Reinventar

The new year started with new projects and I’ve been real busy at Think Orange trying to adapt my life from all the pros and cons of being part of a startup, but that’s a post for another time.  The new website is online and I’m really proud and happy about the end result. I [...]

Last weekend, the LX Factory in Alcantâra was stage to SAPO CodeBits 08, a 24 hours programming contest for the web, with an aditional full day and morning of workshops to learn new stuff. More intense and bigger than last year, the event had areas where you could play with machinery, RFID technology, OpenMoko’s, make [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

For some reason my local Ruby on Rails applications weren’t sending  e-mails, so I found out that all you need is to write the following on terminal: sudo postfix start And that’s it, now I can send emails from applications running on my Mac. Nice!