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A Designer’s Point of View on the New Potential Habitable Planet

Nuno Morgadinho — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:41:42 +0000

Artist: “So what should this thing look like?”
NASA engineer: “It’s 600 light-years away. How the @#$% should I know!”
Artist: “Picking a planet from an old Star Trek episode at random then.”
NASA engineer: “Ok. But no funny stuff. Save the stars, rainbows, and unicorns for your acid trips.”
Artist: “Nebulous clouds in the background- check.”

taken from http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2559186&cid=38270564

Using JQuery and QTip to Make an Image Map with Tooltips

Nuno Morgadinho — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 01:46:17 +0000

I’m trying to meet everyone at the office and thought about marking down in an office plan the people already met, what they do, etc. This turned out to be very easy to do with JQuery and QTip. Here’s how:

First of take the image you want to use and head down to this site to produce the image map automatically (that’s one handy tool I tell you):

http://www.maschek.hu/imagemap/imgmap

After that you can use the ‘alt’ attribute to put the tooltip text. The end result looks like this, some of the spaces are still empty so you’ll have to find the ones that aren’t :)

http://tech.morgadinho.org/cowork/

Enjoy!

Fernando Nobre entrevistado por Miguel Sousa Tavares

Nuno Morgadinho — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:39:22 +0000

Fernando Nobre entrevistado por Miguel Sousa Tavares 19-02-2010 | SIC

Fernando Nobre Candidato à Presidência da República

Nuno Morgadinho — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:15:37 +0000

É com grande satisfação que recebi a notícia de que o Dr. Fernando Nobre é candidato à Presidência da República. É uma lufada de ar fresco na política portuguesa..

http://www.fernandonobre.org

Sending a Balloon into Space

Nuno Morgadinho — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 09:16:31 +0000

Via the Noisebridge Blog

Hooray for Creativity

Nuno Morgadinho — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:35:54 +0000

These guys are just great, I’m in love with them. They’re called Pomplamoose and are from San Francisco.

Welcome 2010!

Nuno Morgadinho — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 16:04:24 +0000

Illusion

Nuno Morgadinho — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:58:28 +0000

Masters say this is all a big illusion, that life and everything around it is nothing more than an illusion, Maya. The first reaction when people hear about this is that it’s total crap. How can it be an illusion if I’m seeing it, if it is here happening in front of my eyes?

Think of a tooth, for example. If you curl your tongue and touch any of your tooth, it really feels like a nice polished surface. Nevertheless, if you zoom into it you’ll see it is actually made of tiny razorblades. It is not that what you see is not real. It’s just you’re probably not seeing it through the right lenses.

Our soul does not keep time, it merely records growth

Nuno Morgadinho — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:19:06 +0000

Caine: Master, what is the best way to meet the loss of one we love?
Master: By knowing that when we truly love it is never lost. It is only after death that the depth of the loss is truly felt and our loved one becomes more a part of us than was possible in life.
Caine: Are we only able to feel this towards those whom we have known and loved for a long time?
Master: Sometimes a stranger known to us for moments can spark our souls to kinship for eternity.
Caine: How can strangers take on such much importance to our souls?
Master: Because our soul does not keep time. It merely records growth.

Sapo Codebits 2009 Talks

Nuno Morgadinho — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:54:51 +0000

Codebits is a programmers/hackers conference that is going to be held in Lisbon during 3 days in the first week of December.

I’ve now talked with a couple of friends and colleagues and many seem not very excited about it and confessed they would most likely not attend. While there can be several explanations for this, I think one of the main reasons is due to the bad PR work the organization has been making. If you go into the main page of the conference you don’t get a clear picture of what will happen, what talks can one expect and what topics will be discussed. As an example of the proper thing see the StackOverflow DevDays page. That’s what you want, a page with speakers, date and topic. Not a blog with pictures of profiles rotating like if you were seeing a dating site.

Having said that I also wanted to say I think Codebits is a great fucking idea and you’d be silly not to attend. There are already some great talks for this year and many of the people there are the enthusiastic developers you probably don’t get to hang around in our daily job, and that can inspire you and renovate your enthusiasm.

Here are some of the talks already announced for this year’s edition*:

Web Application Development by Kai Seidler (Sun Microsystems).
Ruby 1.9 VM’s internals with DTrace by Lourens Naudé, independent consultant and a founding member of the Scrooge DB optimization layer.
MySQL High Availability Solutions by Lenz Grimmer, MySQL Community Relations Team at Sun Microsystems.
Distributed version control systems, also by Lenz Grimmer.

Some of the talks are summarized based on the full description of what was published in the Sapo Codebits 2009 web site.

http://codebits.eu/

http://stackoverflow.carsonified.com/