Paulo Cunha

Morro Branco (Jun 2011)

2011-10-20T17:39:00.001+01:00

Batalha (Abr 2011)

2011-10-19T15:29:00.003+01:00

Fim de Semana Douro River (Mar 2011)

2011-10-19T01:04:00.003+01:00

Dubrovnik @ Croácia (Croatia)

2011-10-18T19:50:00.003+01:00

Postojna Cave & Predjama Castle @ Eslovénia (Slovenia)

2011-10-18T15:10:00.003+01:00

Ljubljana @ Eslovénia (Slovenia)

2011-10-18T14:06:00.002+01:00

Zagreb @ Croácia (Croatia)

2011-10-18T03:36:00.003+01:00

Plitvicka Jezera National Park @ Croácia (Croatia)

2011-10-17T22:03:00.003+01:00

Šibenik & Zadar @ Croácia (Croatia)

2011-10-17T00:38:00.001+01:00

Hvar @ Croácia (Croatia)

2011-10-17T00:26:00.001+01:00

Zlatni Rat (Brac) @ Croácia (Croatia)

2011-10-17T00:09:00.001+01:00

Split @ Croácia (Croatia)

2011-10-16T19:22:00.001+01:00

Barcelona 2010

2011-10-14T18:18:00.001+01:00

InfoQ: Microsoft has Abandoned Silverlight and All Other Plugins in Metro IE

2011-09-26T16:54:00.000+01:00

InfoQ: Microsoft has Abandoned Silverlight and All Other Plugins in Metro IE This is an extremely important new, since it means that all IT dudes need to focus on HTML5... including me

Redução das taxas de juro dos empréstimos da UE a Portugal será retroactiva - Economia - PUBLICO.PT

2011-09-14T16:35:00.000+01:00

Nem tudo são más notícias :) Se percebi bem as contas, isto significa uma redução significativa do que teremos que pagar, ou seja... potencialmente menos impostos a médio/longo prazo Redução das taxas de juro dos empréstimos da UE a Portugal será retroactiva - Economia - PUBLICO.PT

Casino condenado a pagar indemnização de 82 mil euros a viciado no jogo | Jornal Digital

2011-09-13T11:49:00.000+01:00

Hoje em dia até nos pagam para não sermos responsáveis por nós próprios. Eu teria vergonha... Casino condenado a pagar indemnização de 82 mil euros a viciado no jogo | Jornal Digital: - Sent using Google Toolbar

Advanced Microsoft Project Filters « Office Tech Support – Project, Access, Excel

2011-07-21T23:24:00.001+01:00

The help manual for MS Project is less then useful for deciphering how to do complex filters. It would be nice if they just addressed it like any other language syntax. Wildcards? Reserved words? Special Functions? Anyhow, below is a list fo some standard filters you may want to use in Project. If you look closely you’ll notice a few tricks to get around the inflexible nature of Project’s filter syntax. One trick is to use the IIF operator to evaluate a statement within a custom field formula. The formula sets the field’s value then the filter evaluates that value. Another trick is used for getting around Project’s oddball treatment of “Null” or “N/A” dates. To check for these dayes you use a built-in project function e.g. Projdatevalue(“NA”).

Cheers,

Trevor Lowing
Office Tech Support

Filter Name Description Flag Field Flag Field Formula Filter Text

Next Two Weeks All work scheduled during the next
two weeks. Flag5 IIf(([Start]<([Status Date]+14)
And ([% Complete]<100)) And ([Finish]>[Status
Date]),”Yes”,”No”) Flag5 equals Yes

Late Start Activities that should have started
but have not or have started but have not completed. Flag6 IIf(([Start]<([Status Date]) And
([% Complete]=0)),”Yes”,”No”) Flag6 equals Yes

Late Finish Activities that should have finished
but have not. Flag7 IIf(([Finish]<([Status Date]) And
([% Complete]<100)),”Yes”,”No”) Flag7 equals Yes

Future Actual Or Deadline Activities where the actual complete
date is in the future or a Deadline has been set. Flag8 IIf((([Actual Start]>[Status Date]) And ([Actual
Start]<>projdatevalue(“NA”)))Or
(([Actual Finish]>[Status Date]) And ([Actual
Start]<>projdatevalue(“NA”)))

