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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’v...
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 bi...
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....
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, qu...
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. ...
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 cató...
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 ...
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 r...
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 ...
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 t...
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 m...
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, nomeadame...
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, ...
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 mo...
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 ...
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 run...
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 us...
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 divórc...
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 co...
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 consideri...
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...
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 interest...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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 “engine...
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 ...
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 (...
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...
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 whi...
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. Dep...
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 th...
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-...
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 DVC...
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 ...
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 ...
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 prob...
(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 re...
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...
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 mui...
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...
Estes católicos devem estar doidos
--Webster Cook participou numa missa no campus da universidade no dia 29 de Junho. Depois de receber a hóstia, Cook, que fora à missa com um amigo...
MobileMe and IE7
--And Ben Ward‘s comment: ‘Modern Web Standards’ What utter crap from Apple. A grand, holier-than-thou claim that IE's failure to fully s...
On Stallman and free vs proprietary software
--Yes, I’m getting back to this subject. I’ve already wrote about the piece Stallman wrote on Gates leaving MS and that he shouldn’...
Shared Hosting is not that doomed
--Jacques Chester defends that Shared Hosting is doomed. I actually agree with his points: Manpower for administration server is becoming more expens...
The Pirate Bay Wants to Encrypt the Entire Internet
--Let’s say you want to open a video download from a remote machine. IPETEE would first test whether the remote machine is supporting the crypto tech...
After all, Internet is all read/write
--Brecke showed me this tip on how to edit any website. Just enter this code in your address bar (tested in Firefox and IE7, and by me in Safari 3.1...
The new desktop entertainment system
--The HP TouchSmart IQ500 brings a new(?) interesting concept: a desktop media center touchscreen. I am not a fan of HP’s computers (although I...
Javascript Diff3, merging and Distributed Versioning Control System
--Tony Garnock-Jones presented JavaScript diff3, merging, and DVCS (video) of which you can learn more in his blog post. From the presentation: Ve...
Nasty Adventures with a Desktop, a Macbook and a MyBook
--Last week I installing some OSes to decide which one would stay (in the end it was Windows XP) in my desktop, and I accidently formatted the Storag...
It's not the bars, it's you!
--BBC News published an article by Richard Stallman[1] about Bill Gates leaving MS, but the restricted digital empire of proprietary software and DRM...
HP thinks "Everything As A Service"
--Being less academic by being more academic: I was impressed by the new labs director - Prith Banerjee. One of his key points was that HP research ...
Subam a fasquia
--Right now, in Portugal and in other places like the US, our schools are lowering the bar (making tests easier) to have a higher percentage of stud...
UK government makes API available and will invest in the best ideas
--The UK Government wants to hear your ideas for new products that could improve the way public information is communicated. The Power of Informatio...
Adobe Reader 9 will come with Adobe Air inside
--While I am poking Adobe, I noticed that the new Adobe Reader 9 release will include Adobe AIR. Hmm, does Reader use AIR? or is this yet another a...
Astronomia, Jazz e Física
--Projecto Quark! Mostra as “insuspeitas relações entre a Física e o Jazz” Qual a relação da Física com a música Jazz? E porque é que há tantos fís...
Wasted? Not Me
--Source: Current.com (via andr3) I’ve always been straight-edge, I have never drunk alcohol, smoked or did any kind of drugs (nor even coff...
Scripting Enabled Event
--Scripting Enabled is a conference and hack day in London, England in September 2008. The aim of the conference is to break down the barriers betwe...
Switching languages can also switch personality
--People who are bicultural and speak two languages may unconsciously change their personality when they switch languages, according to a U.S. study....
KungFuPanda!
--KungFu Panga! (trailer) The movie that will make me go to cinema after a long time!
IPTV and the Future
--Acknowledging that the transport medium is important (FTTH as mentioned by Mike Coop earlier will very likely solve the problems associated with th...
Sociedade da Informação coloca novos desafios ao consumidor
--Comércio electrónico, segurança dos dados pessoais, regulação e mecanismos de protecção foram alguns dos temas discutidos na conferência “O Consum...
Symbian Platform opensources
--After some Nokia bashing after the interview where they said OpenSource was not ready for the telco/entreprise business, today it was announced tha...
Bastas de Exames Fáceis!
--O que eu de maneira alguma esperava e, certamente, a tutela também não, era que os próprios alunos adoptassem a última explicação que referi e, mai...
10 new major features in Snow Leopard
--Ten big new features in mac os x snow leopard There aren’t any new features that end-users will see, but for us developers/sysadmins, itR...
