I recently came across this devilish we application that turns any website into a version that could have been hosted on geocities a long, long time ago. … I just laughed my @ss off looking at the “Bill Gates is the devil” image on the right 
This is my fourth time in Amsterdam since i started working remotely. Obviously, once i moved back to Portugal i took all my belongings there and gave up my house in Holland so, every time i come to Amsterdam i have to stay at an hotel in the city. I have experienced three, so far: [...]
Just a couple of pictures this time. The first one is about something i noticed i was doing, while searching for a code fragment. One could call it ironic, trying to find “find” The other is proof of my amazement by the fact that there was one person who visited my blog using an iPad [...]
Today i found a neat trick. Typically when you inject an AnnotationSessionFactoryBean into one of your classes you end up with a SessionFactory on the other side. This is because Spring is doing its magic inside, proxying stuff so you end up with an easy way to instantiate hibernate sessions. The problem is that i [...]
Am i the only one who is pissed off by this? Aren’t RSS feeds supposed to be the awesome way of consuming information? And for what? Web page hits? Here’s a newsflash, dudes, your website isn’t that good looking Here’s what i mean: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/.rss
As far as drummers go i always looked at Mike Portnoy – from the band DreamTheater – as one of my all time favorites. Only recently (and to my sorrow since he died in 1987) i came across the one who is definitely the greatest drummer of all time. I’m talking about Buddy Rich. Don’t [...]
I’m starting to love Layar more and more. One of the latest “layers” introduced was the ability to view the Berlin wall – as if it was still standing – by pointing your phone to the place where the wall used to exist. You can read the entire article here. Do you see the potential? [...]
It recently came to my attention the existence of this heavily-client-based web framework to develop desktop-like applications called Sproutcore and is backed up by Apple (there is another cool alternative called Capuccino). Basically it relies on Javascript to create nice desktop-like applications, but on the web. Ever since i heard about node.js i have been [...]
“A well-known hacker of the iPhone, who previously defeated Apple’s restrictions on developers, has claimed in a video to have hacked the iPad. Just a day after release, the hacker, who goes by ‘MuscleNerd’ online, said that he has gained root access to the iPad…”, as seen on slashdot.
My mother just offered me a mini zen garden. How cool is that?