After some years here it’s time to move on, this blog has moved to a new home in a self-hosted platform, so please update your links to:

http://joaoalmeida.info

This address will remain available as an archive in read-only mode, but all comments here will be ignored!

Just updated the blog to its fourth incarnation, which means I’ve updated the blog’s theme once again. Probably it’s just me but I like it a lot, it’s clean and minimal, even if I get bored of it in a few months.  

[update] there some glitches in the single post view yet to be solved. 

…And now some eye-candy, a teaser for a new user interface from Microsoft, to be released next year, where everything is done just by touch. Literally!…

Technorati tags: microsoft, surface

This blog is continuously evolving, call it Kaizen meets the blogosphere, so I decided it was time to release a few more RSS feeds, as some of my friends find subjects like Scrum or J2EE a bit boring. Now there are separate feeds for each main subject of this blog. Yes, I could create a blog for each of these subjects, but that would result in too much work and too many links to manage.

And now a little bonus: a feed that combines all my main photo galleries in one place, the result of my initial explorations with Yahoo Pipes.

All of these feeds are available in the Feeds section just below (just find the little orange icon).

Technorati Tags: yahoo, pipes, kaizen

This was on last week’s report that the guys at mon.itor.us, the free monitoring service that takes care all of my web sites and blogs, sent me.

63.43% is not good… 

…And the worst thing is that my photoblog had an uptime of 99,80% (courtesy of Dreamhost).

I know Blogsome is a free blog host and I’m actually paying for the hosting in Dreamhost, but 63,43% is not good… 

Because some people don’t understand why some other people should spend so much time building a robust solution for a web form with just a couple of text boxes.

Because some people don’t understand column A must allways be on the left of column B, and that’s a non-negociable issue…

Let the Experts Make the Decisions (Agile Advice)

Yes, I decided to change the look of this blog once again.

Red Train is a cool theme, but it’s too "strong" for this blog and I was trying to find someting that would blend a bit better with my other sites: TemujinPhoto and TemujinPhoto|Blog, so I went for this one, much more cleaner and simple than the previous.

Your feedback will be gladly received.

A handy list of things not to be done in exception handling:

Exception Handling Antipatterns

Technorati Tags: exception handling, antipatterns

Kubrick is a fine looking theme for Wordpress but it’s way too common, so it’s time for something new.

…and this time in red!

The goth metal band Moonspell is working quite hard these days, while recording the new album a DVD is being prepared and their site is being relaunched. Actually it"s not one, but a group of separated sites, globally called Infernet, to fit each of the perspectives of the band. For now it’s just the new forum, in which I’m a proud moderator, and a blog, probably one of the best looking I’ve seen lately. Even if you’re not a fan of the band, or even the genre, it’s worth a visit!!

Current music: Moonspell, “As we eternally sleep on it”

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