Google Reader's favicon behavior explained
--So regarding Google’s new favicon a lot of people noticed that in Firefox3 and Safari, the favicon for Google Reader was changing a lot. Som...
Rails can't get you 25 naked girls, can it?
--We know what they’re doing in there. They’re hacking pythons. It’s barbaric and we won’t leave until the last snake has been saved. You can...
Rethinking the conference
--Dave Winer writes about the need to rethink conferences "Why are you going to that conference?" asks Jack. “Just to hang out with the peop...
Microsoft doing Tai Chi
--Look ay Yahoo today, not only the lost their ‘chi’, it is reacting to outside forces and have no control over their destiny. Some 40 to 50 senior e...
Chyrp
--When it comes to blog engines, everyone thinks about Worpress. I’ve worked with it a few times and it’s nice, but it could be so much s...
Prescrições a fazer efeito
--Associação Académica de Coimbra (AAC) estima que cerca de 2700 estudantes possam vir a ser excluídos da Universidade de Coimbra (UC) no próximo ano...
Dear Vodafone (and others)
--Dear Vodafone ( or maybe someone who works there ) and other Telcos: After proving they are looking up to the web with OpenID, Orange is offering ...
Paul Kim on Software bundles
--Now, there has been some controversy concerning the bundles, boiling down to whether it is a good deal for the developers. After all this, I can’t ...
Versions Review
--Versions is a OS X GUI for Subversion. And I proudly say that is partly work of a Portuguese developer. Versions is very powerful1 and elegant GU...
OpenID and Redirects
--When I moved to this wiki, I had the problem to keep the old links from being broken. I learnt that lesson, and me being a innovative guy (which me...
BuzzNumbers
--Remember that little mashup I released almost an year ago ? Well, I found out that now there is a pro version called BuzzNumbers. This media analyz...
JSRocks (Server-side JavaScript with Python)
--John Resig posted about the State of The Art in terms of embedding javascript in other languages. I was glad to see that there was one Python relat...
Python's evolution visualization
--code_swarm - Python from Michael Ogawa on Vimeo. Great clip showing off Python’s evolution (based on commit information). Really coo...
Regarding new Google's favicon
--You may have noticed that Google has a new favicon, the small icon you see in your browser next to the URL or in your bookmarks list. Some people ...
OpenSource is not read for the Telco Industry
--BusinessWeek published an article about Nokia’s position about OpenSource.. The business world is not leaving all their closed policy (DRM, I...
MTV Youth Trends
--| View | Upload your own (Via OpenGardens) This is a great presentation from MTV where they show a few statistics that prove that young people ar...
Lego Mindstorms NXT
--Last week I borrowed a Lego Mindstorms NXT Educational Set from the Physics Department to use in the last class I’m giving to 13 year old kid...
Nice story about opensource inside Microsoft
--James Governor has a nice post on some stories about OpenSource interop and Standards inside Microsoft.
The line that changed my browsing
--defaults write com.apple.Safari TargetedClicksCreateTabs -bool true If this is an option, why there isn’t a checkbox in the preferences for ...
IronRuby Canvas Silverlight Adapter
--In his TechEd 2008 presentation, John Lam (my favourite Microsoft employee, responsible for IronRuby and OpenSource Ambassador inside Microsoft) de...
Moving to Air
--No, I’m not buying that Macbook Air thingy… (sigh) After some ranting and disillusions about Python GUI‘s, I gave Adobe Air a try...
You can now comment using disqus
--Since I’ve updated my website to a bliki, I’ve missed having comments a lot! It’s no fun to not know what your readers think of y...
Os Social Media em Portugal
--Qual a maior lacuna no panorama dos Social Media portugueses? Paulo Querido: “A falta de participação. A total ausência de informação nos mainst...
Geeks portugueses mais sociais
--Provavelmente foi muita influência da Web 2.0, mas noto que a malta geed de terras lusas anda mais social. Já não somos aqueles tipos com barba gra...
280 Slides
--280 Slides is a web-based Javascript clone of Keynote. I loved the style and this is how simple I want web editors to be. Microsoft, you should tak...
Escolas pouco livres
--Vinha eu da escola básica onde ando a dar aulas todo contente porque vi no boot menu deles o Caixa Mágica (Por acaso para os meus objectivos era me...
Escolas pouco livres
--Vinha eu da escola básica onde ando a dar aulas todo contente porque vi no boot menu deles o Caixa Mágica (Por acaso para os meus objectivos era me...
Cronnix
--In OS X it’s really simple to install an application: you just drag it into your applications folder. However to uninstall it might not be th...
Cronnix
--In OS X it’s really simple to install an application: you just drag it into your applications folder. However to uninstall it might not be th...
