“Martelada” is the Portuguese word for what browser engines have to do to deal with the Web. The Web is broken in ways no one can imagine. I recently got involved in writing a small program to clone web pages and had to deal with rudimentary manual html parsing. Did you knew that: Yahoo!’s Homepage refers to URLs in anchors without parenthesis or apostrophes just to spare a few bytes (and then they have a huge 30k banner at the same time) in the form ?…

I’m actively looking for .Mac alternatives. Being a satisfied .Mac subscriber since I have my Powerbook to sync my personal data between my work and my house in a efficiently and no-fuss way, I can’t help to feel that lately Apple is pushing it too much, and I don’t like it. .Mac is no more no less than a huge Webdav server and remote storage, everything else is rendered and published by your local computer.…

The thread about the P990i made me think about the fast evolution in mobile technology and I became nostalgic. This was my first mobile phone. The stunning GA628 with 125 hours talk time, SMS and just 160g weight. What was yours ?…

I just tried to compile speirs’s Fotobilder iPhoto Plugin to use a modified version of our internal (SAPO’s) API, and translate it to Portuguese. So I downloaded the beta from XCode2.2 and gave it try. The last time I used a graphical IDE was on the glorious Amiga days, with the famous SAS/C compiler. I long adopted the trusty portable gnu utils/bash/gnumake/vi IDE. So I was relutant. But XCode is beautiful.…

It’s old news for Internet standards but Google Talk has opened their server (not the service yet). Enough to confirm it’s XMPP/Jabber. I was able to use my Gmail account both with Psi, iChat and AdiumX (libgaim based so all clients based on GAIM should work). Works with plain 5222 connections but you need TLS (Gaim clients and iChat support that) Works with SSL 5223 with any client, including Psi. You need to set “allow plain passwords” if your client has that option.…