Building simplicidade.org: notes, projects, and occasional rants

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Sadness

I do hope Rui has made a mistake with his pills and is seeing things in a parallel universe (got to love the pun). Are they idiots? Technorati Tags: apple, windows

Lust

Finally! 1 Gb RAM, 120Gb disk, 256Mb VRAM, 8x SuperDrive DL, 5.5 hours battery life. 3.1Kg, 1/2 Kg more than my current 15" TiBook. Now waiting 2 months to fetch one from FNAC. Technorati Tags: apple, mac, powerbook, macbookpro

MySQL replication

An excellent article about MySQL replication is online at OnLamp.com. Definitively check it out. Technorati Tags: mysql

Google Maps wishlist

Dear Google Maps, sometimes I see those nice and shiny URL's in other people blogs, you know, like this one: http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=47.663427%7E-122.142801&style=o&lvl=2&scene=3688581. It seems a nice and power-full URL, full of joy. Yet, when I click on it, my Safari browser is not able to load the page. I'm sure that the fault lies on those fun-loving-mac-geeks at Apple that don't know how to code. So in the meantime, can you accept local.

From the Steve Jobs’s Commencement address at Stanford: Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work, and the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking, and don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it, and like any great relationship it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

Switching Jobs

Well, it was bound to happen. I got a job offer. A great team of people I like offered me a change to work with some cool applications, and it will still be related to XMPP. The language will change but that's ok, because I also like Ruby :). So sometime in the next couple of weeks I'll be starting to work at 37Signals. I wont talk about what I'll be doing, expect mentioning XMPP.

Switching Jobs

Well, it was bound to happen. I got a job offer. A great team of people I like offered me a change to work with some cool applications, and it will still be related to XMPP. The language will change but that's ok, because I also like Ruby :). So starting sometime in the next couple of weeks I'll be starting to work at 37Signals. I wont talk about what I'll be doing, expect mentioning XMPP.

Not Reboot 8.0, but ReBorn 2.0

A friend of mine mentioned Reboot 8.0 is coming up, and having attended Reboot 7.0 (and liked it a lot) he asked me if I was going. My answer is that I'm going to ReBorn 2.0, because my second son will arrive more or less by that time. A new son is probably the best closed source program I ever been part of. Have fun, all of you going! Technorati Tags: reboot

Jingle

A quick note to point out that version 0.3 of libjingle is out. As far as I can see, the major change is the inclusion of a lite version of the media component used by Google Talk. Technorati Tags: google, googletalk, jingle, libjingle, xmpp

SCM systems again

I've been using darcs with some success on my personal projects for more than a year now. The good thing about darcs is that it's very easy to start using, and some features, like the interactive record (commits for those using other SCMs), are extremely powerful. I also had some problems with it, specially with large repos. It's getting a lot better but still, sometimes, with specific patches, it takes as long time to merge changes between repos.