Recently i realized that the system that i used to blog wasn’t the most appropriate and that was preventing me from writing. To publish an article, i needed to go through too many steps (most of them to make the content look the way i wanted) and the maintenance of the system didn’t worth the […]
Author: Gonçalo Valério
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First experience with MOOC
The year of 2012 for the Internet was definitely the year of the “massive open online courses” with some startups of online education stepping up to the big stage (Coursera, Udacity, etc) and some well know names coming up with their own initiatives (MIT, Harvard and Berkeley at Edx). So in the beginning of this […]
This time you’ll have to leave
It’s time to pack my feed list and move away from Google reader, something that I had already tried and failed before, because this time the service will be shutdown by Google on the first day of July 2013. The Internet is (mostly the tech community) in tumult, with every major tech news site writting […]
Generally when I have to develop a website or web application, I use technologies and frameworks that I am used to work with and I have more than basic knowledge about them, in most of the cases it turn out to be django and in some of them I also use node.js. With these two […]
Bombermine
Have you ever played “bomberman”? Yesterday I found that some guys made the classic even better. Just go to bombermine.com and you will be able to play the game in a huge scenario against hundreds of other people in a massive multi-player game. But the best part is that you won’t need to install anything […]
Tour of the International Space Station
I already reshared this post on Google+ but i think the video is just too awesome to not publish here in the blog too. So here it is, a twenty minute tour of the International Space Station:
This year’s project
Another year and another codebits edition has come and gone. This time i had to enter the 48h programming competition. So with André Gonçalves and some help of Carlos Santos, we tried to develop a new service that would help the users of MEO Kanal. The description of the service was the following: Basically this […]
Here i go again
Just take a look on what arrived to my mail box yesterday morning: Like last year (and a little bit sooner this year) i had the privilege of being accepted for the biggest technology event here in Portugal. It will take place in Lisbon in the middle of November and i will be there, participating […]
… you will find the atlantic pearl also known as “Madeira island“. I spent this summer there and is always good to return to that paradise, where few kilometers separate the 20ºC waters (sometimes even more) of sea from the highest mountains with 1500+ meters. Since most of you never had the chance to visit […]
Using less browser toolbars
One thing that I don’t like is having a big chunk of my screen area wasted with browser’s toolbars. Generally, i try to remove all of them, leaving behind only the minimum required to browse the web, this way I’m able to maximize the area used for what really matters. Recently i start using one […]