NunoProspero

1 October 2008. Time for a blog change.
I got tired of the previous theme and decided to make it by myself, keeping WordPress as the main engine (got wp-plugin addicted). The transparency are my favourite parts, however, older browsers won’t show it correctly. It is still in beta, so any suggestions are welcome

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Stay tuned!

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The United States House of Representatives rejected the $700 billion bail out plan, leading to a 777.68 point drop on the Dow Jones index. I never saw the Bloomberg/CNBC reporters so excited!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Monday_(September_2008)

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Interested in publishing your ESRI Shapefiles to Google Earth? Or converting KML files to SHP files? I found this nice freeware tool called KML2SHP which solves your problem. Free download here:
http://www.zonums.com/kml2shp.html

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Music, music… one of my expressions of art.
This guy, Charlie Parker, invited me to the fabulous world of Jazz. His music is contagious and it’s hard to be indifferent: either you love it or you hate it! And it’s so thrilling to learn about the players’ life and relate it to the songs…
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Have you read the Ten principles that contribute to a Googley user experience?

Focus on people – their lives, their work, their dreams.
Every millisecond counts.
Simplicity is powerful.
Engage beginners and attract experts.
Dare to innovate.
Design for the world.
Plan for today’s and tomorrow’s business.
Delight the eye without distracting the mind.
Be worthy of people’s trust.
Add a human touch.

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Opera has just lauched Dragonfly! Today!!
I’ve been waiting for a decent javascript/css debugger…
http://www.opera.com/products/dragonfly/

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I’ve playing around with the Google Maps API and I like it. Well documented, with nice examples. The question is: what’s the next step? How can I create value from it?
I’ve noticed a little tiny annoying bug: if you want to have more than one map with directions, you have to put them in the same [...]

I’ve been digging for a long time in this framework: CakePHP. Nothing new here, I just wanted to shout that I love working at the bakery!

After many projects in web apps, mainly using PHP, I’ve noticed the huge amount of time that any developer spends creating support structures – such as: database connection, reading/writing data, form validation, [...]

Today I watched one of my favourite TED presentations. It mixes some of my favourite topics, nowadays: data visualization and social networks. It’s almost a crazy dream to think that someday, everything you upload to the internet will be connected to the semantic web. You will be able to upload your holiday pictures and they will be tagged automatically. [...]