Code on Diogo Gomes

Nokia 7100 Supernova plug-in for iSync

Sun, 28 Dec 2008 20:27:33 +0000

This xmas I got my wife a new cellphone a Nokia 7100 Supernova which although not a 3G phone fits perfectly her needs. It has a slick design, a good enough camera (1.3 megapixel), GPRS/EDGE, support for the usual suspects (MMS, Java MIDP) and Bluetooth.

Now comes the catch:

I completely forgot to check if it was supported by iSync. So after the gift unwrapping I was faced with an unsupported phone with no plugin available either by Nokia nor anyone in the internet (as far as my google search is concerned). Faced with this situation, I decided to go ahead and develop the plugin myself with Apple’s iSync Plug-in Maker. This utility is available in your system in case you have installed the developers tools in your OSX DVD. You can find it under /Developer/Applications/Utilities/.

Codebits

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:12:45 +0000

Vim a Lisboa ver as modas e acabei a brincar com os RFID’s disponibilizados pela iUZ!.

Cada participante do Codebits tem na sua label um RFID que pode ser lido pelos portais distribuidos pelo recinto em zonas estratégicas. Todos participantes têm ainda acesso a essa informação através de uma API disponível aqui.

Meia dúzia de linhas php em “spaghetti code” permitem:

Engraçado… mas não passa disso…

Pasta Code

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:47:55 +0000

This might come as old news to many of you, but only very recently did I read the following “Letter to the Editor” of “CrossTalk” (“The Journal of Defense Software Engineering”): Letter to the Editor CROSSTALK, Journal of Defense Software Engineering

The mention of “a feast of spaghetti code” (“Computer Collectives”, CrossTalk, April/May 1992) prompted this response:

Nearly every software professional has heard the term spaghetti code as a pejorative description for complicated, difficult to understand, and impossible to maintain, software. However, many people may not know the other two elements of the complete Pasta Theory of Software.