Or ([Deadline]<>projdatevalue(“NA”))

,”Yes”,”No”)
Flag8 equals Yes

Logical Finish Activities with no
successors. Summary equals No And Successors
equals

Logical Start Activities with no
predecessors. Summary equals No And Predecessors
equals

Long-Duration Activities with a duration greater
than 40 days. Summary equals No And Duration is
greater than 40d

Negative Float Activities with Total Slack less than
zero. Summary equals No And Total Slack is
less than 0d

Summary-with-Pred-Links Activities with predecessor
links. Summary equals Yes And Predecessors
does not equal

Summary-with-Succ-Links Activities with successor
links. Summary equals Yes And Sucessors does
not equal

Constraint Not ASAP Activities not constrained “as
soon as possible” Constraint Type does not equal As
soon As Possible

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Ankor Wat

2011-04-19T18:20:00.001+01:00

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Just heard in CSI NY...

2011-04-15T21:17:00.002+01:00

"I will create a GUI interface with Visual Basic so I can track that IP address!"
Do they even care that even a computer rookie can see that this phrase is a complete nonsense!?!?!

12 Behavior Anti Patterns You Will Face As a Software Team Leader

2011-04-11T23:13:00.000+01:00

Assertively frontal! :)
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12 Behavior Anti Patterns You Will Face As a Software Team Leader: "
Most of these, we covered today on the 1st day of my Lead Better course that is taking place in Oslo, with live simulations. The purpose was to see how a team lead deals with these anti patterns when going through team chaos. How the team lead might act to these behaviors when the team is in learning mode, is very different than how I'd expect them to react when in chaos, as was simulated today.

Team Member Behavior Anti Patterns

Extremely shy and afraid to say when he is done with a task. can be idle and helpless if you don't notice.
1. Lead needs to give 'simple rules' to that member so they know exactly what to do in a situation when they are idle. for example 'if you see that you're not doing anything, contact me immediately. We can't afford to have anyone not working right now'
2. If it persists, the lead can also offer a more assertive statement such as 'If you want to continue to be part of this team, you'll have to chip into the effort. I know this is hard for you, but I expect you to rise to the challenge and contact me if you don't have anything else to do'
Lazy, who only does the simplest thing, so he can say he did what he was told
1. Lead can be direct and demand more from that person, or alternatively remove them from the team until they can spend more time understanding why this is happening.
Negative - constantly saying things like 'I knew that would happen' or 'really? that would never work'
1. Same as with lazy
Would only work alone. does not like working with other people
1. If they do a great job on their own, and this is usable to the team lead to get out of chaos, there's no harm in letting that person work on their own.
2. If it hurts the team, or continues chaos, see 2.1
Is the designated 'architect' and refuses to do anything else
1. See #4
Constantly multi tasking on a different task
1. Either reset expectations to mgmt about not doing that other task
2. or remove that person from ccurrent effort and reestimate effort to mgmt
Only comfortable working with a specific kind of work (only on the GUI, for example)
1. see #4
Working really SLOWLY
1. They might be perfectionists. see # 12
2. If it doesn't hurt the team during chaos, no problem
3. If it does, find work that they CAN do fast, or much better than everyone else
4. If they can't do anything fast, put them on a low risk item, because teaching them to be fast takes time you don't have right now
Two team members who argue without any resolution on some technical detail
1. Argument isn't bad, until it's unproductive or bottlenecks the team, so..
2. Ask them to choose which solution they want o try first
3. Give them a time box to pick one solution to go with
4. Select the solution for them (it's chaos time)
One team member follows another team member blindly, even when it hurts the current effort to get rid of chaos
1. separate them form working on the same task together until chaos is over and you can handle it
2. Ask influencer to stop influencing the influenced until chaos is over
Working on personal projects not mandated by anyone (remember, this is during CHAOS!)
1. see #4
Perfectionist in a time of chaos - will make sure everything is the right color, when the wheels are not even working.
1. Explain that this is not the time for perfectionism (unless that's what's demanded!), but a time to ship so that chaos can be over fires are put out.
2. Give them simple rules to follow on when to stop:'if you see yourself matching colors, stop and go fix something that's in the bug's list. do NOT WORK ON COLOR MATCHING in the next 3 days!'
3. If that does not work, use authority to ask them to stop

(what other anti patterns do you know?)

