I’m having alot of fun at OFFF Lisbon, it’s like someone dropped a creativity bomb in Lisbon. :)

I’ve also taken some photos from the Festival which are available at Flickr, so take a look if you’re interested.

In the meantime, here’s some web development resources for this weekend.

Confused about messing with .htaccess files stored on your server? Thankfully, someone invented this handy .htaccess Editor webapp that simplifies your work.

An analysis and comparative on the various CSS Frameworks available today, my favourite is BluePrint but take a look at what satisfies your needs.

LifeHacker published some tips on Blogging, very good info on helping you blog , I should problably take the time to follow them. :)

If you’re in Lisbon enjoy the rest of the weekend, there’s alot of nice places to visit.

A List Apart - a great source for information regarding web development and design - wrote 2 articles a while back talking about Ruby on Rails.

The articles are a sort of introduction and description of the pros and cons of Ruby on Rails, it’s a good reading:
Getting Started with Ruby on Rails
Creating More Using Less Effort with Ruby on Rails

It’s also worth mentioning an interview that Akita did Hongli Lai and Ninh Bui, from Phusion -

I’ve finally managed to took some time to write my trip to Poznán (Poland) to speak at the Rupy 2008 conference.

The conference took place at the Adam Mickiewicz University, Pozna? and according to the organizers “the idea behind the conference is to try to animate Central- and East-European Python and Ruby communities. By inviting experts we want to broaden our knowledge and understanding of presented concepts. The conference is meant to serve the exchange of ideas on the scientific ground”.

I was a bit nervous because it was the first time I was talking outside of Portugal but I guess it went well, there were questions and people seemed interested. I decided to aim my talk mainly at Ruby on Rails newcomers by presenting a series of Rails projects while focusing on a particular problem and presenting the solution in various steps. I’ll try to get the slides online soon.

I enjoyed the time I spent in Poland, I got to meet some genius people (which motivated me and gave me some new goals), some of the talks were very interesting, the conference was well planned and the organization was all very nice, fun and professional.

In the meantime you can find some photos in my Flickr account.