Eu confesso que sou pro-”qualquer um que em vez de se lamuriar meta mãos à obra” mesmo que o dito cujo acerte ao lado uma vez ou outra. O saldo dos determinados é sempre a média dos seus sucessos e insucessos, e normalmente é sempre positivo, é sempre melhor do que reclamar e nenhum fazer. E é por isso que não sou de políticas. Mesmo sendo deformado por uma educação mais à direita do que à esquerda (seja lá o que isso for), é com a maior das naturalidades que entre amigos tenho elogiado uma série de medidas do actual governo e de alguns ministros que têm tido a coragem de executar decisões difíceis e impopulares nas mais diversas áreas da nossa sociedade.…

Today, a particularly stressful day at work, a came across several E-Mail and IM threads about Google Gears with my friends and colleagues. I finally had the time to look into it more seriously and I feel I should point out that I don’t share the global excitement everyone seems to suffer from. Google Gears anticipates what browsers should have already and clones what Zimbra envisioned months ago, I fail to understand the wow effect, really.…

This is worth a note. After almost two years of development we’re finally gone public with our SAPO Messenger for Mac and are going high-profile on it. It’s been one of the must fun projects on the company, much to be learned from it (a making-of story is a must on this one, I’m convincing João, Pedro and the rest of the crowd to make one). The project is also Opensourced, also one of the biggest commitments and investments we’ve made with the community so far.…

Everybody knows Yahoo is doing it’s European version of Hackday in London in early June. I’ve seen Yahoo’s presentation about the US version on eTech and it clicked on me. It’s a great idea for a variety of reasons: Team and company morale boost, tell the outside world what you have, image building amongst the developers community, a great way to find new talent and eventually recruit some, a free test-bed for your infra-structure and APIs, and a great environment for new ideas.…

So don’t ask how (or why) but I got my hands on the Apple TV for a week now. Much has been said about this cute living room apple fruit, but maybe the hacker’s perspective hasn’t gone into much analysis yet. Hacking was the trigger for me. I wasn’t convinced by the iLife sync stuff nor the HDMI output, but the enormous list of hacks during the first week, while I was in San Diego, clicked on me.…