Intermission I haven’t posted in a while. It’s interesting how these things happen. Years ago, I used to be able to whip out a post of some kind in any of the blogs I maintained easily. The reasons for the lack of that now are multiple. The usual “I’m busy” applies, but it’s more than […]
Continue reading →As must be more or less clear from the new link in this website’s navigation, I have a new portfolio site online. Some may question the need for a programmer to have a portfolio. Well, to me, my work has always been very visual. In many of the projects I’ve been involved, I had a […]
Continue reading →I may like charts too much. A while ago, I created a chart depicting all the programming platforms I’ve had used over the years: This was initially created mostly to illustrate the fact that the fall in popularity of Flash and ActionScript wasn’t a surprising event – technologies constantly come and go – but when […]
Continue reading →The BASIC language is now 50 years old. TIME Magazine has a cool article on it and how it came to be. When I started using computers, first with a ZX81 clone, then an Apple II clone, and then a MSX 1.0 clone, BASIC was the only thing that I knew exusted. It was synonym […]
Continue reading →As of tomorrow, June 25th, I’ll have been in New York for four years. I wrote a little bit about the experience shortly after arriving in the city, as much as a reminder for myself and as a way to explain my point of view to friends. I don’t like the idea of that lingering […]
Continue reading →About 20 years ago, I was reading a Daredevil comic book story and it mentioned the neighborhood where most of the story takes place. It was called Hell’s Kitchen, and it translates to “Cozinha do Inferno” in Brazilian Portuguese (the language of the comic I was reading it in). I thought that was a funny name and had […]
Continue reading →Roughly 17 years ago, I was in love with QuickBasic. After a while using GWBasic (not to mention years of using BASIC on other systems, such as the Brazilian Sinclair ZX81 clone TK-85, the MSX 1.0, and the Apple II), QuickBasic was a real milestone in my life. It was when I changed from using […]
Continue reading →Note: this post is in Brazilian Portuguese. Its contents – in which I talk about a presentation I’ve given a couple of days ago – are only important for people who live in Brazil, and as such, I’m opening another exception and writing in my own language. Sorry, everybody else. If you want, there’s a […]
Continue reading →Note: this post is in Brazilian Portuguese. Its contents – in which I ask for suggestions about an upcoming presentation I’ll give – are only important for people who live in Brazil, and as such, I’m opening an exception and writing in my own language. Sorry, everybody else. If you want, there’s a translation here. […]
Continue reading →This week I’ll be working from Campus Party, so for the curious, I’ll be doing small twitter updates (mostly in Brazilian Portuguese) from there. I won’t do any kind of live coverage or public reporting or anything, since I’ll be there mostly to see friends (in the Games area) though, but if anyone else is […]
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