We used to call them users

Yesterday I’ve assisted to the Conversas Unicer (an informal meeting organized and sponsored by Unicer a major beverage player in Portugal) where Bruno Giussani was the main speaker and some very well knowned portuguese bloggers (Maria João Nogueira, António Granado, Luís Paixão Martins, Eduardo Correia, Paulo Ferreira and Paulo Querido) joined in in yesterday’s conversation.

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SHiFT 2008

It’s true, SHiFT is back!. We almost died on our first ’round’ in 2006 but we decided to do it again and today we just gave the first (public) step towards it: we’ve unleashed the dates – set your calendars:

A lot of work, discussion and planning will take place in the coming months, so EVERYONE is invited to help and participate in the discussion! We haven’t closed down the speakers list and there will be space for the community to vote on who gets to go up on stage later on, but if you know an exciting speaker or you’re just wishing your secret hero to be there, don’t be shy and let us know!
Pop us an email over at speakers@shift.pt.

Don’t forget to keep an eye on the official Blog, or subscribe SHiFT’s Twitter / jaiku feeds.

See you back in October!

Centopeia on iPhone

Following a tip from Mark, this blog is now fully iPhone compatible! All it took was to install a very nifty Wordpress plugin – iWPhone. So if you’re the lucky owner of an iPhone just tried it out, you should see something along this:

  

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SAPO CODE BITS

Well, SHiFT isn’t happening this year… and yeah, believe me no one’s more sad about it than myself, well may two other crazy guys! But we couldn’t stand still so we’re helping SAPO in an astonishing event:

and trust me, we’re all aiming high, as high as we’re allowed to get all the Portuguese developers an amazing event, party and mash-ups contest!

The event is obviously inspired in the Yahoo Hackday which totally contagious us back in May in London when some of us managed to attend it. Since not all Portuguese can afford traveling as far, SAPO decided to recreate it!

We’re trying to include everyone that wishes to go, but since the seats are limited, I urge everyone who praises for his/her geekiness without shame to register at:

Time as come for all of you geeks in the closet to come out, so I really hope we can all meet up in November in Lisbon!!

RailsConf Europe 2007 (Personal Notes)

UPDATE: I’ve also uploaded some pics to flickr, and the presentations are already being put online at the railsconf homepage.

As promissed I’ve been writing down a lot of notes (on paper) from the conference itself, which I’ll put online later! For now, you could check some of my non-edited notes from the presentations I’ve attend so far:

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XFN: the relationships Microformat

My inner geek rejoices with the fact that Microformats have finally got a little more buzz lately! One particular Microformat I’ve been using is XFN (Xhtml Friends Network), aka the Relationships Microformats. This particular Microformat allows me to easily state the sort of relation I have with other people and for instance the blogs I link to.

Yesterday I was discussing with a colleague about whether she should or shouldn’t use them on her upcoming service and although to me the question had a dead simple question, convincing her and others wasn’t as simple as I expected!

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SHiFT

SHiFT website was just unveiled: http://www.shift.pt, and in it people will find a whole lot of information about it, like dates (28/29th September), place and much more. Check it out:

Filmloops…

… are a funny thing to have on blogs! FilmLoops allow us to share photos without having to post them, or all the thumbnails in a post, which is a rather boring thing to do.

I’ve read about them on the Guy Kawasaki Blog, but only yesterday I’ve noticed the blog posting feature and I decided to give it a try! Started with some nice pictures I’ve taken yesterday on “Estufa Fria” (a beautifull garden in the heart of Lisbon) followed the simple steps, and here’s the result:

Nice, isn’t it?
A simple idea comming out of this, would be to have something similiar in effect, but that could harvest the pictures from a simple pictures feed, something like a new version of Fotos screensaver, hein?