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Archive for October, 2007
Pensamento do dia
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007Party Time! Coffeepaste is 1 year old (CANCELED)
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007Oh well.. the party was cancelled. I won’t go into the details. But the blog and the projects continue. And we will celebrate! 
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Coffeepaste is a blog aiming to divulge work and training opportunities for the performing arts professionals. It was started by a couple of friends of mine, Carlos and Rita one year ago. I was invited to participate a while ago, and have been doing so with enthusiasm. We have an exciting project for the near future, involving the “upgrade” of the blog. We’re very happy that the blog is getting around 500 visits a day. That means this blog was needed, and gives us even more energy to work on it. In the meantime, if you’re around Lisbon, come and celebrate with us!
Weekend Highlight
Monday, October 29th, 2007Here’s one of my weekend highlights. A Mixed Doubles Tennis Match featuring:
- Steffi Graf (My all time favourite)
- Justine Henin (WTA word’s number 1)
- Andre Agassi (My all time favourite)
- Goran Ivanisevic
How lucky was I?
Sapo CodeBits – Two weeks away
Monday, October 29th, 2007
I’m really looking forward to this event. Many fine speakers, events, and music.
This is another initiative by the guys who brought you SHiFT last year. Way to go!
Getting Real – Free online
Thursday, October 25th, 2007When Getting Real – 37 Signals’ bible to developing Web applications in a quick, practical, non bureaucratic manner – was released, I bought it immediately. It’s filled with great insights, and I learned a lot. Now that I’m actually building a Ruby on Rails Web application from scratch (more on this soon), I am re-reading it, and making sure I follow much of the advice. There’s now a free online version available, if you can’t afford the $19.
Seth Godin had this to say about it:
“Every once in a while, a book comes out of left field that changes just about everything. This is one of those books. Ignore it at your peril.”
Tomorrow
Friday, October 19th, 2007The sun will come out, tomorrow
Bet your bottom dolar that tomorrow, there’ll be sun
Just thinking about, tomorrow
Clears away the cobwebs and the sorrow,
Til there’s none.
When im stuck with the day, thats grey, and lonely,
i Just stick out my chin and grin and say,
The sun will come out, tomorrow
So you gotta hang on til tomorrow,
Come what may,
Tomorrow, tomorrow, I love ya, tomorrow
You’re always a day away
The sun’ll come out, tomorrow,
So you gotta hang on til tomorrow,
Come what may,
Tomorrow, tomorrow, i luv ya tomorrow,
You’re always a day away,
Tomorrow, tomorrow, I luv ya tomorrow,
You’re always a day away.
Tomorrow, tomorrow, I luv ya tomorrow,
You’re always a day-a-way!!!
Ruby on Rails book FREE to Download
Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
What an offer! Sitepoint is giving away the download version of the book “Build Your Own Ruby on Rails Applications“, by Patrick Lenz.
I bought it a while ago and was worth it. Being free, there’s no discusssion even.. go to sitepoint and download it now! And hurry, the offer is time limited (44 days left, at the time of this post)
Madonna dá tampa à Indústria Discográfica
Friday, October 12th, 2007Cada vez mais músicos estão a procurar alternativas para parte ou a totalidade das suas carreiras discográficas.
Ultimamente, os Oasis, Jamiroquai e Nine Inch Nails anunciaram o seu afastamento da indústria discográfica. E não são bandas quaisquer.
Agora é a vez de Madonna. Notícias avançam que a cantora fez o mesmo, tendo assinado um contrato com a empresa de promoção de concertos Live Nation para o lançamento de 3 álbuns, a promoção das respectivas tournées, e a venda de merchandising.
Este negócio é diferente do levado a cabo pelos Nine Inch Nails, pelo que Madonna não vai vender os seus álbuns directamente ao público.
Mas esta acção mostra que mesmo para um grupo de alcance mundial, uma companhia discográfica já não é necessária, nestes dias de downloads digitais e de partilha P2P.
Não são certamente boas notícias para uma indústria que acordou tardiamente para esta questão e que, mesmo depois de acordar, está a dar passos manifestamente mais lentos do que a alucinante velocidade em que evoluem as tecnologias. É o peso de um passado de monopólio. Só que os sinais estão aí há já algum tempo. É preciso mudar mesmo! Não apenas falar disso.
É que, se Madonna muda, quantos artistas se seguirão?
[artigo original da TechCrunch, de onde este post foi (livremente) adaptado]
Adegga launched!
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
Well, it’s official. Adegga – Social Wine Discovery launched today. Congratulations to André on a great project. More on Adegga when my cellar is full
What is Adegga?
Monday, October 8th, 2007Well, let me direct you to the explanation provided by the founder himself, my friend André Ribeirinho:
“Adegga is an online service that helps you discover and choose wine by sharing your opinions with people you trust.
Adegga lets you build a personalized Watchlist so that you can keep track of what people on your list are choosing and tasting. You can add friends, wine bloggers, producer and just about anyone else. You can also add wine producers and wine shops to your personalized Watchlist so that you keep track of when a producer releases a new wine or a wine shop makes a promotion.
Adegga also helps you organize your wines. You can keep track of wines you taste, make a wishlist or organize your home cellar.”
Here’s the rest of his post about this, and here’s the Adegga blog.
I was about to say “wine goes social”. But wine has always been a social act, for those of us who appreciate it. So now it’s gone Web2.0 It is launching soon… I am taking a tour, and will report soon. In the meantime, won’t someone please pour me a glass?