Work in progress....

Information Imperialism

Posted: January 22nd, 2010 | Author: lrei | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , | Comments Off

I just had to share this!

“The US has criticised China’s policies to administer the internet, and insinuated that China restricts internet freedom,” he said in a statement posted on the foreign ministry website.

“This runs contrary to the facts and is harmful to China-US relations.

An article in the Communist Party’s Global Times English language news website called Mrs Clinton’s criticisms “information imperialism“.

(my emphasis)

Via BBC News


24hours BEST Engineering Competition

Posted: March 16th, 2009 | Author: lrei | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , | Comments Off

Seriously, if you don’t know BEST Engineering Competitions, get to know them. They are incredibly fun. I’m not the “build stuff” kind of guy, my usual approach to “hardware” involves smacking stuff – the caveman approach. But I tried it for a bit and found it surprisingly fun.

The 24hours BEST Engineering competition will be held next weekend. You can participate if you’re a student @ FEUP or FCUP.

Here’s the promo video (flash)

Go to the website for more information (Portuguese)


Third time…

Posted: February 11th, 2009 | Author: lrei | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: | Comments Off

I just migrated my blog for the 3rd time

1 – Blogger to wordpress @ neacm.fe.up.pt

2 – wordpress@neacm.fe.up.pt to wordpress.com

3 – wordpress.com to self-hosted

More info soon.


Wordpress Related Content

Posted: April 28th, 2008 | Author: lrei | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , | Comments Off

Wordpress.com (where this blog is hosted) recently started appending

Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)

To every blog post. These are links to other blogs hosted on wordpress.com that are (possibly) related to it. This feature can be disabled but personally I like it :)

You can try it by clicking for example on one of my “not so new” posts (like this one) and scrolling to the bottom.


Advanced Linux Administration Course – Porto

Posted: April 4th, 2008 | Author: lrei | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , | Comments Off

cursos

My friend José Gaspar will be teaching an Advanced Administration Course (Curso Administração Avançada de Servidores Linux)

Some highlights/keywords:

  • Servers: WWW, FTP, DNS, DHCP, LDAP, E-Mail
  • Samba (with quotas)
  • Security
  • XEN

Location: Rua da Boavista, Porto Portugal (link)
Date: From April 22 to June 3.
Schedule: Tuesday and Thursday, 19h-23h (4h)
Duration: 72h
Price: 300 euros

More information (in portuguese):
http://moodle.libhertz.com
http://www.solutionsout.com/cursos.htm


MacWorld08 The Steve Jobs 90 Minute Keynote in 60 Seconds

Posted: January 18th, 2008 | Author: lrei | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , | Comments Off

The Steve Jobs 90 Minute Keynote in 60 Seconds

For those who don’t have the patience/time to watch SJ promote Apple’s latest crap for 90 freakin minutes but still want to watch it.


Google Reader Went Social

Posted: December 30th, 2007 | Author: lrei | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , | 2 Comments »

In case you haven’t heard, Google Reader went Social.

Summary: Add people to your gmail chat/gtalk and you’ll be able to see their Reader’s shared items and they’ll be able to see yours. It’s a great way to not miss interesting blog posts (specially “niche posts” that don’t hit the digg frontpage) and to make sure you get the “news that matters” to you.

My contact, if you want to add me to is: luis.rei@gmail.com
My friends list is currently populated by a few fellow Prt.Sc bloggers and Robert Scoble and it’s already great! I hope I can get a few more people in.

This feature was added in a controversial manner: without informing the users that items they had shared with select people were about to be shared with all their contacts. If this happens to be a problem for you, google has posted some “fixes“.


News From The Front Of The Second Browser War

Posted: December 19th, 2007 | Author: lrei | Filed under: Programming | Tags: , , , , , | Comments Off

* HTML5

* JS2


Sapo Codebits 2007 – The Summary Part 1

Posted: November 19th, 2007 | Author: lrei | Filed under: Programming, Python | Tags: , , , , , | 1 Comment »

The Talks/Workshops

* Amazon WebServices Architecture by Mike Culver – I learned more about S3 and I knew nothing about EC2 which is actually very interesting.

* IronPython and Dynamic Languages on .NET by Mahesh Prakriya – I missed it but a lot of people said it was brilliant.

* Building platforms by Fred Oliveira – I got to learn more about microformats, APIs and web scraping.

* Creating a game in 60 minutes (Criar jogo em 60 minutos) by Paulo Laureano – this one was inspirational :) the concept was mixing sample code using to create a game quickly. While actually creating a game took me between 6 and 8h that can be attributed to the lack of sample code to do certain things I wanted to do.

The Contest

For the first 6-8h or so I worked with Celso Pinto and Armando Alves on an idea by Samuel Martins – Sapo Boa Vida. Andreia Gaita helped me a bit with some peculiarities of DOM. My code fetched the information from Sapo GIS.

Later my code was converted to PHP by Celso and I went on to work on my game project (the one inspired by Paulo Laureano’s workshop) while Samuel started with the PHP and Celso went home. I only interrupted my work on my game project, Kill All Squares, to help Samuel with PHP’s DOM – Celso’s conversion of my code was a bit too literal and as Joao from the Sapo Team found out, PHP’s DOM is a bit more peculiar (strict) requiring the NS to be specified.

Sapo Boa Vida eventually won one of the prizes (the prize for the best Mashup).

People

I met a lot of people – many from prt.sc and from the Sapo Team but also others. Some caused a very good impression. I got a lot of good tips, advice and even help in the contest (from the people I already mentioned).
I probably would’ve had more time for the contest and would’ve been able to work on a 3rd project (there were other ideas) but one of the big points in going to this kind of events is talking to other people.


LAMP, Rails, Django Server Virtual Appliance

Posted: November 12th, 2007 | Author: lrei | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , | Comments Off

If you’re like me and don’t like having to install all that stuff in every PC you use than this virtual appliance is for you.

Or

If you want to start learning PHP/Ruby on Rails/Django _now_ instead of having to install/configure stuff.

Or

If you’re going to something like Sapo Codebits and want to take the server with you ;)

Hightlights: LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP), Ruby on Rails, Django

UbuntuWebServer Project

Virtual Appliance Market

VMWare Player (Free)