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Estou postando para anunciar que foi lançada a versão 1.0 do meu plugin para Wordpress chamado anti-IE6-army!

A idéia do plugin é juntar um exército de campanhas contra o Internet Explorer 6 que estão perdidas pela internet em um único plugin, para que todos que possuem blogs com Wordpress possam usar facilmente, sem precisal alterar HTML, ou abrir qualquer arquivo de código!

Aqui no blog tem uma página só para falar do Plugin, e lá você pode obter mais informações.

Espero o comentário de vocês sobre o Plugin, e se quiserem contribuir com código, o projeto está no GitHub!

Esse foi o meu Call to Arms, agora espero que vocês realmente usem!

English Version

I’m posting here to announce my anti-IE6-army Wordpress Plugin!

The idea behind this project is unite a lot of campaigns against Internet Explorer 6 that are splitted on the internet on one single wordpress plugin, so everybody with a Wordpress blog will can use it easily, without change any HTML, or open a single code file!

You can read more about this plugin on the plugin page at this blog.

I’m waiting your comments about the plugin, and if you want to contribut with code, the project is on GitHub!

This post is my Call to Arms! Now i hope you really use this plugin.

Há braços

As i promise, here goes my presentation!

Finally i finished to translate all the presentation! Watched the video a lot of times, pausing and playing to write all i said translating to english.

Fortunately i have a big help from my friend Victor Goff, that correct all my grammar errors and typos.

I’m posting below all i have about the presentation, slides from Slideshare, Video from Blip.tv, and a translation pasted here, but you can find the translation at Google Docs too. Enjoy!

First Words

My name is Willian Molinari as Marcelo said, I participated of 3rd Batch of
Rubylearning at the beginning of the last year. Since the finish of the
course I was an Assistant Teacher, and i’m a Mentor since the beginning of
this year.
I attempt to show to you a bit of what Rubylearning is and how does it
work, what is the course idea.  It is a short presentation, you will see that
I’ll “run” with the content, but the presentation idea is to show you a
bit of what RubyLearning courses are.

Slide1

Fist, lets start with “What is Rubylearning?” The course itself is
Rubylearning.org, and Rubylearning is divided into Blog, Website and
courses.
Blog is where Satish post some of his interviews with Ruby
community guys like Matt of Merb project or Dr. Nic. And on blog have other
cool posts too.
On Website Satish maintain a Ruby tutorial, a Ruby Book and post other ruby
contents.
And on Rubylearning.org the course happens.

Slide2

To answer the question “What is Rubyleraning.org” I was helped by the other
teachers of Rubylearning. One of the good answers was made by George
Thompson, this guy that you see in the large photo. After telling a
funny joke, saying that Rubylearning is for everything since it will “allow you to grow wings to fly” and will “help you in the bedroom”
He gives these topics to speak about.
The first thing is that Rubylearning is for everyone that has an interest in
Ruby, if you are a experienced professional, or just learning now, Rubylearning is here to help you.
It is a framework to your first steps with Ruby, so you will not depend just
from Google or online tutorials, on Rubylearning you will have more people
to help you to participate and discuss your answers and so on…
Rubylearning is not just for who are starting with Ruby. If you work with
Ruby for a long time, you can participate to help the students that are
starting, returning to the community what you received. And you can participate
with other Rubylearning intermediate courses (Rubylearning doesn’t have just
the Core course, we have other courses for those who already have
knowledge of Ruby)
And of course…Rubylearning is a place to have fun! To code for fun, to
know different people of other countries, or maybe of your country, and you
didn’t know that this person was programming on this language.

Slide3

Rubyleraning is based on Moodle, as you can see, the image is strange
here, but the first screenshot is the screen after you sign up, and you
can see all the courses that you can subscribe to, and below you can see the
screen inside the course, all the material is divided by blocks, the forums and so on.

Slide4

More interesting informations about Rubylearning:
We are the declared winner of shorty awards in education category.
Unfortunately we couldn’t participate of ceremony in USA because only Satish
can participate in the ceremony, and the price to travel from India (Satish is Indian ) to USA could not cover the
costs…But anyway, we are the winners!
The number of participants get over 7200 mark, and maybe now we already pass
the 7500 mark, because this information is from 1 month ago, more or less.
Another cool thing, more than 40% of Rubylearning participants are from
Brazil, so you don’t have arguments to say: “I can’t participate, because
the course have people that from other countries and i don’t speak english
very well”, because always you will find a Brazillian to help you there.