Outside disruptions and anti patterns

Requirements keep changing
- The lead needs to keep up or set expectations correctly
Impossible Fixed time, cost, and features - what would the team lead do in this case?
- Ask which of three factors can be 'moved' - 'I either need more time, or more people. If I can't have either, I will need to commit to less features. Here's what we CAN do'
'I need one of your devs for X time for a customer demo'
- If it doesn't hurt current team tasks, no problem
- If it does, explain that the team will need to re-commit to a different time schedule, or different feature set, if other people cannot be introduced into the team (even if they were, that also takes extra time to get them into the team and project culture)

Since today was all about chaos, it was interesting to see how afraid people can be to be a little assertive to get things flowing again. overall, many behaviors which would fit a team in the learning stage, were exhibited for a team in a chaotic stage.
I feel that at least one person in the course has come out of their comfort zone more than a little during this task, and for that, I am very very happy.
"

Jornalista José Gomes Ferreira farta-se da ilusão :)

2011-04-02T16:59:00.000+01:00

Espero honestamente que esta postura se torne tão contagiosa como este vídeo!

Blogger Buzz: Fresh new perspectives for your blog

2011-04-01T15:50:00.002+01:00

This is a great demo of AJAX, HTML5 and CSS3 technologies combined together!
Watch my sample here ;)

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Portugal integra lista dos melhores destinos mundiais para Outsourcing

2011-03-18T17:18:00.000Z

Não sei se isto é necessariamente positivo...

Portugal integra lista dos melhores destinos mundiais para Outsourcing: "
A Gartner, uma das principais consultoras mundiais na área das tecnologias de informação, colocou Portugal na lista dos 11 países desenvolvidos a serem ponderados para a realização de outsourcing de tecnologias de informação e processos, logo após uma lista de 30 países dominada pelos mercados emergentes. Portugal integra, pela primeira vez, a lista dos melhores destinos mundiais para a realização de Outsourcing de tecnologias de informação e processos da consultora Gartner. Esta inclusão surge após as várias acções de promoção do sector desenvolvida pela Associação Portugal Outsourcing, inclusive nos mercados internacionais. Frederico Moreira Rato, presidente da Portugal Outsourcing salienta que “a entrada do nosso País neste importante ranking da Gartner vem reforçar a nossa visão de que Portugal tem potencial para desenvolver uma nova indústria de serviços exportadora de ponta baseada no Outsourcing de tecnologias de informação e processos. Mas também temos consciência que para entrar no pelotão da frente é necessário uma aposta da Administração Pública nos benefícios que o sector pode oferecer, bem como ultrapassar alguns constrangimentos à actividade, nomeadamente na área laboral e fiscal”. O ranking da consultora Gartner coloca Portugal entre os 11 países desenvolvidos com mais potencial para operações de offshore (outsourcing para destinos longínquos) e nearshore (outsourcing para mercados de proximidade), logo a seguir a uma lista de 30 países dominados por estados de mercados emergentes. Na Europa, Portugal é colocado a par de países como a Irlanda, Israel, Irlanda do Norte, Escócia, Espanha e País de Gales. Segunda a Gartner, este conjunto de países tem um ambiente doméstico maduro, com mão-de-obra qualificada nas tecnologias de informação e processos de negócio, infra-estruturas tecnológicas robustas, legislação madura e muitas vezes contam com investimentos significativos de multinacionais prestadoras de serviços. Contudo, estes países frequentemente têm uma performance desfavorável em termos de custos face a mercados emergentes. Um estudo recente promovido pela Portugal Outsourcing salienta que a competitividade de Portugal como destino de projectos e centros de competências a nível internacional tem vindo a aumentar, o que já se traduziu na captação de importantes projectos e infra-estruturas para Portugal. O trabalho denominado “Portugal como Destino Internacional de Outsourcing” defende a importância da adopção do outsourcing no Sector Público e a urgência da criação de medidas específicas para o sector, de forma a explorar o potencial demonstrado pelo País e a reforçar a sua competitividade no contexto europeu. As empresas associadas da Portugal Outsourcing querem captar para o País projectos internacionais que permitam aumentar as exportações de serviços de tecnologia e processos nacionais, tendo como objectivo que o sector venha a alcançar mais de 1.300 milhões de euros em exportações em 2015. A Portugal Outsourcing estima que o outsourcing de TI e processos em Portugal venha a representar 1,3% do PIB em seis anos, originando ganhos de produtividade anuais para a economia nacional que poderão ser superiores a 1.500 milhões de euros. As empresas associadas acreditam que o seu sector pode criar 12 mil novos empregos líquidos em Portugal nos próximos anos, com importante parte dessa evolução a ser gerada pelo mercado internacional e pela Administração Pública. O roadshow promovido pela Portugal Outsourcing incluiu, em 2010, uma acção de apresentação em Londres que contou com especialistas nacionais e internacionais, estando previstas mais acções em cidades europeias em 2011. Entre os oradores na apresentação em Londres estiveram António Nogueira Leite, antigo Secretário de Estado do Tesouro e Finanças, bem como Frederico Moreira Rato, Presidente da Associação Portugal Outsourcing. A Portugal Outsourcing tem como associados as empresas Accenture, Altran, Capgemini, Deloitte, Everis, Glintt, HP, IBM, Indra, Logica, Mainroad, Novabase, Oni, Portugal Telecom, Reditus, Sibs Processos, Siemens e Xerox. O sector do outsourcing com recurso às tecnologias de informação e comunicação gera mais de 1.000 milhões de euros por ano para a economia nacional, o que representa cerca de 0,66% do PIB. in Portugal Global

