Yes we do eat.

Besides the fact that I am a software developer, I do eat. I even enjoy doing so. Specially when I’m traveling.
That’s why i decided to put up a new weblog only for this kind of stuff - it’s called Travel tips - food & stuff. Basically for friends and whoever else might be interested.
There I [...]

A couple of things from here…

It’s been some time since my last post but here I am! Where? In Spain, of course! Having a great time, I must say.
I arrived last week in Madrid and the past 2 weeks before that I spent basically packing my stuff. There is still some paperwork going on but everything is flowing well.
Besides this [...]

Time to reveal

Some of you may know. Some of you may not. Some of you may find weird. And most of you probably have no idea of what I’m talking about but the thing is: This is a year of big changes for me.
I’ve been hired by Mirai, a Spanish company located in Madrid, to work as [...]

QCon 2008: London

Next week I’ll be at QCon, in London, so if any of you are going to the conference and would like meet up for a couple of beers and a tech talk, please don’t hesitate to drop a message.
For those of you who have never heard of QCon before, it is a really nice event [...]

Why every programmer has to be dumb?

At least, dumb for the companies hiring them. The old dream is still for sale out there: Build a “I do everything framework” and hire a bunch of dumb programmers - monkeys? - and you shall make money easily!
Just put some button pressers and a full featured enterprise system will be waiting on the other [...]

Language change

Well, talking with some friends, I decided that, from now on, I shall only write in english on this blog.
Of course some of you may not like it. But I think it has more advantages than the other way around.  I have some friends around the world, including people from the U.S., Spain, Italy, China, [...]

Enquanto isso, em Portugal…

Pois bem, saí do Rio hoje rumo a Madrid, com escala em Lisboa.
A essa hora já estaria por lá…. mas no momento estou no aeroporto de Lisboa esperando o próximo vôo, visto que perdi a conexão! Acontece até na europa! :p
Em teoria o embarque é daqui a 1h:30min…
Os portugueses são muito atenciosos btw!
Até a próxima!