Slide5

And who is the main teacher? Who is behind Rubylearning?

Slide6

Satish Talim, as i said, lives in India. He is a programmer, teacher,
consultant, working on some companies at India and USA, is speaker and has
more than 30 years of experience with I.T. He has these two domains:
Rubylearning.org and rubylearning.com. On .org domain we have the course
and on Rubylearning.com is his site. And he have a personal website domain, too.

Slide7

Ok, if Satish is behind Rubylearning, who are these guys that help on
forums? So… I asked to Satish by e-mail, because I didn’t know about how he divide us.
The assistant teachers are people that come from the core course and
enjoyed the course, so they are invited to help, and whomever accept comes as
assistant teachers of the next core course to help on foruns, answering the
students that are having doubts and helping on other things.
Mentors are experieced professionals that are working with I.T for a long
time and more time on Rubylearning, too. They help not only on Core course,
but on the other courses ( intermediate courses ) too.
The Patrons, this guys are on Rubylearning since rubylearning is coming to
be international, on the 2nd batch more or less, on the last months of
2007, and they have more time on rubylearning, so the way that Satish has
to classify teacher is time on rubylearning.

Slide8

For who is this course appropriate? Well…Our focus is the people that
already know something about programming, some other language and wants to
know Ruby, and not those people that do not know how to program and want to
learn on Rubylearning, This is not our focus. Our focus is to teach Ruby for
who those have a notion about programming.

Slide9

How does Rubylearning work? Well…The course is slotted into weekly study
material blocks. Every Saturday, Satish posts different sudy material with
important notes, so you can review quickly all you already read; Some
exercises, 10 or 5 exercises depending on how extensive is the material,
for you to solve and post on forums, to view the answers of teachers too.  For
example, you have a method and you are using return to return the variable
on the PHP style for example, but can be other language, so somebody replies
to you saying that you don’t need to specify this return because the Ruby
language returns the last statement by default, and so on…
The Quiz, is for your own benefit, so you can see if you learn all the
content.
And the Extras! The extras take to you some good material as links to good
content, a screencast related to the weekly study material, and others!

Slide10

How do quizzes work? As i said, Quiz is for your own benefit. A lot of
people are questioning me about the importance of quizzes on the course
participation, “if we don’t answer the quiz, are we kicked out of the
course” or we don’t receive the certificate. The quiz idea is auto-validation,
so after you read all the content, you will know with the quiz if you really
learn all you need to learn about that content, if you got a good result
with the quiz, you probably really learned this weeks content.

Slide11

Is necessary be active on Foruns? Humm…Yes! The main focus of
Rubylearning is the participation of everybody, so, if you really want to
get the best of the course you must to post your exercise answers, to
receive from more experienced people feedback about your solution. If you
don’t participate so much.. it’s okay too…You just lost the chance to learn more and
more.

Slide12

This is one of the things that everybody speaks about…”Ohhh…The course
is in english, from India, i will talk nonsense words, i don’t speak
english, my english is bad”…Humm…My personal English, i’m a assistant
teacher, is not so good, but i can communicate with others! If you can
communicate with other people is good enough! You will read and understand
the content and post your code on forums, if you are not comfortable to
write english, you can just post your code, somebody will reply to you, you
will understand the reply and it is good enough to your learning. If you
can talk is really better, because you can help on discussions, but the
english is not a big barrier to participate of Rubylearning.

Slide13

How is the course pace? As i said, Satish does weekly content posts on
forums…Not forums…the study materials. You don’t need to follow this
weekly pace, if you decide to view all the course in the last week you can,
but we recommend you to follow weekly because you can talk with other
people that are studying the same lesson and you have more focus on your
studies making it easy to learn different things.

Slide14

What topics the course cover? Well…We cover all the Beginning with Ruby,
from Ruby installation through…

Slide16

basic classes like numbers, blocks, variable scopes, constants, methods,
manipulation of text files, Regular Expressions, but only the basis of
Regular Expressions, how to work with RE with Ruby, working with classes,
inheritance, exceptions… We can’t cover tests ( the Ruby test/Unit class)

Cheers,

I writing this post to help my friends of Rubylearning with a little Merb application deployment on Locaweb. I’m just translating some informations that you can find here in portuguese.

