August 2010
7 posts
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MongoMapper & Mongoid
I decided to give MongoDB a try on a brand new rails project. It was also a change to get a bit familiar with the upcoming Rails 3 (there’s a release candidate now \o/).
I found two MongoDB adapters for rails: MongoMapper and Mongoid. Here’s an article with a comparison (thanks Tomé Duarte). After trying out the two on a really simple use case, I preferred working with Mongoid for 3...
July 2010
10 posts
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Made to Stick
Made to Stick, by Chip and Dan Heath, is a book on how to promote your ideas so they “stick” on people’s heads. The authors analyse why some ideas are catchy while others quickly forgotten, and present the key features an idea must have to be “sticky”. Those features, coined under the acronym SUCCESs, are:
Simple Find the core of your message and focus...
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Coimbra Directory →
Companies innovating in Coimbra
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Bringing Nothing To The Party
Read this book some months ago. Paul Carr, who is now blogs at TechCrunch, writes about his “not-entirely-successful” adventures as entrepreneur. You can download it for free.
More than anything, it’s an entertaining reading. The author hasn’t what you could call a perfect character, and that adds much to the plot. If after reading it, you get curious about...
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NoSQL, Rails and MongoDB
After some research on NoSQL databases, for a future rails project, the projects that caught my attention were:
Tokyo Cabinet
CouchDB
MongoDB
I’ve spent some more time MongoDB. Their list of prodution deployments is impressive. John Nunemaker developed an adapter for ruby, the MongoMapper, which already supports some neat features like validations and callbacks, much on the ActiveRecord...
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life @ coimbra →
I’ve created another tumblr (the last, I promise), this time to share music, trips and more random thoughts. It will be in Portuguese though. Hope you enjoy it =)
“You can’t afford to be number two, or to have a “good enough”...”
– Hitting the High Notes by Joel Spolsky
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New website(s)
In order to increase the frequency of my posts, I’ve changed this blog to a Tumblr account. I hope the service’s simplicity helps.
Meanwhile, I’ve been accumulating project ideas, clearly too many for me. So I opened up another Tumblr where I can dump them, and where they might inspire others. It’s called Ideas Notebook. Go check it out.