Though i'm not the designer type, i like to follow Smashing Magazine, very nice articles, monthly wallpapers :) and much more. So, when the pre-order notice on the Smashing Book came out, i immediately subscribed.

Though the wait went on for almost four months, it finally arrived and i have been hooked on it for almost tree days. I have enjoyed every page until now, a very fine read. It covers many topics on design and usability, presenting technics and small guides. I highly recommend it!

Check it your self at Smashing Book, related links from the book Smashing Links and another happy owner with a small review at pixelflips.com.

Ramaze was used for a small web application we had to build for a college assignment (soundtape.git). It was a great experience, and for sure, if need arises, i'll use it again for any project i can squeeze it in. This post tries to be a small overview of the framework with some working examples and general overview, also keep in mind that this is my personal view and opinion on the framework. Feel free to send in corrections of any kind.

Ramaze is a small web framework built on Ruby, now split in two parts, Innate and Ramaze.

Created this little script, so i could have Growl notifications from Fluid SBB running FriendFeed. It works for the real-time version of FriendFeed (https://friendfeed.com/realtime?embed=1), haven't tested it with any others.

I'm not very used to JavaScript or jQuery, which was used for DOM parsing, so improvements and advices are welcome.

To clear the badge just click on the top blue bar, it should get it cleared.

Hope you find it useful and fortunately it won't eat your cat.

FriendFeed User Script Local

FriendFeed User Script (User Scripts.com)

Just an update to the previous post about Fluid User Style For FriendFeed.

The CSS are now reduced, there's a packed and a readable version. Also added a user style for the real time version (Mini-Window).

iPhone version Pattern: *friendfeed.com/iphone/*

Real Time Pattern: *friendfeed.com/*realtime?embed=1

Preview:

Real Time on the left, iPhone on the right

And the User Styles

When i logged into gmail (google apps version) today i was presented a new look, but couldn't find a themes tab. No problem, i'm happy with the fresh aspect.

Another goodie was, Gears support available, meaning offline email.

With all the new stuff available for Google Apps i decided to try and log on Google Reader with the Google Apps account. Good news, it worked :)

I'm quite pleased, i was waiting on some of these features for some time!

After all i managed to get the smiley on the MacBook sooner than Sunday!

It wasn't hard to get it done, just a bit scary. I always get worried opening laptops. Anyway, it was a rather easy process.

Part one (The need for patience):

The worst part was removing the monitor screws, they are really hard to access with a normal screwdriver. I believe one can find a small bended screwdriver. 

A seguinte noticia DECO adverte para atropelo de direitos na música online levou-me a escrever este post. Mais concretamente pelo o último parágrafo.

Já passei a minha fase de jovem inconsciente, com quantidades industriais de pirataria e gigas de downloads da Internet. Há já algum tempo, faço questão de adquirir o software que necessito, assim como música ou vídeo, apesar de ser da opinião que não faz sentido adquirir filmes ou séries que estão de momento a passar na TV. No final das contas, já se paga o serviço, que por sua vez, já pagou a obra. Chego à conclusão que a nível de arte (passível de duplicação) existe a ideia, e talvez por parte das companhias e não pelos artistas, que os ganhos devem ser astronómicos e vitalícios. No entanto, acho que já estou a entrar em terreno perigoso e discutível.

Zend Framework Book: Surviving The Deep End is a free book still in development. The objective is to tutor the user in a learn as you go manner.

It all started out from a series of posts entitled An Example Zend Framework Blog, which were very useful for many users starting on Zend Framework. The idea of changing those posts into a book came up, which was a very good one!

The book came to life and the progress of it can be followed here Zend Framework Book: Surviving The Deep End. The second chapter just made it’s way into the book.

Had to setup Merge Replication between SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server Compact, here's the result on a video for reference.

Anyway, don't forget all the pre-requisites, database, sql server tools, iis, etc.

You can get perceptible quality by following "vimeo" link and downloading the original.

Enjoy!