Lately i’ve been tinkering around with the idea of recreating my blog in a more handcrafted way (ruby on rails) as opposed to the current implementation using WordPress. Don’t get me wrong WordPress is awesome. It has many years and millions of websites as a testament of it’s awesomeness behind it. But i guess my [...]
It was bound to happen; I get easily bored with website layouts and i saw that cluttered old design going away for some time now. This new theme, a much more clean version, is an adaptation of Fiver, by Stinkyinkshop. I think it works really well, wouldn’t you say?
Was just now looking at google analytics for my blog and got some surprises, especially when it comes to the browser people use to access it. Seems that Chrome is leading and Internet Explorer is dead. Long live Internet Explorer Also, very interesting is the fact that i’m Portuguese and Portugal is not on the [...]
A while back i changed my blog domain name from diffract.me to pedroassuncao.com. However, i was dumb enough not to redirect the traffic to the new name – in a transition period. The result? A drop from 100+ visits per day to less than 20. I have to admit that it kind of bummed me [...]
One of the biggest pains of any developer is maintaing the source code. Especially if you – like me – have a gazillion pet projects that need to be updated whenever you come up with “cool idea #20000″ for one of them. Version control systems like Mercurial are awesome, but they are only part of [...]
Recently i had to fill one of those client/customer satisfaction surveys. Endless pages of “how well do you grade feature X” questions that frustrate you beyond the point of killing yourself and your colleagues. And that got me thinking: how about a simple form that asks “Are you happy? Yes/No”? If you answer “yes”, case [...]
I recently decided to drop one of the domain names that points to my blog. After (finally) getting the proper domain (pedroassuncao.com), i figured there was no sense anymore in keeping the old one (diffract.me). Now here’s the problem: A lot of google links that bring a huge percentage of my traffic are pointing to [...]
So I come back from the road trip and what’s they’d first thing I do? Install the wordpress android app so I can blog anywhere, hehe. I kind of decided to use my blog as it was intended (as a web log), not necessarily as people see them these days (as places to write longer [...]
When i think about my mind’s typical excuses not to write on this blog, the one that pops up the fastest is usually the lack of a good blogging desktop client for mac. I know, i know, i should just shut the hell up, use WordPress’ web admin interface, and quit whining. But i have [...]
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 [...]
Following up on my post about RAM (or lack of it), i decided to install a proper wordpress plugin to cache most of the stuff in static HTML files. It’s called WP-SuperCache and i’m hoping it’s really super But now i cannot but wonder if i shouldn’t – somehow – find a way to have [...]
With less than 20 days until my return to the country where the sun does shine (Portugal), i can’t help but thinking more and more about these 3 years in Holland. With that in mind, i decided to write a really long post on my experiences here in the Netherlands during this time. For the [...]
For those who happen to have a blog (and who doesn’t these days?) you are probably aware of intensedebate. It’s basically a system of threaded comments that you can plug into your site and take advantage of… well, now that I look back after uninstalling it I really don’t see an advantage, but I’m sure [...]
I recently came across a really useful article about blog usability tips. I still think the best tip for any blogger is to write about things he/she is passionate about, but these can give you a bit of a boost presenting your content. Here’s my take on some of their tips: Pick a topic for [...]
As you might know, a while back, I started a video podcast on life, technology, and everything, with my dear friend Luis Soares (http://twitter.com/luizsoarez). You can watch the episodes here: http://vimeo.com/channels/tgab. Recently it came to our attention that we do not have a graphical identify yet (like we didn’t notice ) so work has began [...]
While skimming through a blog entry by Nicolas Patten (http://twitter.com/nicholaspatten), I noticed the small twitter follower counter he has on his Posterous account. When I clicked to check it out, I eventually tried to see what the stats were about my own twitter account. As you may or may not know, some 3 months ago [...]
I will continue writing on Posterous I will however, as the proper geeky thing to do, create the posts automatically using the Posterous API everytime I post something new to my own blog Posted via web from nocivus’ ramblings
Did you ever feel the need to unplug from your online life? I’m referring to the range of social networking tools that we have around us, like facebook, twitter, posterous, plaxo, linkedin, hi5, pingfm, just to name a few. I know I have, in more that one ocasion, and today I finally started thinking about [...]
via posterous.com Posterous now has a cool bookmarklet to ease the posting of websites, videos, photos (etc.) that you come across on the web. Just drag it to your bookmarks toolbar and start posting what you find Cool stuff, guys. I love posterous more and more Posted via web from nocivus’ ramblings
Listening to the soundtrack of the movie Rockstar. My new favorite song is now “We all die young”, by the fictional band “Steel Dragon”. In other news, it’s freaking cold in Amsterdam: http://picasaweb.google.com/assuncas/20080110_Cold_Day_Amsterdam Posted via email from nocivus’ ramblings