David's Raging Nexus - Latest Comments

Re: Twitter is Legion – #softbook

David Ramalho — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 08:19:31 -0000

Fixed it I have :)

Re: Twitter is Legion – #softbook

Dextro — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 04:32:04 -0000

You missed one: http://twitter.com/d3x7r0/stat... :P

Re: Twitter is Legion – #softbook

Armando Alves — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 20:37:55 -0000

Long live the #softbook :)

Re: Twitter is Legion – #softbook

David Ramalho — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 19:56:43 -0000

A culpa é da cambada de cromos que imediatamente atearam fogo com imagens :)

Re: Twitter is Legion – #softbook

Benjamim — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 18:44:34 -0000

Passei a noite a rir.

Re: “Hello World” by any other name – Part #1

David Ramalho — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:44:59 -0000

oh, I'm not scared of java, if anything one might be scared of the big infrastructural tools that usually hang around, but as a language, nop, not scrared :)

oh, on php/dbg , pecl'up xdebug and be a happy little human :)

Re: “Hello World” by any other name – Part #1

Bruno D. Rodrigues — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:46:54 -0000

It's not about doing 'x' on 'y', it's to show you that java is much more than the scary hype about enterprise and big and slow apps and a lot other crap around it. It's, today, a very powerful language with a set of powerful tools, which allows you to do both pure OOP abstraction-to-death and simple code (PHP), or extremely optimized code (C like), without loosing the tools. In my case I started my "pet project" with nginx, but when the shit started hitting the fan, I didn't feel like pulling out my gdb knowledge from 20 years ago to find out the issue. It was much easier to just redo it in java and let the tools tell me what was wrong and what to improve. And I still can't get the whole pack from any other language, much less PHP. Compile zend debugger on apache? ouch. Debug via error_log or similar? I have javascript already to suffer like that. You should really give it a go, for the kicks. Just ignore 99% of the internet about java, there's only people trying to sell you commercial libraries, or free-but-broken libraries so they can sell you the support.

Re: “Hello World” by any other name – Part #1

Dextro — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:03:17 -0000

NodeJS! It's like javascript except without the crappy dom :P

Re: “Hello World” by any other name – Part #2

David Ramalho — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:58:04 -0000

it will definitely be on the shortlist :)

Re: “Hello World” by any other name – Part #2

Rui Delgado — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:56:26 -0000

Dart. And then, be sure to provide regular feedback here ;)

Re: “Hello World” by any other name – Part #1

David Ramalho — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:56:13 -0000

there's no particular problem I need to solve right now, it's an exploratory action, doing X in Y is definitely *not* the goal of this exercise :)

Re: “Hello World” by any other name – Part #1

Bruno D. Rodrigues — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:43:50 -0000

nothing to do with lifestyle. My colleagues used to say I was doing PHP over Java. If you look today at my code, you'll say I'm doing C over Java. But it does work, with all the tools collaborating with me for a better code (junits, coverage, check style, jenkins, jprofiler, etc.). But that's my way to do it faster than nginx and at the moment am doing a peak of 2Gbps of traffic, which may or may not be limited to my mac.

Re: “Hello World” by any other name – Part #1

David Ramalho — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 07:29:52 -0000

Fret not, I'm not changing lifestyle, I just want to add some perspective, hopefully in a non-academic way. Java is a candidate, but the feeling is that it's a bit too close to home ground, but let me get my metrics right first :)

Re: “Hello World” by any other name – Part #1

MrG — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:19:17 -0000

ABAP

Re: “Hello World” by any other name – Part #1

Bruno D. Rodrigues — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:07:56 -0000

Java. And I'm being very serious. But we'll talk about it over lunch one of these days ;)

Re: Long time no write ..

David Ramalho — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:35:29 -0000

Mr. G :)

Re: Long time no write ..

David Ramalho — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:34:54 -0000

Depends on the nature of the "it"

Lovely domain btw

Re: Long time no write ..

Mrg — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:32:42 -0000

You like it rough?

Re: On startups, equity and fairness ..

David Ramalho — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 16:56:30 -0000

What he means is, Ideas by themselves are worthless, and you know where you are, there's more Great Idea (tm) bearing Portuguese than you can throw a stick at, what you don't have a lot of is people actually pursuing and bring the idea to existence.

I'm up to here (points to head) with people who come up, say they have a great idea that they are willing to "give away" in return for hard work from someone else, and still collect 80% of everything (or at least, that's the plan in their idiot - as in filled with ideas - head) :)

Re: On startups, equity and fairness ..

Bruno D. Rodrigues — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 16:48:01 -0000

Only one thing I don't agree. Albeit I agree each founder shall always get the same share, to avoid conflicts, the sentence that an idea is worthless is bullocks, specially here in Portugal. We have enough technical expertise to solve *any* (and I mean *any*) problem, to create anything we feel motivated to, but having a good idea, a really good one, is really hard to get. I could name a lot of "ideas" in Portugal that had really good implementations, but started with the wrong base. Ideas, good ones are the thing we need.

Re: A recipe for Timelapse Photography

sledgas — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 17:15:19 -0000

Just found this post..thanks. It was a great starting point. I found that gphoto2 wasn't saving the pictures on my Canon 60D AT ALL if I used --capture-image, but downloaded them to the computer just fine with --capture-image-and-download. The other problem I had was with ffmpeg. The version in openSuse 11.3 emitted an error about VOF/VOFW being too small. Had to download ffmpeg 0.6.4, change VOFW in libswscale/swscale_internal.h from 5120 to 20480 (smaller value might have worked?), and rebuild ffmpeg.

Re: Cidadania 2.0 – Citizenship 2.0 – Part #1

Ana Neves — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:41:08 -0000

:-) Thank you!
I like to think that we were able to share many different projects / examples of citizenship 2.0. Some will inspire some people; other will trigger something in other people. Hopefully everyone will have taken an idea to create something new, to improve an existing project, to participate in the project of others.

Re: Cidadania 2.0 – Citizenship 2.0 – Part #1

David Ramalho — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:26:37 -0000

No worries, if you're really going to have an online form, I'll fill it, I'm pretty sure it's better for you to process that than having to look at a piece of paper :D , correct?

As for the discussion, yes, I have at least another post standing by (and quickly, before memory really fades :) ) , you girls did a great job and citizenship is a very VERY hot trendy topic these days :)

Re: Cidadania 2.0 – Citizenship 2.0 – Part #1

Ana Neves — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:12:00 -0000

David, feedback would be really helpful. As Ana said we will be emailing link to an online feedback form. However, if you prefer to fill in the paper version and email it to us, please send it to
info at knowman dot pt
We will really appreciate it.
Oh, and thank you for documenting your thoughts and sharing them here. This will keep the dialogue going and that is the real purpose of the event

Re: Cidadania 2.0 – Citizenship 2.0 – Part #1

David Ramalho — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:42:34 -0000

Send me an address and I can deliver and/or mail it to you :) - OR I can digitize the form ?