OS X 10.5.3
--So 10.5.3 came out and it was announce that it corrects more than 200 bugs. I hope that’s right as it’s sized 489 MB. (That along with ...
OS X 10.5.3
--So 10.5.3 came out and it was announce that it corrects more than 200 bugs. I hope that’s right as it’s sized 489 MB. (That along with ...
Boicote à gasolina???
--Recebo um email (e já marcado como spam) a divulgar um fórum onde se debate e organiza um boicote nacional aos postos BP, Galp e Repsol. Eu até nem...
Boicote à gasolina???
--Recebo um email (e já marcado como spam) a divulgar um fórum onde se debate e organiza um boicote nacional aos postos BP, Galp e Repsol. Eu até nem...
Anxiety App
--I don’t really have complex GTD needs. I just have todo’s and a calendar for the meetings/events I want to attend, so I don’t for...
Anxiety App
--I don’t really have complex GTD needs. I just have todo’s and a calendar for the meetings/events I want to attend, so I don’t for...
Governo 2.0
--Um pouco na onda do artigo do Paulo Querido sobre o facto de a web social ser menosprezada nas campanhas políticas cá em Portugal1 (ao contrário do...
Governo 2.0
--Um pouco na onda do artigo do Paulo Querido sobre o facto de a web social ser menosprezada nas campanhas políticas cá em Portugal1 (ao contrário do...
Teaching programming to kids
--Today I have my first programming class to 8th grade students from the school I attended when I was their age. I believe that is the right time to ...
Dropipe
--Dropipe is a Mac OS droplet to where you can drag files to upload to a TarPipe workflow. Just open the DMG and drag it to your application folder (...
SuperDuperPortugueseTechPeoplePlanet
--Há algum tempo andava-se com as guerras dos planetas, sobretudo Prt.sc versus Planet Geek, que nunca me agradou e nunca participei nela. No entant...
Barcamp FCT 2008
--Depois de duas edições do BarcampPT em Coimbra, o Moreno e o Rico decidiram organizar outro Barcamp em Lisboa. BarcampFCT: May, 24, at the Lisboa...
Youtube oEmbed API
--Everyday we approach more and more the Semantic web, and one of the major steps we are giving is adopting standards. One of them is oEmbed that all...
Dreamhost
--Dreamhost is one of the most well-known hosting companies around the world. And it happens to be the one where this website is hosted (along with a...
Me Goes Wiki!
--The background Over my internet years (more than 8 now) I’ve always kept a online presence. It started as a personal webpage, and then evol...
Bloc Party - Banquet
--Suggestion by BB. Note: I’m not posting anymore because of a) lack of time (see my flickr for the why) and b) i’m moving to a new bl...
TarPipe Python API
--For those of you who don’t know TarPipe, it is a web application that makes it easier to create your workflows on the web. This workflow ab...
Clã @ Queima das Fitas 2008
--A frequência aqui do blog reduziu drasticamente. O principal factor é o projecto de multimédia, em que decidimos fazer alguma cois...
Python Golf Shirt
--This shirt explains it all. (Via Paulo Abreu)
Web-based GTA
--I’ve been reading tons of reactions to the launch of the latest best-game-ever GTA IV. I liked Penny Arcade’s the most. And real geeks ...
Some changes in the Microblogging ecosystem
--So Twitter is leaving Rails and I bet Rails programmers are not happy with this. Their #1 success application at a large scale is leaving the build...
Este blog tem censura!
--Ou como outros o dizem mais suavemente, este blog tem os comentários moderados. Ao contrário do que alguém comentou, isto aqui n...
PopUp! e o Futuro da Web
--Para quem não sabe, está a decorrer o PopUp, um evento “espontâneo” com pipocas, música, xboxs e passatempos para a...
Momento WTF!?! da semana
--A junta de freguesia da Ericeira foi multada em sete mil euros utilizar óleos reciclados para mover os carros do lixo, em vez de comprar combu...
4 hours, 3 OSes
--I feel pity for this desktop of mine. It has suffered a lot when it comes to OSes. So I had installed Mac OS x86 perfectly working, but I wanted to...
Links of the week
--How to be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary by Robert L Read, is a wonderful short book every programmer should read. You&...
25 de Abril e a liberdade...
--Oiço pela blogosfera, e não só, que os jovens não ligam nada ao 25 de Abril, que não dão importância devida a liberdade, etc... Sinceram...
Remote Virtualization
--I now have 3 virtual machines on my Macbook. Ubuntu, XP and Vista. Now that I got Matlab for UNIX, I almost don’t use them any more, only for...