Permanent Anti-Fog Coating Developed

2011-03-18T15:21:00.001Z

Era muito bom!...
Permanent Anti-Fog Coating Developed: "Claimed to be the world's first permanent anti-fog coating for eyeglasses, motorcycle helmet face shields and more."

Powerful quake hits Japan

2011-03-11T10:00:00.000Z

Tsunami without special efects. Scary.

Filter Name	Description	Flag Field	Flag Field Formula	Filter Text
Next Two Weeks	All work scheduled during the next two weeks.	Flag5	IIf(([Start]<([Status Date]+14) And ([% Complete]<100)) And ([Finish]>[Status Date]),”Yes”,”No”)	Flag5 equals Yes
Late Start	Activities that should have started but have not or have started but have not completed.	Flag6	IIf(([Start]<([Status Date]) And ([% Complete]=0)),”Yes”,”No”)	Flag6 equals Yes
Late Finish	Activities that should have finished but have not.	Flag7	IIf(([Finish]<([Status Date]) And ([% Complete]<100)),”Yes”,”No”)	Flag7 equals Yes
Future Actual Or Deadline	Activities where the actual complete date is in the future or a Deadline has been set.	Flag8	IIf((([Actual Start]>[Status Date]) And ([Actual Start]<>projdatevalue(“NA”)))Or (([Actual Finish]>[Status Date]) And ([Actual Start]<>projdatevalue(“NA”))) Or ([Deadline]<>projdatevalue(“NA”)) ,”Yes”,”No”)	Flag8 equals Yes
Logical Finish	Activities with no successors.			Summary equals No And Successors equals
Logical Start	Activities with no predecessors.			Summary equals No And Predecessors equals
Long-Duration	Activities with a duration greater than 40 days.			Summary equals No And Duration is greater than 40d
Negative Float	Activities with Total Slack less than zero.			Summary equals No And Total Slack is less than 0d
Summary-with-Pred-Links	Activities with predecessor links.			Summary equals Yes And Predecessors does not equal
Summary-with-Succ-Links	Activities with successor links.			Summary equals Yes And Sucessors does not equal
Constraint Not ASAP	Activities not constrained “as soon as possible”			Constraint Type does not equal As soon As Possible