Archive for February, 2008

Summer School CDDIP 2008, Struer, Denmark – Selected!

I was selected for all paid trip Struer (Denmark) representing University of Minho – Portugal in the Summer School CDDIP 2008 Erasmus IP program. As far as I know at least five lucky Portuguese students will attend.
But what is CDDIP? CDDIP stands for Conceptual Design and Development of Innovative Products and the goal is [...]

links for 2008-02-27

Learn CSS Positioning in Ten Steps: position static relative absolute float
umn layout using relative and absolute positioning!
(tags: css positioning tutorial webdesign layout design howto web development)

Selectors
:after
(tags: css reference selectors w3c webdesign web html design)

Clearing a float container without source markup
his float no longer protrudes out of the containing box, with no extra clearing element used [...]

XForms for metadata creation

So guess what. Someone else is thinking like me and did a work that relates in someway to my previous screen-cast. I really wonder what they thinks about it. Here’s the very nice presentation:
found @ planetxforms
[slideshare id=278005&doc=xforms-for-metadata-creation-1203728172339152-2&w=425]

METS Standard with IBM DB2 Express C using XForms as user-interface and Ruby on Rails as a Rest Web-services

HIGH QUALITY VERSION DOWNLOAD HERE
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-0dvJJXQOA]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMvqV8OBTjQ]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQHXMkLYFoM]
Well, here is the long promised screen-cast. The amount of topics covered is simply huge. To get you ready for the screen-cast I prepared some other more introductory screen-cast as well as some articles on these subjects. I’m sorry that I don’t have the time to document the REST, but [...]

links for 2008-02-25

RubyForge: Rails Adapter/Driver for IBM Databases: help
Using IBM_DB driver with Rails2.0 problems
(tags: ibm db2 rubyonrails rails ruby development ibm_db adapter)

links for 2008-02-24

DB2 and Ruby on Rails, Part 1: Getting started with DB2 and Ruby on Rails
(tags: database db2 developerworks rails ruby rubyonrails ibm)

MacOSaiX – Mosaics for Mac OS X
(tags: application applications apps creativity design download editor art osx mac photography mosaic)

Zen and the Art of Ruby Programming
(tags: cangiano python blogs rubyonrails rails programming blog ruby db2 [...]

Problema resolvido: NetworkContacto, As candidaturas estão abertas

Como viram andava aborrecido com o facto de não me conseguir candidatar ao programa. Bem parece que o problema está resolvido.
Para quem não sabe o NetworkContacto é um programa de estágios internacionais financiados dentro da comunidade europeia. Existem programas parecidos para, por exemplo, fazer estágio no Japão (Vulcanus in Japan).
Boas candidaturas e viagens

XmlSimple?

[sourcecode language="ruby"]
>> xml_plain = %q(
Just a p on bold
)
=> “
Just a p on bold

>> xml_hash = XmlSimple.xml_in xml_plain,
‘ForceArray’ => true
=> {”strong”=>["p"], “content”=>["Just a ", " on bold"]}
>> xml_plain2 = XmlSimple.xml_out xml_hash,
‘RootName’ => ‘p’
=> “
\n p\n Just a \n on bold\n
\n”
[/sourcecode]
Não querendo ser malvado com quem fez esta [...]

links for 2008-02-21

METS: Introdução & Tutorial: Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) OfficialWeb Site
(tags: mets introduction xml portugues standard)

PORQUE????

Não consigo compreender porque é que o governo continua a gastar dinheiro em soluções proprietárias que nem sequer separam o ambiente de development do ambiente de deployment.
Para fazer um formulário é preciso usar ASP? Não podiam ter usado LAMP ou Ruby on Rails? E acima de tudo não o podiam ter feito isto _direito_ [...]