Centopeia, just got a face wash! It all started with the blix template, and with a major help from Isa on the logo redesign! Without her help wouldn’t be possible, since I’m so lousy Illustrator user!
Together with the face wash, it’s now also possible to hear this blog on podcasts, just subscribe the new audio podcast feed (made possible by Talkr).
6 comments August 31st, 2005
We arrived Braga yesterday, after a 4 hour drive from Lisbon, fortunally all went well, well almost everything, at some point we were suposed to stop at Mealhada for having dinner, but by the time the highway way out came up we as driving at high speed on the left lane, so we had to stop a bit up north at Aveiro for dinner.
I’ve been finisihing my presentation for this afternoon up until late, so I didn’t get much sleep. Which might explain why I have forgotten part of the recording stuff back at the hotel, so i’ll have to manage a way and time to get back there sometime over the morning, or no podcasts at all!
José opened the YAPC::EU, we was my colleague at log, and ever since a friend, I must tell you he is indeed one of the most funny presenters I’ve met, and he doesn’t leave that to any other else, he just presented us with the most funny openning session I’ve attended for quite sometime.
Larry Wall is speaking at this precise momment. My first impression (since it’s my first time listenning to him live) is much more richer than I might already expect! He’s covering some of perl’s communty aspects, and the second part of the presentation being a bit more technical, talking a bit about the development of the future release of Perl.
1 comment August 31st, 2005
Sapo, as an official sponsor of this year YAPC, just issued a press release about the conference, if you know portuguese you can read it here.
We’re heading for Braga in a few hours! 
And I’ve just teamed up with Sebastião for recording the maximum number of sessions we can, and if we’re allowed to actually record them. All of the recording material will end up at archive.org, but more on that will follow…
Add comment August 30th, 2005
For those you might haven’t noticed, this year European YAPC is happening in Braga, Portugal and I just received an email from the organizers stating that Larry Wall, Perl’s author is already in Portugal! This sounds to me light an important ingredient for an important YAPC! I’ve been in YAPC::EU in Amesterdam, together with ZéNuno, and it was excellent, but Larry was missing for some personal problem, and things weren’t the same. So I have big expectations for this years YAPC::EU. Let’s wait and see!
I’m going to try to record some podcasts of the presentations there: 1º if I’m allowed, and 2º If i managed to have time. I would also like to steal some might words from Larry itself, hehehe but I’ll make my day just by meeting him. After all Perl just safed my day too many times!
Add comment August 29th, 2005
By some misfortune of mine, this month’s Wired was becoming a drama to find, seems like one of the major international magazines imports just expired leaving me and André without our monthly supply of paper reading. After visiting quite a long list of newsstands I manage to find the last and only magazine in a Rossio news stand, well it was pretty messed up, but for a reader and collector like me, I rather prefer having this one, than not having it at all.
This month edition features some great articles, one of which about the last 10 years, in fact it’s more about how this last 10 years have actually managed to change the world we live in. And according to Wired everything pretty much started with the Netscape going public!
The Netscape IPO wasn’t really about dot-commerce. At its heart was a new cultural force based on mass collaboration. Blogs, Wikipedia, open source, peer-to-peer - behold the power of the people.
Here’s a quick outline of the whole article:
A Decade of Genius and Madness
It’s funny to note that 10 short years ago today, Microsoft released Windows 95, with the Rolling Stones hit “Start Me Up”, looking back right know, one could tell how far from reality (aka web) Microsoft was!
Today, at this exact same date, Google just released a new chat service, called Google Talk, check it out, it’s based over Jabber protocol, coincidence? I don’t think so, do you?
U2’s latest tour also makes it’s way into this issue of Wired, the article is called “U2’s City of Blinding Lights“. I haven’t read it yet, but by crossing my eyes over it’s pages I just noticed some impressive details about all the machinery that made it’s way to this super concert (which I btw just attend to the last concert of the European tour last week in Lisbon).
3 comments August 24th, 2005
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