The dream is over…
Even though everybody was being really unfair with our team and we lost with a doubtful penalty (again!!!), we have to be able to show sportsmanship in defeat…
See you in 4 years…
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Who cares about technology when your country is in the semi-finals of the Word Cup and you’re a football fanatic?
I think our national team’s performance may do more for our foreign image than millions of euros worth of tourism advertising.
About my predictions, I wasn’t counting on Germany or France reaching the semis but now I’m a little nervous about wednesday’s match because the last two times we played in official competitions against France, we lost in semi-finals…
Here’s a video that shows our players can play a beautifull game and that they don’t need to cheat to beat anyone: YouTube Video
FORÇA PORTUGAL
My predictions seem to come throuhg so far…
<portuguese>Força Portugal!!! Hoje é sumo de laranja, no sábado é bife e quem sabe, nas meias paelha e na final picanha 
</portuguese>
I actually think Google is a true software company, but it’s still very funny 
Btw, check out Google Spreadsheets and Google Notebook.
I wonder what they’ll come up with next… I’m betting on a web based text processor (they bought Writely for some reason) but what I’m hoping on a task feature for Google Calendar…
This a litle off-topic but I had to post my FIFA Word Cup predictions
[Update 28/06/2006: After 7 matches, my first miss: Spain - France]
This is very bad publicity but I keep my faith in JBoss
This is about the 3rd or 4th time I change this blog’s appearence.
And yes… I know It’s not a good practise but I can’t help it
The fact is, when you’re using a service that constantly adds new themes in a cute gallery to choose from, it’s hard to resist. Which brings me to this point:
- Personal Homepages are Dead
Why it’s much better to have a blog:
- No HTML / JS / Database work / Server-Side Programming / whatever;
- Write and publish at the push of a button;
- Automatic content syndication;
- Automatic update notifications and indexing;
- Great quality templates and designs, ready to use and easily accessible;
My next post: “Why it’s much better to just watch tv and drink beer” 
[PS: Yes... I know that you can have all the beneffits I mentioned with a good CMS but still, It's not the adequate solution to the vast majority of internet users who don't know what a CMS is...]
Understanding the Psychology of Programming:
Contrary to popular belief, programmers more frequently resemble artists than scientists.
This is very true…
To be considered a genuine programmer, you have to have the creativity, passion, bad humor and big ego of an artist.
For a number of reasons I've recently decided to give Fedora a try.
I could explain you the reasons I decided to leave my previous distro, Ubuntu but I'll leave it for another time.
So, to make a long story short…
- Installed Fedora Core 5;
- Solved a package manager application problem (turn off);
- Installed my PCMCIA UMTS card & Internet connection (another turn off, in Ubuntu it was a much less painful task);
- Installed some extra packages;
- Made some Windows / Linux integration stuff;
- Browsed through other Fedora community websites (great stuff here);
- Eventually ended up in the Red Hat Magazine…
… where I found two great articles about my favorite (and indispensable) working tool, Eclipse, which apparently enjoys some appreciation in a part of the Linux community.
Because I'm a Linux enthusiast and also an Eclipse intensive user, I decided to point them out:
1. redhat.com | Introduction to Eclipse on Fedora:
Eclipse™ is a very popular open source, application-rich platform that is written in Java. The beauty of Eclipse is its extensibility and cross-platform compatibility. The Eclipse Software Development Kit (SDK) includes an extremely well-built Java® Integrated Development Environment (IDE) as well as a Plug-in Development Environment (PDE). "Plug-ins" are special-purpose software packages that can be installed into the Eclipse framework. For example, Red Hat's Eclipse Bugzilla plug-in integrates a Bugzilla interface into Eclipse.Through plug-ins, the Eclipse framework can be extended to almost any possible area of computing. Plug-ins exist for anything from J2EE development to embedded development to an office application suite.
Eclipse is developed largely on and for the Microsoft® Windows® platform, and even though other platforms–including GNU/Linux–are supported, there is no tight integration between Eclipse and those platforms. Moreover, Eclipse does not have integrated support for traditional open source development practices, and instead focuses mostly on Java development. Fortunately, Fedora Core 5 ships with an integrated Eclipse development environment based on Eclipse 3.1.2, making it possible for Eclipse to run smoothly on Linux.
This article describes the history of this effort, the current state of the platform, and some future plans.
2. redhat.com | Confessions of an Eclipse convert:
As a long-time Emacs™ user, and a typical command-line-oriented UNIX® person, I was skeptical when I first heard about Eclipse™, an extensible open source integrated development environment. Even when I was working to make Eclipse run when compiled with GNU gcj, I used it primarily as a smoke test for the compiler and GNU Classpath libraries.However, I saw quite a bit of Eclipse, and I frequently heard it described as the premiere open source integrated development environment, especially for Java. So, seeing that I work on GNU Classpath, which is mostly written in Java, I decided that I would give it a serious try.
The best way I could think of to do this was an experiment: for two weeks, do all of my Classpath work in Eclipse. (Naturally I wasn't so rash as to shut down Emacs–after all, that is where I read my email.)
The original Half-Life is being comlpetely remade from scratch in the Source engine. New sounds, weapon models, character models, enemy models, textures, and maps rebuilt from the ground up. All true to the original.Check out the screenshots, the latest update looks absolutely spectacular.