Lets start!

First open the Domain Manager ( Gerenciador de domínios ) on Locaweb Panel ( Painel da Locaweb ) and configure the pointer of your main site to  other directory on public_html of your account ( this directory don’t need to exist ). Follow this steps:

1. Click on “alterar” ( change )
2. Change the “Diretório Web” ( web directory ) to the new diretory
3. And click on button “Salvar” ( save )

Transfer your application to a directory on your host. For this example, lets say that your application is called “sample_merb”, so, connect via SSH on your account and create the directory “rack_app”:

mkdir -p rack_app/sample_merb

And move your application to there.

Your application must to have a file called “config.ru” to be executed by Phusion Passenger, so, you need to create this file on your application folder ( rack_app/sample_merb on this case ) with this content:

require ‘rubygems’
require ‘merb-core’

Merb::Config.setup(:merb_root => “.”,
:environment => ENV['RACK_ENV'])

Merb.environment = Merb::Config[:environment]
Merb.root = Merb::Config[:merb_root]
Merb::BootLoader.run
run Merb::Rack::Application.new

Now you need to create a symbolic link on your public_html diretory, as you have configured on your Domain Manager ( Gerenciador de Domínios ) of Locaweb Panel.

ln -s ~/rack_app/sample_merb/public ~/public_html/sample_merb

With this simple configuration you will have your application pointed by apache with Phusion Passenger.

Just to you know, you can see the merb gems that are installed with:

gem list | grep merb

Hope this help you on how to make your simple application works on Locaweb.

brasileiros cliquem aqui

This post is just to say that in this new year i want to post more about programming than this one. This is the first end of year of this blog life, so want to post my “plans” to next year!

On the last months i’m getting experience to write, so maybe on this next year the quality of posts here will grow up ( or maybe not…hehe )! I don’t know how my life will be on this new year, maybe i’ll have a lot of things to do and learn ( more than i want….hehe ) and my time will be consumed by my tasks, but i want to post here all the things that i’m learning, so i will have a lot of interesting material here!

I’ll be on some events and courses on Brazil and i’ll keep all of you informed about them. A cool event that i’ll be in on this January is Campus Party Brazil with a high internet connection speed ( i think 5Gbs ) and a lot of great people to know and talk!

So…A happy new year for all of us!

Post in portuguese

E ae pessoal!

Estou apenas postando para dizer que nesse novo ano eu pretendo postar mais sobre programação! Essa é a primeira virada de ano desse blog, então resolvi postar meus “planos” para o próximo ano.

Como o blog é novo eu comecei a escrever faz pouco tempo e estou pegando experiência aos poucos, e talvez agora nesse novo ano a qualidade dos posts aumente! ( Ou não…heheh ).

Não sei bem qual rumo minha vida vai seguir nesse novo ano, o que eu vou ter que aprender e estudar, talvez eu tenha que aprender coisas que eu não tinha planejado e isso pode tomar uma boa parte do meu tempo, mas eu pretendo postar todos os meus estudos aqui, portanto terei algum material interessante aqui.

Esse ano estarei em alguns eventos por aqui ( como todo ano ), e eu pretendo postar sobre eles aqui no blog! Um evento que já está com minha presença confirmada é o Campus Party Brasil , que parece que vai ser bem lega, além da conexão monstruosa que terei lá vou encontrar umas pessoas bem legais.

Eu estarei fazendo o curso de verão da USP ( tópicos de programação ) no mês de janeiro no período noturno, portanto se alguem for fazer tambem me avise que nos encontraremos por lá!

Bem…É isso! Um feliz ano novo a todos os leitores do Blog e amigos e nos veremos em 2009!

Há braços

Hi International friends!

I’m just posting to inform that i want to post some content in english too! I’ll try to make a RSS Feed only for my english posts, so you can’t need to view my portuguese posts on your Reader.

Everybody knows that my english is not so good, but i think that you can understand me! Any english errors ( i think that i’ll have a lot of errors…:P ) please tell me and i’ll correct the text.

I’ll update this post when i have the link to RSS to english posts!

See you!