Take Off 2008
--Correu bem! Aprendemos com algumas coisas do ano passado, e voltámos a aprender também este ano para aplicar no próximo. Mas correu ...
Twitter, entreprise edition
--So Twitter is the internet application of the moment. The so called IRC of the web 2.0 has got the internet junkies Geeks 2.0 and also coming to re...
A treat for those Java Clones
--Puppets doing JRuby
Physics Simulation Games
--I grew up more a less at the same time as Nintendo’s GameBoy, so computer games were not that awkward to me. The first game that I was really...
Why do I keep on using Python...
--I sincerely believe Dynamic Languages are the future. Once people start learning these languages, they’ll hardly go back. I know a lot of guy...
I'll admit it!
--I am a Python addicted :/ alcides$ history | awk '{print $2}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head 125 cd 100 python 78 ls 33 clear; 23 ssh ...
Jet - Rip it Up
--Jet – Rip it Up
MSN rant
--From time to time I freak out about Windows Live Messenger also known as MSN Messenger. First is one centralized system. Everything depends on Micr...
Tecnonov 2008
--O dia de ontem foi passado na Fnac a assistir ao evento Tecnonov. Ainda não tinha escrito nada, pois estava a espera de outras reacçõ...
1984
--Alcides Fonseca, April 2nd, 2008 A while ago I read Animal Farm (O Triunfo dos Porcos) and I really liked! A tiny book and a really ...
A little applescript snippet
--In the last days I found myself doing over and over the same combo: rating a music 5 starts in iTunes and then loving it in Last.fm, so as any Soft...
Dynamic Language Hosting
--On my talk at TechDays2008, I noticed the audience was looking more to integrate IronPython/IronRuby on their existing C# apps, than using it as a ...
GreenDay - Minority
--GreenDay – Minority
WiMax in India?
--First the Australian WiMax pioneer says it’s a disaster and now Tata Communications announce they're rolling out contrywide WiMax… I...
Urls vs Search Engines
--When everybody talks about URLs and how you can associate all your stuff to a personal URL (through OpenID, microformats, etc…), it looks lik...
The best application for programmers!
--After developing software for some time now, I feel like I should mention the software that most helped me until now. This is just a personal opini...
Geekish Links
--Yahoo has lanched Fire Eagle, a way of providing your location to several services. Good news to Python Hackers, Steve Marshall has published his b...
OPM - Heaven is a Halfpipe
--OPM – Heaven is a Halfpipe
Me and git I
--VCS are a must for my projects. I need to be able to get old versions or have a place where I can easily sync the project with some friends. Until ...
One and a half Mac
--In this holidays I’ve spend some time hacking my OS setup. My Windows XP install had more than two years. And it was still solid without viru...
Professores vs Alunos
--Notícia de abertura do Jornal da Noite da TVI: E ainda me perguntam porque é que não tenho esperança neste país… ...
The White Ninja and Free Health Care
--One of the comics I read daily, this time mocking with USA‘s weird paid health care. If you are an American, please come and visit Portugal...
Linguagens Dinamicas em .NET (IronPython e IronRuby) @ TechDays2008
--| View | Upload your own Quinta feira fiz a minha apresentaçãozinha no TechDays. Lá tentei convencer a audiência das vantagen...
TechDays 2008
--Levantar-me as 6 da manhã não foi tão doloroso como pensava. Até porque acordei as 5. Eu e os meus quatro acompanhantes (mais s...
Palmas a Nuno Crato
--A televisão portuguesa começa a o dia com os morning talk shows, como a praça da alegria e companhia, depois o jornal, depois repete...
Adobe opening up the flash source format
--Until now, all flash files were save in a binary .fla file. Seems like CS4 will bring a new format .xfl that is a zip file with all the components ...
Adobe opening up the flash source format
--Until now, all flash files were save in a binary .fla file. Seems like CS4 will bring a new format .xfl that is a zip file with all the components ...
Adobe opening up the flash source format
--Until now, all flash files were save in a binary .fla file. Seems like CS4 will bring a new format .xfl that is a zip file with all the components ...
Chris Mills on Mobile Web Development
--Opera’s Chris Mills writes a great article titled Coding for the mobile web which I heavily recommend for any of you who is interested in dev...
The Mars Volta - Day of the Baphomets
--An excelent mixture of the Mars Volta with Fantasia’s Bald Mountain sequence.
Recent releases
--Let’s start by big G, they’ve released the Google Contacts API. They’re second to Microsoft who have already did the same, in ord...
Mix08 keynote feedback
--First of all, it 1 was an excellent keynote! Not that b.o.r.i.n.g keynote I’ve seen in TechEd Barcelona (Somasegar simply doesn’t have ...
Yellow Car!
