Fun on Diogo Gomes

Maratona BTT de Aveiro

Sun, 19 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0100

Este post tem 1 semana de atraso mas fica para a história o registo…

No passado domingo dia 12 de Setembro realizou-se a segunda maratona em BTT de Aveiro, na qual tive o prazer de participar. Não vou poder dizer que foi uma prova dura, porque na realidade eu estava muito mal preparado… acabadinho de chegar de 15 dias de férias sem nenhum treino … claro que penei para percorrer os 53km que compunham a meia-maratona.

MTB and OpenStreetMaps

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:50:51 +0000

Although the weather wasn’t the most pleasing, I decided to get back to my MTB weekend rides. Today (as a warmup ride) my brother and I took an all road ride to Praia da Barra, that is approximately 15km away from Aveiro.

Since I haven’t done any exercise since summer, my legs are very sore (can’t wait for tomorrow, when they will feel completely numb). But hopefully I will be back in shape in no time, in order to start doing more appealing tracks offroad.

Codebits 2009

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 01:50:30 +0100

Been quite busy in the last weeks…

I’ve finally submitted my Phd thesis (more on that in another post), and been quite busy preparing project proposals for FP7 Call 5.

But I still had time to register for this year Codebits 2009. This year it will be held in Cordoaria Nacional.

Hope to meet you there!

Universidade de Aveiro Achievements in Robotics

Tue, 12 May 2009 20:19:06 +0000

I would like to use this post to public congratulate the University of Aveiro Teams involved in last weeks “Festival Nacional de Robótica” held at IPCB.

After winning last years Robocup, CAMBADA just revalidated the national title (third championship on a row) for middle size robots. As for Autonomic Driving the DEM took the victory with ATLAS-2008 and ATLAS-MV in the first 2 places with a 4th place going to DETI’s ROTA.

These achievements are not random, and are a direct result of effort put into these projects by both students and professors, and of the quality of the education and research done in the University of Aveiro.

Finally an Office

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:53:50 +0100

It’s true! I finally got my self a more private office space, thus leaving the lab.

Not that I wouldn’t miss the lab (in which I still spend some time), but it was about time I got my own space where I can concentrate myself and stop being bothered constantly by students and friends (you know who you are ;) )

One of the best parts of the new office is that although I stayed in the ground floor, I now have a window/door to the outside! that means that I actually can work with natural light and can walk out side for some fresh air (at least in theory, since for the last weeks we only had rain…) and visits such as the duck family in the picture.

PaintBall com o Nucleo de ECT

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:27:43 +0000

Este é um post em jeito de agradecimento ao Núcleo de Eng. Computadores e Telemática que este ano convidou vários professores, entre eles me incluo, para um dia de prática de paintball.

Foi um dia muito bem passado na companhia não só dos alunos como dos meus colegas João Paulo Barraca, André Zuquete e Artur Pereira, e de alguns membros do meu grupo de investigação.

Não tendo sido a primeira vez que pratiquei PaintBall, foi sem dúvida uma excelente experiência.

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…

Book Meme

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:05:54 +0000

Sim, tentei resistir mas não consegui…

«A list has exactly the opposite properties»

As regras da praxe:

Pega no livro mais próximo.
Abre na página 56.
Procura a quinta frase.
Coloca um post no teu blog com o texto e seguido destas instruções.
Não escolhas o teu livro favorito, o mais cool ou o mais intelectual

PS: Alguém adivinha de que livro é :) ?

The Last Shadow Puppets - Standing Next to Me

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:19:56 +0100

This music has been playing in a loop in my head for more then a month now…

Desktop Meme

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:44:46 +0100

Take a screenshot of your desktop right now, don’t change anything, post it on your blog!

New Theme

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:31:04 +0100

Well, what can I say…

The old theme was hanging in this site since almost it’s beginning as a temporary theme till I got something done. That day arrived today (or tonight) when with the help of my wife I costumized WP-Andreas01 theme.

Hope everyone likes it!

