Eating Out in Lisbon

Posted on August 30, 2010 by Nuno Morgadinho

Ohh I’m going into dangerous territory here reviewing restaurants. There is lots and lots of choice and by no means I’m affiliated with any of these restaurants so please don’t get too sentimental over it, it’s just some of my favourites. Scenario: You have a group of friends and you want to go out in Lisbon to have some food. The options can be overwhelming, there is a lot to choose from and you probably won’t be easily disappointed. Nevertheless, here are some of my favourites that you can try.

Italian

Price Range: ~ 17€ per person

Address:

Avenida Conde de Valbom Nº52-A
1050-069 Lisboa, Portugal
217 613 580

The pizzas are the best I ever had and you can have half of one kind and half of another which is great.

http://www.lafinestra.pt/

Chinese

Price Range: ~ 10€ per person

Address:

8A Rua Pascoal de Melo
Lisbon 1000-230
21 812 3349

“Hong Kong Grande Palácio” is a Cantonese restaurant with awesome food and low prices. Perfect for your Udon soup :)

Vegetarian

Price Range: ~18€ per person

Address:

Rua da Palmeira, 15
Lisboa, Portugal
213 421 407

Very nice restaurant especially if you manage a place outside in the private garden.

http://www.restauranteterra.pt/English/Welcome.html

Portuguese

Price Range: ~ 15€ per person

Address:

Travessa do Pregoeiro 15,
1600 Lisboa, Portugal‎
217 143 622‎

A very special place with ties covering the ceiling of the main room. Extremely good food.

What about you? Any favourites you want to share?

The Future of WordPress

Posted on April 13, 2010 by Nuno Morgadinho

Scott Berkun will talk about the future of WordPress at the WordCamp San Francisco 2010. He is asking for suggestions on things to talk so if you have any ideas head here. On the other hand, you can read upon my suggestions there or here:

1) Keep the Simplicity – My greatest fear with WordPress is that people won’t stop adding more things to it. I like its smallness. The merging of WordPress MU in the upcoming 3.0 version is just one example of the unnecessary growing complexity of the WordPress code base.

2) Be more Open – Automattic keeps control of the only official plugin repository and WordPress only works with it. Reminds me of the Apple App Store and I for sure don’t want anything like that for WordPress.

Support Fernando Nobre

Posted on March 8, 2010 by Nuno Morgadinho

For the 2011 Portuguese Presidential elections I will be supporting Fernando Nobre. Not that anyone cares but I thought I should mention it. For that reason I’ve added to my blog a small support banner linking to the campaign site.

I’ve also been thinking how I can contribute and help with the campaign, and how to enable people that are interested in helping out to do so effectively, besides the obvious sign-up for voluntary help at the campaign site.

If you have a WordPress blog, I’ve made public a widget you can use on the sidebar of your blog to display a small image banner just like the one I’m using. It’s an easy way of showing our support and it’s very easy to install:

Inside the WordPress admin, go to Plugins -> Add New and search for ‘Fernando Nobre’.
Click ‘Install’.
Inside the WordPress admin, go to Appearance > Widgets, and add the ‘Apoio Fernando Nobre’ widget where you want, then save the changes.
That’s it!

And here’s the link to the plugin page:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/support-fernando-nobre/

Invoic€xpress – Software de Facturação

Posted on March 3, 2010 by Nuno Morgadinho

Para freelancers e pequenos negócios que precisem de um software para facturação, podem dar uma vista de olhos ao Invoic€xpress. Já suporta o formato SAFT-PT que desde 1 de Janeiro de 2010 é obrigatório e também facturas electrónicas, entre outras funcionalidades.

É um serviço totalmente web-based e tem um trial de 30 dias grátis para se experimentar. Após o periódo de trial, consoante o plano escolhido, paga-se uma pequena mensalidade por mês, mas é também possivel adquirir pacotes de facturas a vulso por um preço fixo (para quem não gostar de pagar mensalidades).

Fica a dica. Aproveitem e se experimentarem e gostarem digam qualquer coisa.

p.s. O Invoic€xpress é um produto da RUPEAL.

How to Get More From Social Media and Networking

Posted on February 18, 2010 by Nuno Morgadinho

Do you want to get more from social networking? Do you want to increase the level of conversation and interaction with your followers? Then start chopping down, not adding more of them.

I’ve reduced the number of people I had on Twitter from 185 down to 50. I was getting hammered by so many tweets that I didn’t care that some of them had to go. Over the next weeks I will be selecting 50 persons that I will follow and interact with. That means those 50 better be good or they will be replaced.

Information overload. That’s a big problem. Our heads are overloaded with information and simplifying all that information into a digestible form is a big challenge. What’s the solution? Selection.