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Balanço tecnológico de uma década

Mais uma vez encontro um post interessante no blog do Celso Martinho, director do portal sapo.pt. Faz um balanço de 2000 a 2010 de um ponto de vista tecnológico, baseado nos emails trocados nesse período. Destaques:

Sapo de mãos dadas com o recém-nascido Google;
Telepac, Netc, Esotérica, Teleweb, IP Global e Oni eram os ISPs da altura. Já [...]

[ More ] January 18th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in tech |

Parábola sobre Gestão de Projectos

Em verdade, em verdade vos digo que este pequeno vídeo ilustra muita coisa sobre o tópico…

Build An Airplane In The Air – Watch the top videos of the week here

[ More ] October 25th, 2009 | 1 Comment | Posted in tech |

Carro do Google Street View em Lisboa

Desta vez fui eu que vi o carro
Pausa de almoço, estacionado aqui na Avenida de Berna, Lisboa, em frente à Faculdade de Ciências Sociais.
Alguns detalhes de dentro do carro:

no banco da frente, está instalado um computador c/ teclado, para monitorização das ruas a “varrer”;
nos bancos de trás, entre bolachas e batatas fritas, várias [...]

[ More ] October 20th, 2009 | 1 Comment | Posted in life, tech |

World Map of Social Networks

Algumas ideias soltas:

Domínio global do facebook;
Portugal é o refúgio europeu do hi5;
Brasil e Índia com Orkut;
China tem a sua própria rede;
Rússia e outros países da ex-URSS partilham uma rede;
Mais de metade de África nem sequer aparece no mapa…

[ More ] October 8th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in dataviz |

Infographics about the Web

In this article, you’ll discover a variety of infographics and visualizations associated with the internet. You might just learn a thing or two about the web by looking at these awesome artworks!

[ More ] September 22nd, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in dataviz, webdev |

Converting KML to SHP or SHP to KML

You can use many different free tools (such as Zonum Solutions or ArcScripts) to convert from Keyhole Markup Language (KML) to ESRI Shapefile (SHP) and vice-versa.
The best advice I can give you is keeping on thing in mind: Google Earth only reads and writes KML/KMZ using the WGS 1984 coordinate system. That means that:

If you [...]

[ More ] June 14th, 2009 | 2 Comments | Posted in tech |

SQL Server vs Access

How to import data from SQL Server 2005 to Microsoft Access throw VBA code? Quite simple. The problem is finding the correct SQL connection string:
DoCmd.TransferDatabase acImport, “ODBC”, _
“ODBC;DRIVER=SQL Server;” & _
“UID=username;” & _
“DATABASE=databasename;” & _
“SERVER=server;” & _
“PWD=password“, acTable, “table1“, “table1_copy“, False, True
I lost so many hours figuring out what the hell did “Could not find [...]

[ More ] June 14th, 2009 | 1 Comment | Posted in tech |

Bing! A New Search Engine Arises

Microsoft has finally brought up to the search engine market a nice product called Bing in order to replace the Live Search. Thought the strange name, this search engine display some nice results.

There is a comparison site called Blind Search where you can submit a query to Google, Bing and Yahoo but you won’t be [...]

[ More ] June 12th, 2009 | 3 Comments | Posted in tech, webdev |

File Format Caos

Hey, ESRI and Autodesk, what about using a common open source file format instead of your own formats?
That you simplify the  interoperability and make everything more simples…
For instance: how to convert a DWG file to an ESRI SHP shapefile? Well, first idea: google it, download a trial (you won’t find it for free…) and buy it [...]

[ More ] February 18th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in tech |

Visual Complexity

Yet another post about visual representation. Nowadays, there is so much data available that is hard to filter which information might be useful in a decision-making process. One of the computer engineering topics that I’m keen on is visual representation of tons of data. I love to see the projects present on this site because [...]

[ More ] January 27th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in tech |
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