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Author: Artur Ventura

  • a { outline: none; } DON’T DO IT!

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    Another usability site from the “Jakob Nielsen” school of thought. I highly disagree with them. λ

  • Skype for the iPhone

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    I’ve woken up this morning to the news that skype finally released a version for the iPhone with video chat support. Tried it, but as Engadget pointed out, quality sucks. I’ve only used a phone to laptop call, the video from the other side was looks great but the one i’m sending looks awful. See…

  • Catalina Log Reader

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    Some web applications generate lots of exceptions and dump exaggerated amounts of stacktraces. i’ve wrote a small script in perl that parses catalina.out and can remove or shorten those stacktraces and also prove some syntax highlight. Usage Start clog with: $ clog Check the last 100 lines from the log: $ clog 100 If you…

  • Clojure working and all set

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    I have been all night hacking. Result for tonight, .emacs needs cleaning. also i have some ideas about templates and component base architecture.

  • Mifi a funcionar em Portugal?

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    Para quem não conhece o mifi é um aparelho que se liga á rede 3g e permite que estejam 5 computadores ligados através do wifi. Mas infelizmente não existe nenhuma operador a oferecer este produto em Portugal. Mas como somos o pais do desenrasca, dá se a volta. Para arranjar o mifi, pode se comprar…

  • HTML5 Canvas with GWT

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    The other day I was playing Final Ninja Zero, a cool flash game. While i was swinging and firing ropes, I wondered if such a game could be written in HTML5 Canvas. After searching the net for a while, I didn’t a good framework to develop games or any graphic thing in Canvas. So I…

  • tesseract: transversing Java Domains using JavaScript

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    For those who don’t know, I’ currently working on Instituto Superior Técnico at the Fenix Project. Fenix is a web application developed to do academic administration of the entire college, from course enrollment to parking. This application is written in Java and uses a rich domain with more than 1000 distinct entities. One of the…

  • JSC : A JavaScript Object System

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    As some of you might know, I’ve been working on a personal project for last 6 months, called Possimpable (working title). This project is composed from 3 major components. Today I’m going to release some documentation about one of them. Most parts of this project are written in JavaScript, including server-side. While I was attempting…

  • ∞ – recursive photo

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    No ultimo twittlis, após umas caipirinhas e umas imperiais, decidiram tirar um foto circular. Para quem não esteve, tiraram uma foto do próximo a tirar uma foto ao seu seguinte, e assim sucessivamente. Como é chato andar a passar de pagina e fixe, fixe era adicionar umas animações panisgas, o que eu fiz foi pegar…

  • Eu e o forum da RNL

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    Hoje decidi deixar de usar o fórum da RNL. Como tal coloquei o seguinte post no forum da RNL: Caríssimos, este vai ser a ultima vez que venho ao fórum. Estou completamente farto de ter posts censurados no fórum, por motivos absolutamente idiotas. Querem ter um fórum completamente higiénico, tenham. Eu vou para o outro…