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“Client” the specie who rules the earth

One thing that i always heard about and read through the Internet, was that dealing with some customers isn’t an easy task. I don’t have much experience in that matter but slowly I’m starting to believe in that. Recently I took some time to read a bunch of quotes from the blog “Clients from hell” […]

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The King’s Speech

Some time ago i wrote about a guy who showed up in a TV Show talking about a new mentality that is needed here in Portugal. Today I’m gonna return to that subject and post here one video (yes one more, this is starting to look like a video channel) of his speech at TEDx […]

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Life in a Day

Yesterday i read about one fascinating project, sponsored by youtube, called “Life in a Day“, where people all over the world were invited to record their daily live and share it. As a result of this experiment, we have one 90 minute movie that show’s us how much distinct life can be, based only on […]

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Coimbra on the move

These are difficult times for every student in Portugal, the amount of jobs available, for those who are finishing their studies in the next few years, is limited and in some areas rare is the appropriate word. So most of the graduating students already are looking for opportunities, not in our country but in many […]

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“Now I Know”

The Internet is full of contents about entrepreneurship like blog articles, ebooks, interviews, videos, podcasts etc. But the vast majority of that content is usually long and boring, most of the time i can’t consume it to the end or i don’t even watch because of its length. There are for sure quality content around […]

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To Codebits here i go…

That’s right folks, just look at that beautiful message at the screenshot. I’m sure that the most famous 800 people tech event in the country will be an amazing weekend, with lots of interesting talks, people and some competitions that will push the participants to the limit. If in the next few weeks, some nice […]

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Show what you can do

Well, this time i bring a video from a TV discussion (on the Portuguese show “Prós e Contras”) where this young man, talks about a new mentality that is needed for the young men and women that finish their college degree and are about to enter the job market. I was surprised because it isn’t […]

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Generators, Decorators and Metaclasses

For some time now, I’ve been trying to improve my python skills and learn a little bit more deeply the how the language works. The objective of this quest is to write more efficient and structured code, because it seems to me that I’m not using the full potential of this programing language. Yesterday i […]

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Just try a diferent approach

Nowadays it isn’t easy to get a job here in Portugal, most students stay unemployed for a while when they graduate from college. Most of them simply send curriculum’s to some companies/employers and just wait for someone who needs to approach them. I only wrote this article to show my point of view, the world […]

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Simple JSON Parser for Python

Some time ago i started to follow a Blog that weekly proposes some programming exercices and i solved one of their problems (an old one, from 2009) . So today i’m posting here my solution for the problem of this week. Basically they ask us to write a JSON parser in our favorite computer language, […]