Opeth In The Fall
Oct 29 2008One of the things I love the most is music.
Not just music, but good, live and loud music. It's been a long time since I've been to a concert and as I recently officially moved to London, I finally got the time and patience to buy tickets for one of the most respected bands in the metal universe: Opeth.
It's amazing how 20GBP buys you a ticket to see Opeth, Cynic (and some other band) in the legendary Shepherds Bush Empire. Comparing to 2006 December's Opeth and Amplifier gig in the tiny, claustrophobic Club Lua in Lisbon for the same price, this is clearly a great deal.
Here's the obligatory ticket shot (like last year's Wacken ticket shot):
By the way, Ticketmaster loves to deliver tickets to your door when you are taking a hot and steamy bath.
Farewell Axmark
Oct 09 2008David Axmark (of MySQL fame) has just left Sun after its acquisition earlier this year. Citing his words on why he left:
I have thought about my role at Sun and decided that I am better off in smaller organisations. I HATE all the rules that I need to follow, and I also HATE breaking them. It would be far better for me to “retire” from employment and work with MySQL and Sun on a less formal basis.
Yeah, rules on big companies are somehow hard to follow, and my early experience on a similar company seems to confirm that.
Thanks David, for the greatest and coolest database ever! Let's hope Sun can cope with the hundreds of bugs in the queue.
Permit me a little moment of history (for 2 reasons: me with 95.773241% more hair together with the two coolest geeks in the planet. yeah, Axmark included)
The Webcanvas Experience
Feb 25 2008There you have it.
The reason why i came to london and gave up lots of important stuff back in lisbon.
It's a hell of an experience.
I'm in a small flat with 3 friends now (we were 4 yesterday) and we've been living the ultimate geek experience: doing what you love on a project that you believe and having lots of time for it.
We've been so concentrated on this project that i didn't really have any time at all to see the city (besides those secondchancetuesday and meetup/opencoffee days).
It's been great meeting lots of people doing the same and exchanging ideas (actually great ones) at our minibar event, and of course, getting the world to know about webcanvas.
Webcanvas is the infinite canvas painting project, where you and your friends around the world can go there and paint, collaboratively.
Now, this Moët&Chandon is really something.
Time Machine Over The Air
Jan 22 2008I've been wondering for sometime if i could actually backup with Time Machine on a samba share.
Well, you can if you do the following in Terminal.app:
defaults write com.apple.systempreferences \ TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1
Connect to your samba share and make sure you have enough space. Don't forget to save the password in the Keychain.
Fire up Time Machine and there you have it, a new backup disk to choose from (gotta love Leopard's "hidden" features).
So much for making you spend 300bucks...
Urlize Those Java Properties
Jan 14 2008I decided to (finally) post some code here.
This is a java class (java is that respected language in the corps, not python) i use a lot in some projects that will give you extra configuration feature set.
I find it really useful to have centralized configuration files in a webserver, since it's really simple to reconfigure that app running somewhere in the network.
This way i just vi the file and introduce the new configuration so that the app is ready to run.
Code:
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.Properties;
import java.io.InputStream;
public class URLProperties extends Properties
{
public URLProperties(String url) throws Exception
{
super();
InputStream istream = (new URL(url)).openStream();
this.load(istream);
istream.close();
}
}
Now, i know that this should be in the code section of this blog.
I also know that the code, about and photo sections are not working (sweet 404 eh?).
They will sooon (sooon is longer than soon, really).