PS: anyone browsing the blog using an iPhone/iPod Touch will get a surprise ;)

Top 10

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:31:13 +0100

Answering Alfredo’s challenge:

My MacBook:

$ history|awk '{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}'|sort -rn|head
148 ssh
63 ls
50 cd
29 ping
28 sudo
23 traceroute
21 scp
17 vi
17 ifconfig
15 route

My Linux Workstation:

$ history|awk '{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}'|sort -rn|head
111 vi
67 make
66 cd
61 svn
54 ls
39 sudo
22 pwd
10 man
8 grep
7 more

Sobre Futebol

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 20:07:12 +0000

Não sou pessoa de fazer posts sobre assuntos de futebol, no entanto vou abrir uma excepção.

O F.C.P. tornou-se hoje tri-campeão nacional de futebol, todos (jogadores e adeptos) festejaram junto ao estádio do dragão no Porto.

Para reflexão:O cantico mais entoado: "SLB...SLB... SLB SLB SLB, fil*** d* p*** SLB fil*** d* p*** é SLB"

Grading Students Papers

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 02:15:26 +0000

My life in the past weeks…

check out other great comics

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.

iPod Touch

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 02:48:49 +0000

Well this weekend my clock turned 27 years, and my wife and friends decided to give me an iPod Touch, which I had keeped in my wishlist for a while.

The experience is great, I also own a 4G ipod (the last monochromatic model) and this new model is all I could wish for…

The wifi interface is great, as it enables me to quickly check my email and feeds. The large screen will hopefully keep me entertained during flights. And hopefully will last more :).

Wishlist 2.0

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 02:19:17 +0000

We are getting near “the season” and therefore starting the never ending process of scouting for the right gift for each of your family members and friends. For kids it means writing a letter to santa, for grown ups it means setting up an online wishlist :) because you never know when someone has no idea what to offer you and browses through your website ( hint ).

I’ve used the Amazon wishlist for sometime now, but I mostly regret the fact that it is limited to Amazon products.

Foo Fighters - The Pretender

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:28:08 +0100

Great single for a great album!

Websites as graphs

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 19:14:31 +0100

Today a friend sent me a link to an applet called Websites as Graphs.

Here’s what it does:

*dgomes.camelot.com.pt*

As most of you might already know, web pages are written in a graph structured markup language (HTML). Some complex (such as your's truly blog), some quite simple (such as google website):

[google]

But what is it doing? What this applet does is plain simple: it generates a graph of the html structure of a given website using the basic HTML tags as nodes in the graph. In order to read the graph you should know that:

Pownce

Mon, 09 Jul 2007 18:17:01 +0100

Pownce is yet another Web2.0 website…

…but then if it was, why did it catch my interest ?

The desktop application enables to quickly share with friends (not the whole world!) notes, links, files and events.

“Why not use the email ?” True… but thats so 90’s :)

Mugshot

Wed, 04 Apr 2007 16:54:37 +0100

I’m hooked!

After saying to myself a thousand times that I wouldn’t joint yet another over hyped Web2.0 website, i joined yet another one…

My friend Rafael sent the link over (yes! he is the one to blaim!)

http://www.mugshot.org/

I found it interisting because it provides a lot of information without requiring any new input, it basically retrieves all information from sites such as flickr, last.fm and mashes them up.

Another interesting feature is the Firefox extension which enables me to share links with my friends without the omnipresent “email”.

Tesourinho deprimente

Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:31:51 +0100

É deprimente ter o genérico de um programa que é um cover …

Search Engines (like if…)

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Forget about Google, Yahoo, Live.com…

Because Ms.Dewey is here! Staring actress Janina Gavankar Try searching “you are so hot”,“take off your clothes”,“illegal drugs”, “ho”, “nintendo”, “what are you reading?”, “ms. dewey”, “just tell me”, “fastest bittorrent client”, “blow me”, “george bush”, “world of warcraft”, “how to do the robot”, “web design”, “Battlefield 2”, “murder”(several times), “storm”, “Halo 2”, “Google”, “Jesus”, “arts”, “iPod”, “music download”, “eminem”(again several times), “so you think you can dance”, “yo mama”, “Ferrari”, “Horror movie”, “911”, “Lord of the Rings”, “Bruce Willis”, “Use gun” (several times), “twins”, “chris rock”, “ashton kutcher”, “If you get inside your computer you can do anything you want to me”, “terrorist”, “Britney Spears”, “MMORPG”, “Microsoft”, “Linux”