The black hole…
As I posted before, I am teaching Pascal. I could discuss the relevance on teaching this language in this decade, but that is not my concern. I would like just to point The Good, the Bad and the Ugly I find in Pascal. The Good: Pascal evolved and is a high level language. You have […]
Probably you know that I was a teacher at the Computer Science Department at Universidade do Minho. There I was a C and Perl teacher, as well as other classes that are not relevant for this post. Now, I am working at Instituto Politécnico do Porto, in the Escola Superior de Estudos Industriais e de […]
Quiki 0.01 was released last night. It can’t be considered a stable release. While it is usable (in fact Quiki homepage is hosted in Quiki) we know that a lot of details are missing to make it a real wiki system. The truth is that the Request Tracker queue created automatically for CPAN modules is […]
In the last days I have been developing a Restful API for Dicionário Aberto. While Dicionário Aberto is a dictionary for the Portuguese language and therefore most users are Portuguese I prefer to describe the API here in English. You can use a JSON or XML approach. URLs are the same. You can just change […]
Jonas Nielsen twitted about Book Hunter, a Mac OS X application to organize your library. It is cool because you add the ISBN or title, ask it to autocomplete, and it fetches all the missing information from the Web. I did this to some of my technical books (not all, yet), and I discovered I […]
At the present moment in my free time (that is going to be all day if I do not find a job in the next days) I am developing, together with Smash, another wiki in Perl,named Quiki. Quiki is being developed with DokuWiki in mind. The main idea is to have a small base of […]
Next week will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, the tenth Yet Another Perl Conference Europe, also known as YAPC::EU::2009. This event was proposed by José Castro and myself, and is being organized by us with Magda Joana Silva. Things are almost ready. T-Shirts were bought, proceedings are printed, badges are ready (not for late registered […]
Sapo Summerbits is a grants program similar to Google Summer of Code. Its main differences are the proposing institutions that are Portuguese, the projects that are focused on the Portuguese community and the students that should be attending at a Portuguese university. Thus, this is a tiny Google Summer of Code clone for the Portuguese […]
Today I’ve sent an email to Michael Schwern, creator of ExtUtils::MakeMaker module asking for some help. In the subject line I wrote something like: “Need help from the God“. This is his answer… 1. And God said unto ambs: 2. Blessed are the built-ins; for they shall work for all. 3. Blessed is require(); for […]