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Job Opportunities at DRI

João Morais — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:35:22 +0000

DRI – Open Solutions for Open Minds is currently recruiting people with the following three profiles:

1. Interactive Designer
2. Manager of Quality Tests
3. Web Engineer

If you have the required capabilities, feel free to get in contact through the email address supplied in each profile.

Do you know your girlfriend’s parents?

João Morais — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:46:24 +0000

Do you know your girlfriend’s parents? Have you ever thought how g33k they are? After watching the video below you’ll see what I mean.

Facelift

João Morais — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:09:29 +0000

As you should have noticed the blog suffered some changes since the last time you were here, probably a long time ago, since I haven’t updated nothing for a while now.

The truth is that I have been absent for some time, to be exact since 6th January 2008, largely due to the University and some extra works.

Since then a lot of things has happened, to summarize: Currently I am finishing the second semester of my Master degree in Computer Science Engineering and at the moment I just have one job to deliver, and that allows me some free time to update the blog, present you with a new facelift and write something new in here.

This facelift was mostly sponsored by Woo Themes. I’m currently using Irresistible theme which I think is great, I’ve made some minor tweaks in colors and structure.

As soon as my sister has the time needed to draw a nice new logo I’ll replace the default one.

Hope you enjoy this new layout and that from now on I’ll write more often. If you notice something strange, with this new theme and/or functionalities please report it.

CodePlay – The Computer Scientist

João Morais — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:26:32 +0000

If you’re a fan of Coldplay and some kind of geek programmer lives inside of you, for sure that you will love the video below.

Great lyrics by the way!

You can also see the video on youtube in here.

Last.fm

João Morais — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 10:26:30 +0000

As some of you know I’m not a big fan of having lots of MP3 in my laptop, and those of you who don’t know me may ask: don’t you hear any music while you’re at your laptop?

Of course I do, listen to music is one of my favorite hobbies and I do it almost 24/7, most of the times I listen to online radios.

Yesterday while I was talking with Luís Silva, he suggested me Last.fm, and what a great website it is!

You can listen all your favorite artists, with a single click. One thing that made me very happy was to find some of the best Portuguese rappers, such as Valete, Sam The Kid and Xeg.

While you listen to a specific music you are presented with some informations about the artist and the album.

Last.fm is already saved in my bookmarks.

Hug a developer today!

João Morais — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:03:10 +0000

I’m not a big fan of posting videos in my blog, but today I’m opening an exception for this one, only because it touched my heart!

If you are a developer you’ll understand my words and see what I mean.

You can also see the video on blip.tv in here.

You know that you’re getting old when…

João Morais — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 02:52:48 +0000

After reading this post by Edgar Durão I’ve felt a bit nostalgic, because I share the same exact feelings as him. Later I’ve decided to write my own list of Cartoons/TV Series that I used to watch while I was a kid.

Fortunately some of them are now available in DVD in a store near you, that way you can always remember the good old times and think about how old you are getting.

Cartoons/TV Series that I watched while I was a kid:

For sure that I am forgetting some great Cartoons/TV Series, but these were the ones I could remember and that I found with a couple of clicks in youtube, if I remember more I’ll add them later.

OpenID

João Morais — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:23:46 +0000

If you use a lot of different online services in which you have to identify yourself, supplying an username and password, for sure that you have forgot sometime your login informations for a service that you don’t use often.

And when this happens you start thinking like me, if it wouldn’t be nice if you could have one login for every service that you use, that way you could avoid memory failures.

Now we have OpenID, a free and easy way to use a single digital identity across the internet that solves all your problems.

At the moment OpenID is already being used in a couple of popular websites such as MySpace.

As a developer you can help this project to grow by having support to OpenID in your own projects, you can read about it in here.

Wanted

João Morais — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 09:23:53 +0000

For a couple of weeks now I’ve been waiting to watch this movie, finally last night I had the chance to do it.

When I saw the trailer it reminded me of Matrix, with a lot of futuristic tricks.. but now that I’ve seen the movie, I can honestly say that it is a bit surreal and in my opinion a bit exaggerated.

The story is about a frustrated office worker who learns that he is the son of a professional assassin, and that he shares his father’s superhuman killing abilities.

Read full summary here.

Fur TV

João Morais — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:05:33 +0000

Do you remember The Muppets?

Well.. Fur TV is composed by some seriously bad ass puppets! I saw the commercials last weekend and got a bit curious of what this show was all about.

Yesterday I had the chance to see it’s first episode at MTV Portugal, and it was really cool, these are puppets for adults.

It’s story is based on three characters that live in the human world and are up to anything.

You can watch the episode that I’ve seen yesterday in here.