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!!

The Secrets of the Universe: LISP & Perl

Perl Best Practices in Lisbon

Yup, it’s true, september is going to be a hell of a month here at Lisbon, we already had scheduled one conference (SHiFT, which I’m helping organize), one Barcamp, and now, Damian is comming to Lisbon for a Perl Best Practices Workshop.

I hope I can make it, hearing Damian live isn’t something we can miss, so I’m eager to register and take part of it. . If you’d like to know more or even register yourself, check the workshop page.

Lisbon.pm meeting

Tonight it’s the 4th Lisbon Perl Mongers Tech Meeting, the meeting will take place at log, and as José put it, everyone is invited:

• the entrance is free;
• anyone is invited, wether they’re techies, geeks or not;
• don’t think you’ll find only guru’s there, newbies will be very welcome there;
• show up before 21:20;
• if you happen to be late, just ask the security for the Lisbon Perl Mongers meeting or ask for José Castro from log;

Check the group blog, for more information and do show up! You’ll certainly learn something new!

Bricolage 1.10.0 is Out!

Bricolage, the perl open-source content management system we use at SAPO for boosting up some of our sites (like it’sHomepage, the help/support site, two major national newspapers:DN and JN, etc.) have reached an important stage with a new version just released today! As you can attest by reading the offical announcement, there were a lot of improvements and house cleaning, To me, as bricolage system administrator and developer they are a few, very important ones, I would like to summarize here… Read the rest of this entry »

Photos from YAPC::Europe 2005

I’ve been taking some photos along this year’s YAPC, and will put them gradually online here. You can check more photos here.

YAPC::EU 2005

We arrived Braga yesterday, after a 4 hour drive from Lisbon, fortunally all went well, well almost everything, at some point we were suposed to stop at Mealhada for having dinner, but by the time the highway way out came up we as driving at high speed on the left lane, so we had to stop a bit up north at Aveiro for dinner.

I’ve been finisihing my presentation for this afternoon up until late, so I didn’t get much sleep. Which might explain why I have forgotten part of the recording stuff back at the hotel, so i’ll have to manage a way and time to get back there sometime over the morning, or no podcasts at all!

José opened the YAPC::EU, we was my colleague at log, and ever since a friend, I must tell you he is indeed one of the most funny presenters I’ve met, and he doesn’t leave that to any other else, he just presented us with the most funny openning session I’ve attended for quite sometime.

Larry Wall is speaking at this precise momment. My first impression (since it’s my first time listenning to him live) is much more richer than I might already expect! He’s covering some of perl’s communty aspects, and the second part of the presentation being a bit more technical, talking a bit about the development of the future release of Perl.

Open Source Software @ SAPO

Sapo, as an official sponsor of this year YAPC, just issued a press release about the conference, if you know portuguese you can read it here.

We’re heading for Braga in a few hours!

And I’ve just teamed up with Sebastião for recording the maximum number of sessions we can, and if we’re allowed to actually record them. All of the recording material will end up at archive.org, but more on that will follow…