Posted: January 22nd, 2010 | Author:lrei | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags:Entertainment, freedom, News | 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“.
Posted: March 16th, 2009 | Author:lrei | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags:BEST, FEUP, News, Ui | 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)
Posted: April 28th, 2008 | Author:lrei | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags:Internet, News, Software, Tech, Ui | 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.
Posted: April 4th, 2008 | Author:lrei | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags:linux, News | Comments Off
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
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“.
* 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.
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.
