new new new and old
Posted on November 6, 2006, by admin, under Apple, Blog, Web.
What a busy week, it’s been a while since I’ve written anything here. That’s because I’ve been writing some beginners stuff over at “ruby in portuguese” and an article or two for the online magazine “Programar”.
But apart from that there was a lot of activity in the web in the last week or two.
Apple for example, has updated the MacBook Pro with Core 2 Duo processors and more memory making it my Christmas dream present (yeah!), the Ipod Shuffle was also remastered and is out on stores (so small isn’t it?) as well as the upgraded RED edition of the Ipod Nano (with 8GB), part of the money goes to fighting aids so that’s good news too.
I was also happy to know that my favorite web browser has reached version 2.0, yes I’m talking about Firefox. Among the updates there’s a new look (great looking icons) and a built-in spell-checker, SilentBits wrote a comprehensive review of what’s new and some tweaks in this article.
In the meantime, Wordpress (which powers this site) was also updated to version 2.05 Ronan with many security fixes (see the list at Mark’s Site)so everyone join the wagon.
The cherry in the cake was of course the new Gmail mobile app which makes reading and downloading mails in the cellphone easier and faster. I was impressed but prices for gprs are still very expensive here in Portugal (shame!).
Let’s see what this week will bring.
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ruby in portuguese is live
Posted on October 31, 2006, by admin, under Blog, Events.
After a gruesome weekend with lots of coffee and snacks I’ve managed to finish the design and look of ruby in portuguese,
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WeBreakStuff won at RailsDay 2006
Posted on October 25, 2006, by admin, under Blog, Events, Programming.
WeBreakStuff won the first place for best user interface award at RailsDay 2006.
RailsDay 2006 was a 24 hour event in which anyone could participate with a team and create a web application in Rails, there were prizes and it was a great opportunity to show off your great skills in,well, whatever your keen at.
Anyway, WeBreakStuff is a Portuguese startup, composed off Frederico Oliveira, Tiago Macedo and Pedro Eduardo Lemos Freitas and they entered the competition with weRateStuff (original name!). In Fred’s words a “social review-anything web application”.
The interface was in fact simple and beautiful. The team is in the meantime working on Goplan (an online project-manager in Rails) and they also made a post about their recent victory, read it here.
You can also check out the reviews that fellow blogger Evan Weaver made of the rest of the participants in the competition, there were alot of different ideas and I guess everyone ended up gaining positive experiences from this event. See you guys next year.
