EVOL.reverse

I just found out the ‘Annotate Tool’ on Mac OS X Preview.app and I’m glad I did. That’s the right tool for peer-reviewing PDF documents. It’s a pity someone on Windows/Linux can’t have such a tool. I recorded a small demo of its usage that’s available here.

reCAPTCHA, via bmaurer.

While writing my thesis, at some point, I did a whole section about the programming language used in the work. I thought it was a good thing to do at the moment and I wanted to present the benefits and the differences of the language used vs other programming languages. This is so naive.

My thesis is not about programming languages. - so why even bring that up?

Unsupported claims will harm more than help your thesis. In a scientific paper every statement should be supported by a citation to another paper that defends such statement or an explanation from you. How will you give an explanation for something you haven’t researched properly?

Proving such statement would require alone another thesis. - which you probably don’t have the time.

Because no one cares? Finally, the most important reason, if people are reading your work, most likely they aren’t looking for a particular case on a specific programming language but rather what you did, how you did it and what results you’ve obtained.

Back to the cave..cya

mickey and pedro, from OpenBSD, arrived last week from Germany to spend a couple of days in Portugal and they are staying over. Together with Rodolfo (from Madeira), we headed over to Coimbra on the weekend to meet up with other developers, like Marc Balmer from Switzerland and the recently promoted-to-developer Rui Reis and other not-less-important friends and enthusiasts. It was nice but I got a feeling next time we could/should skip the talks and just hack and chill. I liked the talk about asynchronous I/O although it became too technical for me sometime there in the middle.

Now the hard part is coming back to reality. These events really get me excited and full of energy to do stuff and then on Monday its like “get to work”, “you have these totally different shits to do”.. and it sucks.

Once more, the Portuguese OpenBSD Usergroup will be holding a meeting on the 5 - 6 of May, in Coimbra, Portugal. This will be our 7th meeting.

How many of us can really say they use a truly free, functional and secure operating system without software blobs in which we have access to every single line of code that makes up the system? This is what OpenBSD is all about.

Developer Marc Balmer will give talk “Ensuring Quality in OpenBSD Without a Formal Process”. Developers Pedro Martelletto, Michael Shalayeff, and Rui Reis will be around as well.

Here’s a link to the event page.

Judge Judy says, “KISS! Keep It Simple, Stupid.”
and David Hansson says “DRY! Don’t Repeat Yourself.”

take all the time you need
don’t forget to breathe in the meanwhile
for the minute all you have is a hand full of nothing

and a heart that’s pulsing inside your chest

so, take all the time you need
don’t forget to breathe in the meanwhile
for the minute all you have is a hand full of nothing

and a heart that’s pulsing inside your chest

well don’t bother me!
who I am?
I’m just a man imprisoned in a body cell
and it’s her life spinning on the tip of my finger
shall I shoot it? or should I leave it spinning?
it’s true, our heart it’s free, don’t you know?
we’re the mechanism empowering the shooting bow
we’re talking about a new free area of perfect sense
just like the message we represent

take all the time you need
don’t forget to breathe in the meanwhile
for the minute all you have is a hand full of nothing

and a heart that’s pulsing inside your chest

This week we had a plasma in the office to test an application. We ended up getting the XBox 360 from downstairs and took a chance at Burnout.

• MDM Zinc - to create a serious application that involves file operations or Windows controllers like Media Player, IE, etc.
• Tweener class @ Google Code - for creating tweenings and other transitions. Support sequences.
• flexcoders @ Yahoo! Groups - discussion about developing Rich Internet Applications using Macromedia Flex.

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