--Oh boy! This brings back some memories of last year’s bus rides…
Thoughts about IE8
--Well, tomorrow in MIX08 keynote, Dean is going to talk about IE8 and even show it (rumors say at this time there is already a private beta program ...
Até um dia, Digital
--Há um ano, o Público mudou de cara, todo nova onda e tal, com blogs convidados, coisas XPTOs e uma coisa que eu gostei bastante de recebe...
Template language for Django
--That’s true, I’m finally learning Django. Since I haven’t had no big website until now, I’ve been using my microwebframewor...
The YouTube Hacker Star
--and more: SMSing all the girls in a bar, Some innofensive pranks in work, Some bridging hacking, Some trainplaying, Yet another trainplaying, T...
Random links
--Community & Customer Service – The video of an interesting talk with Matt Mullenweg from Wordpress, Gina Bianchini from Ning, Tara Hunt f...
Sum 41 - What we're all about
--That’s what we’re living for… Oh, and if you’re wondering what the heck is spidey doing there, this is from the SpiderMa...
With great power comes greater responsability
--This is, when you use cool stuff like AJAX, that empowers your website, you should take into consideration all the problems that it might cause, sp...
Weekend Lost News
--I spend this weekend lost in Zambujeira do Mar in the MSP Team Building event. There were a few talks given by some folks at Microsoft, CanalUp, So...
Independent Games @ GDC
--Those who can read XFN already know I have a crush on Leah Culver, but there is one cute geek girl coming into my life: It’s just too bad she...
XNA++
--I must say I love XNA! I like making games. I do not like C++ low-level programming. When I was (am?) a kid, I did some stupid games with Game Make...
Maximum the Hormone - Zetsubou Billy
--Since this one is no longer available (if anyone has it, please tell me!) I reposted the original music video to prove Tokyo Hotel is for pussies...
Me @ TechDays
--Para quem não conhece o TechDays, é o maior evento da Microsoft a nível nacional. Para além do lançamento do Windows Serve...
Take Off, take 2
--Para quem não conhece o Take Off, é um evento que organizei o ano passado em conjunto com o Sérgio. Podem ler aqui o meu resumo para...
Ornatos Violeta - Ouvi Dizer
--Ornatos Violeta – Ouvi Dizer Ps: quem se lembra daquele logo da TVI?
Like it? Tip it!
--In the US and some other countries, tipping is almost mandatory and represents the major income for waiters and several other professions. If it wo...
SyncMate workaround
--Whenever I connect my WM6.1 HTC TyTN to my Mac, SyncMate just goes spinning his beachball without stopping… I really wanted to sync my PDA wi...
Mestrado em Ecologia
--Ao contrário de certos novos pseudo-cursos, vejo que a minha faculdade anda a esmerar-se um pouco. Vai abrir agora uma Licenciatura e Mestrado...
David Fonseca - Superstars II
--I couldn’t decide between this song and The 80ies! They’re both awesome and I picked this one because of the video. If this songs wer...
Linguagem para caloiros
--Ou, mais pomposamente, como o Nuno escreve: Primeiro contacto com programação por parte dos alunos do ensino superior. Ele defende os Has...
Jumper
--Alcides Fonseca, February 18th, 2008 Jumper Rating: 4 out of 5 "Special Effects only. Story sucks." was what I heard from a frie...
Top Audax
--Voltando ao concurso Audax, há uma coisa que o destingue relativamente aos concursos dos outros canais. Enquanto por norma esses têm um j...
The Story of Stuff
--Although I don’t agree with all she says (she’s a bit extreme in some points) the general idea is true and I guess people should see th...
Luscious Jackson - Come Back Down to Earth
--Down to Earth from Titan A.E. OST, one of my favorite movies!
Openvatar, the new kid in the block.
--We have old Gravatar, hAvatar, pAvatar (discussed here) and now we have Openvatar. This last one is based on OpenID, but uses email as the identif...
Audax 01
--Interessado em inovação e empreendedorismo, não pude escapar à primeira edição do Audax na rtp2. Não gostei muit...
Second Term Resolutions
--I don’t care much about the end of the fiscal year (or the beginning of a new one) since nothing changes in my daily life. There is however b...
GMail delays...
--A few months ago I moved to GMail and Google Reader for my main information needs: email and RSS feeds. I now have 3 computers (windows desktop, ma...
Silverlight Mobile
--John Gruber shared his thoughts on why Apple doesn’t want Flash on the iPhone and I believe that this should be reason for Microsoft to get S...
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Bem vindo à rede social do Tecnonov, espero ver-te no Tecnonov 2008 tal como estiveste no anterior :-)