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RubyConf Portugal
In the beginning of last week, during the days 13 and 14, I and some guys from Whitesmith went to Braga for the first RubyConf Portugal. I’m not a huge fan of Ruby but since i work with it from time to time, i took the chance to learn a little bit more about it…
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On buying new hardware
When I was buying my laptop some years ago, I wished I knew of a website with a database of hardware that works well with free software. Specially with any operating system based on Linux, so I wouldn’t get into too much trouble to get everything working. Instead I ended up purchasing a machine that…
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The Web We Lost
The Web We Lost, a two years old post with a message that still stands. For those who have an hour to spare, some good points are addressed in the video and in the Q&A afterwards.
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“Nothing to hide” is not a good argument
When talking about privacy and online surveillance (a topic that has been in the spotlight over the last year) with friends, colleagues and people that haven’t given much thought about these issues, the most common answer i hear is (as you’ve already guessed) “I’ve nothing to hide”, which is fallacious argument. Arguing with someone that…
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The Ocean Cleanup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IjaZ2g-21E More info: http://www.theoceancleanup.com/
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Enigmail, passphrase issue
This is a short post where I try to explain the steps i followed to fix the behavior of Enigmail on my machine. In the last few weeks i wasn’t able to use any signing and encryption capabilities on my emails due to a problem that showed an unclear error message. I don’t remember the…
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Moving to Python 3
A week ago the support period for the last version of Python 2 was extended by 5 years (from 2015 to 2020) and this event just ignited once again the discussion about the fragmentation in the python ecosystem. Some have the opinion that version 2 should have a 2.8 release while others keep saying that…
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Codebits 2014
The 3 days passed so fast that i got the sensation that the event took place in only one day. The only regret I felt in this year’s event was related with the fact that our team was unable to get the project ready for the presentation in 48h. We were developing a service that…
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My First Firefox OS App
Recently, I’ve started digging into Mozilla technologies just for curiosity. One of the things that intrigued me more was the concept of the Firefox OS. I wondered how we could make a phone work mainly with web technologies and how the development process works for this kind of operating system. While i was reading documentation…
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Open to new project ideas
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Everything is a Remix, Case Study
http://vimeo.com/81745843 Following the other two posts (here and here) containing the 4 episodes of this great web series, i just had to share this video with a small case study about the iPhone.
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Django Resources
As I said in earlier posts in this blog, when i build websites or webapps where there are no technology impositions, i usually choose to do it in Python and in most of the cases, that’s the equivalent to say i choose to do it in Django. Over the last year, since i started using…
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Cheap, Safe and Friendly
As a Portuguese citizen, after i come across an article named “Top 15 Cheap, Safe and Friendly Countries” and saw my country in this list, i have to leave here my two cents about the subject. I’m not gonna evaluate or judge the process and the origin of the data that led the author to…
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Improving your online privacy
Following this PRISM thing that’s going on for several weeks now, Internet privacy become a hot topic with extensive discussions and vast amounts of content being written about it (a good thing from my perspective). In this post I will try to sum some tips to improve your privacy and safety while surfing the web.…
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Starting out with Meteor.js
For some time now, I’ve this urge to try to build something using meteor.js just for test purposes and to check what i can do with this framework that everybody is talking and writing about. So a few days ago i decided to give it a go, i installed meteor and I have put everything…