web services was pretty interesting, but in order to manage something, you have to have it. So how could I automatically update my ...
How to use your blackberry as a modem in Debian
[ATENTION: this blog post was updated!]After aquiring a BlackBerry cellphone, I wanted to use it as a modem for my laptop, running Debian. I still didn't figure how to use it via bluetooth, but here's how to do it via USB:I recommend you read all ...
Mono isn't just for apes
I think there are three major types of critics of Mono in the Open Source community. Those who think Microsoft pays Novell for developing Mono to take over the world, those who think Mono is a project that will face patent problems in the future ...
A left-side double-click closer
Being a left-side double-click closer was one of the things that made me adjust to Aqua when I switched to the mac. And that influenced the design of the upcoming PalcoDesktop.
CVs europeus e outras formatações
Porque antes, quando eu tinha uma pilha de cv’s para analisar, eu não procurava só as habilitações/cursos de cada candidato. Eu procurava elementos diferenciadores, que fizessem com que algumas pessoas se distinguissem - havia cv’s muito bem escri...
Is Microsoft trying to kill Apache
Microsoft are now free to take Apache source code and proceed to amend, tweak or customise it to the point of what Bruce Perens has called “engineered incompatibility” At that point Microsoft could repeat the successful disaster of bundling Inter...
Japan as the Example for the Future
I’ve lost my faith in TechCrunch a while ago, but today I’ve found an interesting article on why Japan can be considered an example of what’s coming next in the rest of the world or not. The availability of cutting-edge phones ...
API library in a minute
Mason Browne just released Bricklayer, a simple way of creating your ruby library for a REST webservice. It walks you through the twitter example ( Twitter is the Hello World of REST APIs!) and you get 22 lines of a complete Twitter API. I’...
Invoy
Now that I’ve founded a company, one thing that we are concerning about is a invoice software. We are right now analyzing a few options. One of them is Invoy, a simple Invoice Software for Mac. I’ve been in touch with the Empty Factor...
Goodreads to Shelfari
I’ve never found a good movie-manager, that’s why I started with Movio, but as for books there are a few good options: LibraryThing which lacked a good design (yes, I do care about that), GoodReads and Shelfari. The last two were pret...
Vacations
I'm having a half a month vacations, and the plans were simply to rest. Went from Lisbon to Coimbra, and from there to Lamego, to show the city to Paula. We've seen some things already, like the castle, the now restaurated theatre (where we went t...
Opera Mini 4.1 beta
Opera Mini is already aiming for its next release - 4.1 - and its beta is already out. If you follow this blog you know that I'm an user and fan of Opera Mini, but I'm still using Opera Mini 3, since Opera Mini 4 doesn't have an option of having t...
Ciganos, elementos da sociedade ou parasitas
Estiveram presentes nos desacatos da Quinta da Fonte, com direito a tiroteio à moda do Iraque, em plena rua, com transmissão televisiva e tudo. Depois, como pessoas de bem, acamparam às portas da Câmara de Loures a reivindicar casas novas (?!), qu...
Don't dumb down museums
We should have museums about science and technology because those subjects are important, not so we can sell crap in the museum shop or increase the Sats results. Read Tom Morris on Museums
Two Action Trailers
And both featuring Jason Statham: Transporter3 Death Race Via Miss Geeky
Python-bits
Today, I bring you three interesting resources from the Python World. The first one is a different approach to SQL in Python, using decorators. DB-agnostic (based on python db api 2.0), pySimpleDb makes it almost fun to use SQL in Python, object-o...
Offline Commits in SVN
James Bennett wrote an interesting article called Let’s talk about DVCS I agree 100% with him. People are all migrating to git and other DVCSs, but that approach is not the better for everyone. Myself, I like to have a central repository to...
PushTheWebUp
Friends don’t let friends run old browsers! That’s the spirit of the PushUpTheWeb, a movement for people to include a small javascript code that alerts the user when he’s not using the latest version of his browser. I’ll definit...
Document-centric GUI
Federico Mena-Quintero has given an interesting presentation on a Document-centric GUI for Gnome. From my experience with non-tech people, I must agree with him that people waste too much time looking for their documents. Although I agree that a ...
Busy Times
My "busy times" continue, and I don't expect to recover from my "blog posts scarcity" in the next following months: I'll have some vacations next month, but I intend to use those days to rest, and avoid using a computer... Of course, you can keep ...
comparação entre isps
Estou quase a mudar de casa e está na altura de decidir o ISP a usar. Nos últimos 5 anos tenho sido Cliente SAPO ADSL com os quais tive vários problemas a nível de facturação (marcavam-me uns picos de tráfego que era impossível com a minha largura...
Welcome to Equal Dreams, the fair music market
Equal Dreams is a platform which enables direct sales of digital music from right holders to consumers as well as easy communication and co-operation between artists and audience. Sales proceeds can be automatically distributed to right holders (m...
(Iron)Python for Executives
The main fears managers have around Python are: Risk, Recruiting, Performance and Immaturity. At this stage I can say we have overcome all these reservations. Recruiting - It turns out that smart and innovative people are attracted by Python .Inn...
JeKnowledge
JeKnowledge é uma Júnior Empresa da Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologias da Universidade de Coimbra, da qual faço parte e assumo o cargo de Director de Projecto. História Há algum tempo o Rafael Jegundo convidou-me para este projecto que estava a...
Centro de Partilha de Trabalhos Online
Já várias pessoas me disseram para fazer um Ninjas a nível nacional. Pessoalmente nunca achei que seria boa ideia, porque estes projectos vivem muito da comunidade envolvida. E a nível local seria mais fácil. O que poderia ser comum a várias unive...
SVN update finder button
What? It’s the one before tm(Open In TextMate) As I stated in my Versions.app review, I believe VCS should adapt to your workflow, and not otherwise. I find myself doing so many SVN updates, that I even find it too painful to use the exce...