JPCosta

Chrząszcz significa escaravelho/barata.

Na língua deste lindo país onde eu estou, há toda uma nova panóplia de sons capazes de causar hérnias na língua ao aprendiz incauto. Deparei-me com tal palavra recentemente que tem fama de ser uma das mais difíceis de pronunciar, mesmo para os Polacos. Houve até um autor que que em honra de tal palavra escreveu um bonito poema (que também pode ser escutado na lingua original).

Se eu vos dissesse:
- Na Polónia tudo o que passa na TV é em Polaco.
Vocês podiam muito ignenuamente responder:
- Grande coisa João.. Em Portugal tudo o que passa na TV é em Português.
E estariam muito redondamente enganados. Aquilo que eu quero dizer é: na Polónia, 99,9% dos filmes que passam na TV são dobrados em Polaco, e esta situação deixa-me profundamente irritado, de tal forma que outro dia estava tão chateado que… que… desliguei a televisão e não a vou voltar a ligar tão cedo.

Numa nota positiva, alguém me disse que as televisões polacas estão a considerar adoptar um mecanismo altamente inteligente para resolver este problema. É um mecanismo tecnológico desenvolvido em Cuba nos anos 70 e que se chama “legendas”!

Cheguei ao fim do curso, deu-me uma coisa e mudei-me para a Polónia. Devo dizer que contribuiu muito para este acontecimento os 6 meses que passei na Eslováquia (em Erasmus) e o facto de nesse tempo ter conhecido uma Polaca que me deu a volta à cabeça

Andei uns tempos à procura de trabalho, e devo dizer que não foi tão fácil como pensei à partida. Tive a sorte de ter sabido de uma oportunidade mesmo na altura em que estava prestes a desistir!

Procurar casa em Cracóvia pode ser um pouco complicado. As rendas são relativamente elevadas para o custo média de vida deste país, e há muitos estudantes que tomam logo conta de todos os apartamentos mais baratos. Calhou bem ter vindo a Cracóvia a meio de Agosto, porque a cidade está mais vazia, e assim foi mais fácil alugar um T1 que serve bem para as minha necessidades (e que fica a meio caminho entre o meu emprego e o centro da cidade, com bons transportes para todo o lado!).

Vou tentar manter aqui um pequeno registo das minhas aventuras, mas como não sou muito dado a blogs, não prometo actualizações frequentes :p

I don’t use Google Talk much, but I use my Gmail account everyday, and I usually keep a tab with it open.
Via the Google Operating System blog, I found an extremely easy way to add a simple chat system in my blog, allowing users to talk with me (but not among them selfs, my blog is not a IRC chatroom).

Just create a new Text widget space and copy paste the HTML you get from the badge generation page.

I have no idea how useful this will be for me, but it is sure a nice thing to have!
Go ahead, if you find me online, drop me a line or two. I promise I will answer

After vising again Blender’s homepage I’m thinking about giving another shot to my old 3D modeling hobby. Blender has changed a lot since I last used it in 2004/2005, a really set of nice features has been added and the community is really strong and supporting, judging by the average comment count on every Blender Nation blog post. I still have my old gallery up, but it is now really outdated

I’m sure that soon, the release of Big Buck Bunny, Blender’s amazing open source animation project codename Peach, will revamp the whole community. A lot of people will see this movie and get excited about Blender 3D, so I will be just one more of this guys, but I already know a little about it and hopefully I won’t have to go through the tutorials again!

I’m doing my final project for my Master’s degree and my laptop just died on me. Suddenly it crashed and when I rebooted I didn’t get anything on display. Not even BIOS/POST information… All my stuff is there; I do have backups, but all configs and settings will take for ever to setup again…

I have a an external 2,5” USB socket that I will try to use today to get everything out before I send it to warranty.

London was great. I mean really great! The most important think was that I was with my girlfriend after a long time!!

It wasn’t my first time in London, but last time I was there only one day and it’s not enough to even get the feeling of this amazing city.
This time I saw the Big Ben, Victoria, Piccadilly, Camden Town (where I bought a brand new acrylic contact juggling ball ), Buckingham Palace, among other attractions. The Science Museum was so big that we didn’t have time to go to the Natural History Museum. One funny thing was that the 2nd floor add Mathematics and Computer’s story.

It was also an opportunity to meet Maja, one of Marta’s best friends. Thank you for your hospitality Maja! You are always welcome in Portugal!

There’s much more thing I could write about London (viewed from a 5-day tourist eyes) but I will let it for your imagination. Soon I will post some photos in my Flickr account!

Great trip, wasn’t it laleczka?

I’ve been today at FEUP to the first phase of the Novabase Academy program (link in Portuguese only). I participated in the first series of psychometric tests, with typical questions with numbers, sequences, words etc.. followed by a personality test.

These kind of tests are very different from the one I’m used to. I never know how good I did…

The final step in my degree is a practical internship. I had many options, including staying at University in a research project but I wanted to start in the real world.

I’m doing my internship at Critical Software. The project is “Enabling offline execution of the WOW! Product”.
WOW stands for Work Orders Web, and work flow and work orders management tool. It is based in Java using Stripes and Spring.

To do the offline bit, I was investigating many options, but I choose Google Gears to do it. It will be a prototype, covering only a very limited portion of the online functionality.

Welcome to my blog. There isn’t much to see right now, I will do my best to change that in a near future.

Whish me luck!