default: break;

After many months of happily ignoring Silverlight, I just learned that you can use (Iron)Ruby to develop Silverlight applications. Neat!

All you need is the Dynamic Languages SDK and your set to go.

I'll give it a spin after I play around with MacRuby.

Two weeks ago I filed a bug report on NetBeans tracker, regarding a bug on the J2EE Project Deployment process which consisted in the incorrect undeployment & deployment of different projects that only shared name prefixes.

I am quite happy to see that the bug was quickly reproduced, fixed and applied to the main development branch for version 6.5 -- that little bastard cost me an afternoon's work of bug-hunting and some application downtime. Nothing critical but still...

Glad to see it fixed. It was a one-liner :)

Stories of David and Goliath are common, almost a cliché. The weak, outnumbered, against the almighty giant, a true fairy tale of old and current days.

Goliath struck us a couple of weeks ago, incarnated as T-Mobile. The telecommunications giant apparently holds a Community Trademark on the color magenta and has a track record of intimidating anyone who bares close to their online and offline presence.

It seems that Belacena.com uses a certain tone of magenta that slightly resembles T-Mobile’s logo and trademark color.

As any enlightened person can tell, these are clearly different colors, sites and businesses but that did not stop Goliath from emailing, faxing and fedexing us a letter asking for our acknowledgement that:

1. several elements on our website (belacena.com) as well as the corresponding logo are shown in a color identical or at least very similar to the color magenta;
2. The color magenta is a core element of Deutsche Telekom AG’s corporate identity;
3. T-Mobile offers, among others, a full range of internet based services, such as “inter alia video and music download” (wtf?) services, which overlap the field of database services provided by “belacena.com”, thus promoting a possible misallocation by Internet users of the services provided by us to Deutsche Telekom AG.

Being a hobby of ours, belacena.com has barely proven profitable and none of us has quit our day job because of it. Still, we are honored that such a high-profile telco has spotted us on their radar and has considered our service as a threat to their services. Such a compliment has given us much joy and we hope that they pursue their interests, as we will continue to pursue ours.

We have planned a few changes to our website, none of them derived from this episode. In the meantime, I leave you with an appropriate song:

Some of you may be aware that my blog is now on it's fourth iteration.

It all started on Blogger in july 2003, with the name Cá & Lá. Back then, I wrote mainly in Portuguese and published some pseudo-intellectual posts, some of which don't make much sense to me now but I guess I'll have to keep them online if I want to maintain some sort of integrity.

In September 2005, looming my year-long move to Lisbon, I moved to WordPress and started a very prolific period that endured throughout 12 months. I guess loneliness motivated me to write more and about different subjects.

Then lazyness ensued until...

A recent surge of motivation enabled me to try out Typo, a Rails blog-oriented CMS but I quickly realized that Dreamhost does not have a production environment stable enough to host it.

As I've been involved in the last few months with a couple of Drupal projects, I've decided to migrate all my content to it

I'm quite satisfied with how it is turning out and up until now I've only got good things to say about this little CMS.

Catarina asked me to put this up...

Exmo(a). Sr(a).,

Temos a honra de convidar V. Exa. a assistir à Inauguração do Centro de Empreendedorismo da Universidade dos Açores e à Conferencia “Conhecimento, Inovação, Empreendedorismo e Governancia” proferida pelo Eng. Belmiro de Azevedo, no próximo dia 29 de Setembro, Segunda-feira, a partir das 10:00 horas, na Universidade dos Açores.

Contamos com a Sua Presença.

Com as Melhores Saudações Empreendedoras,

Gualter Couto e Carlos Faias