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Oct 26 2008
November 1, 2008 5pm – Lisboa Pillow Fight Club at Alameda Afonso Henriques em Lisboa
Está agendada para Sábado, dia 1 de Novembro às 17:00, na Alameda Afonso Henriques em Lisboa, uma batalha de almofadas que espelha as que se fazem em outras partes do mundo. O campo de batalha será o relvado à frente da Fonte Luminosa.
A não perder.
Oct 25 2008
Afinal sempre chegaram a publicar o que lhes enviei, pena que não avisassem assim que lançaram a notícia.
Oct 22 2008
If you don’t know what a variable is, or what debugging means, please look away - you might hurt yourself.
Let me introduce you to Apple’s Instruments, another amazing semi-hidden application that comes bundled with OS X Developer Tools (yes, I’m looking at you, Quartz Composer). It isn’t quite hidden, it actually lives under /Developer/Application; I’ve just never heard of it! But a few couple of minutes have blown me completely away. Just when I though It wasn’t possible to love the Apple any more.
Instruments is a super-complete debugging tool that allows you to really focus on application behaviour rather than code. It’s also an amazing software and hardware testing tool, with several modules that can measure everything from CPU time consumption, to UI activity or directories-only I/O. You can use it to run newly created instances of your apps or even by attaching it to running applications.
It is a pretty hardcore application in an extremely pleasant package - the kind with which Apple has pampered us, developers, for quite some time. And it makes me think: with products like this, what the hell have all the other development developers been doing? I mean, I’m still debugging the same way I was when I first started programming
Here are some more lovely screenies. Enjoy.
Oct 14 2008
Tomorrow I’ll be going to SHiFT! I’m really embarrassed for not having talked about this previously, but I’ll argue that I’m under a quite heavy workload right now. Sorry Pedro!
It’s expected to be an awesome conference with a lot of interaction going on, from workshops to various talks by some great, great guys and girls. So, first thing in the morning, I’ll be at Nick Weldin’s workshop Open Tecnology opening up the room on the Arduino board. See you there!
Oct 07 2008
Oct 06 2008
I’m here tonight to let you in on a little secret: my top favourite wallpaper sites. Yep, the ones where I get most of my laptop coolness. Prepare yourself ’cause these bad boys will rock your Start Menu Gnome Thingy Dock! And here they are, by inverted order of preference:
Crafted by a fellow Portuguese man, this community monetarily rewards artists who send in wallpapers alongside an optional tutorial related to it. It is a new and great initiative that brings in tons of good wallpapers. If you think you have what it takes, submit your own!
Also from Portugal comes Random Wallpapers, which simply is a feed of very nice wallpapers. It was advertised earlier this week on Paintbits, a personal favourite blog on digital arts.
This guy and his camera… he astonishes me every time with hi-res wallpapers, almost all of them dedicated to a multi-monitor setup. The wallpapers come in a variety of resolutions to everyone’s comfort. Some really nice paintings also show up, from now and then.
Gosh. If only I could express the quality of these wallpapers using words. You’ll just have to check it out yourself. Kitsune Noir is the personal blog of Bobby Solomon, designer. Which I admired before for his work and now even more for having pretty much the same tastes as I do in things like movies, music and food.
Last year Bobby made a tribute to Radiohead’s career by creating a wallpaper for each of the band’s albums, commemorating the launch of their latest album. The result came out excelent. And based off this, he started The Desktop Wallpaper Project in which he invites his favourite artists to present a wallpaper every Wednesday morning until, Flying Spaghetti Monster forbid, the wallpapers run out!
Be sure not to miss his wonderful mixtapes!
