Archive | September, 2008

My new Moo Cards arrived

My new Moo Cards have arrived today. This new set is more based in humor, so most of the images have some sort of reference and hidden message. More pics at my Flickr gallery. Delivery time was excelent as always and just in time for the next conferences and events for this end of the [...]

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10 things you didn’t know about Firebug

Many of you heard of Firebug extension for Firefox mainly for javacript debugging but what you don’t know is that it’s a powerful tool for helping with CSS, DOM and could save you precious hours of work between page refreshes and debugging. So without further delays, let me present you with 10 things you didn’t [...]

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Star Wars Artwork

I stumbled on this by accident but I thought I should share it. You can find on Flickr a selection of Ralph McQuarrie’s concept paintings and drawings done for the original Star Wars trilogy. Looking at it brings back alot of great memories of the movies and the universe surrounding it. The artwork is fantastic, [...]

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Setting up GIT and Passenger with Capistrano

This week I needed to get Capistrano working with GIT because I moved some of my Ruby on Rails projects from SVN to GITHUB and I Capistrano garantees a easy deployment solution. There’s plenty of information out there about GIT, you can find plenty of guides at github and some videos at Railscasts and GitCasts. [...]

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Performance on Rails Barcamp pt 08

I just finished my presentation on Barcamp pt 08 which is held again in Coimbra. Although I was a bit nervous I think it went ok. The topic I choose was Performance on Ruby on Rails where I talked about the different issues surrounding getting the most performance out of your Ruby applications. I spoke [...]

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