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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.

FoxTab – 3D effects in your web browser

João Morais — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 20:37:05 +0000

Last week I’ve found FoxTab a Firefox extension that brings 3D effects into your web browser.

It allows you to switch through opened tabs with a combination of keys (like you usually do in your operating system to switch through opened programs).

I’ve been using for a couple of days now and it’s been working great. It is really useful when you have 20 tabs opened inside a window and you want so select a specific one. It also has a lot of options and customizable environments which is a plus.

Because a picture is worth more than a thousand words here is a link to FoxTab homepage, image gallery included, and a video on YouTube which illustrates it’s usage.

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.

Content Management System (CMS)

João Morais — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 08:10:50 +0000

In the past few days I’ve been reading a lot of reviews about Content Management Systems (CMS) at OpenSourceCMS. Great site by the way, lots of useful informations in there.

Although the site above has a lot of informations it’s really hard to find a CMS that fits your needs, most of the people who use this kind of tools are regular users and their main goal is to install and manage the CMS with success.

That way most of the reviews that I’ve found are written without a developers perspective.

At the moment I need to find a CMS that is Open Source, written in PHP under a Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern, that has some good support/documentation and a big community behind it.

Till now, the only one that I found that fulfills the specs above is Joomla! Unfortunately I’ve already read some bad reviews on it, saying that it’s too complex and it’s code is a bit messy.

I’ll keep on searching, but in the next few days I’ll have to make a decision so that I can start working.

If you have any useful informations on this subject please tell me something.

Test your web design in different browsers

João Morais — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:41:21 +0000

How many times have you thought: “Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a tool where I could test my website layout, and see how it appears in different browsers..” ?

Well I’ve got news for you!

The tool you’ve been waiting for already exists, or at least something similar to what you (I) have expected.

It’s name is Browsershots and it’s main goal is to take screenshots of your website in different browsers running on different operating systems.