July 2011
1 post
This new iPhone app is awesome.
March 2011
2 posts
Pensamento do dia
Como ja dizia o poeta “a minha segurança eu mesmo faço”
Academic people really know how to slow things down.
February 2011
5 posts
Long project is loooooong
Long day is looooong…
Bike sheds all over the place. Life feel like a /b/ post…
Drunk girls like to file complaints
“Anemokol é o segredo.”
January 2010
2 posts
“When Richard Stallman makes a sudo command, he loses permissions”
– http://www.stallmanfacts.com
Star 1.69
Let’s say you have an app with a limited free version and 1.69% of your users buy a premium account. What does it mean?
December 2009
2 posts
Why?
I don’t know why, but Mad Men is really great.
Testing
Testing markdown syntax
orange
strawberry
cola
July 2009
7 posts
“Money represents lack. Money represents things in the past (debt) and things in...”
– Daniel Suelo
http://men.style.com/details/features/landing?id=content_9817
2 tags
Band of the day
I discovered 65daysofstatic few months ago, in a youtube video about global warming. After some time I’ve decided to give them a try, and they’ve been in my playlist for few days now. I would describe their music as a mix between rock and trip hop, great companion for working afternoons.
3 tags
Gonna make you sweat
Today I was presented to the newest and coolest agile practice I have ever seen: the sauna meeting.
Instead of using the lack of chairs to limit the length of an agile meeting, we use the ambient temperature. The idea is pretty simple: all meetings are done in a small room without any window, air conditioning or ventilation. Cheap, green and trendy!
Sauna meeting is a breath of fresh air for...
1 tag
Zero tolerance
I can’t stand sugar in my beverages anymore. I don’t know exactly why it happened, but they are all too sweet to me: juices, yoghurts, sodas. Even my usual decaf coffee is now sugarless. Weird.
2 tags
Now reading #1.1
Reached page 61. I’m not reading as much as I wanted, but life is the art of the possible.
Got milk?
For the record: I’m giving Remember the Milk another chance. Iphone push notifications are really interesting and the app is nice.
2 tags
Ordinary life
Just getting prepared for another battle.
It should be no big deal, but this time I couldn’t choose my weapons. Unfortunately, the ones I’ve been given are far from reliable. What would MacGyver do?
June 2009
16 posts
1 tag
Space 9
Now I know how actors felt working with Ed Wood.
4 tags
Now reading #1
Just started reading Programming Clojure. Very good read so far.
2 tags
Refracturing
Refracturing is the process of changing a piece of code, leaving it much messier than before. Usually involves brute force technics such as conditionals, inheritance, copy & paste and huge blocks of comments.
They tried to make me go to rehab
Refactoring is dangerous. You can easily spend a whole day cleaning messy code.
And at 6PM you realize that you haven’t accomplished anything but personal satisfaction.
2 tags
The code must go on
The scariest code is the one where things go wrong and the application just goes on.
Any given day
Manager: are you busy?
Coder: not really, I'm just programming.
No mails received during the night! Yay!
1 tag
Mockito →
Mockito saved my bacon today. Easy to use, easy to read and tasty. Cheers!
So far, so good
So far the unibody macbook pro is the perfect laptop. Well built and slim, is the most powerful computer I’ve ever used. The battery lasts much longer than other laptops and heating is not a problem: even after hours of usage and battery recharge the body feels cool and the fan is not racing.
The only pain (physical pain, in this case) is the sharp edges of the body, it can hurt your arm....
1 tag
“More code means more hidden bugs.”
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TDD heresy →
Waiting in line
How damn selfish I am!
“The things you own end up owning you.”
– Tyler Durden in Fight Club
Clojure
New technology added to the learning queue: Clojure.
Disclaimer
This is pretty much a private space. If you are going through these posts, beware that none of this was intended to be read by someone else. The only reason I’m writing here is to strengthen the habit of writing about my daily life and thoughts.
Consider yourself warned.