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Last post I wrote about evolution. Professional evolution… from legacy technology  to new IT paradigms, cloud and mobile. This week, as a result of that evolution, the weather app I  developed with a friend, was deployed and it’s available at App Store.

I hope users from Portugal and Brazil find (more...)

In the past 18 months I’ve researched and learned at least a dozen new (to me) and recent technologies. Any of them belongs to 2 interesting areas that I’ve focused in that period… Cloud and Mobile. I’m an early Amazon Web Services adopter and I’ve deployed several services and infrastructures on (more...)

I bet if any of you have an exposed server to an internet connection, without properly firewall protection, that your server is under heavy fire from hackers around the “world”… By the world I mean mostly China and Russia ssh attacks. If you’re curious, on Linux you can check the (more...)

Today I was trying to install a free version of a well know portuguese ERP software. The company name is PrimaveraBSS and the version I was trying to install was Primavera Express 7.5. There are lot’s of problems when you install bad software, usually these applications run on conflict (more...)

Today at Amazon AWS re:invent, Amazon announced a cloud service for data warehouse customers. It allows to easily analyse petabytes of data, interacts with known BI solutions, and it’s usually 10 times faster than traditional implementations… queries run really blazing fast! This service is certified by MicroStrategy and Jaspersoft.

Redshift runs (more...)

For several years I’ve been using Oracle and other SQL relational databases. I’ve dedicated most of the time of my researching and developing on Oracle technology. There’s no question that Oracle leads on site installations and that the quality of the products and the ROI is one of the best. (more...)

Hi folks,

We can’t stop the social flow! Social networks are ruling the world. So as I had some free time lately, I decided do create a facebook fan page. For most of us with a facebook profile visited daily, it’s easier to follow syndications and we’ve got a better (more...)

In the last 10 weeks suddenly I lost 80% of my blog visits… thanks to google! In the last 6 months I found dozens of copycats of posts I wrote and those sites have a greater rank than my legit original blog!

For that, Thank you a lot google… you’re (more...)

I’m an huge NGINX fan. Nginx pronounced “Engine-X” is an open source Web server and a reverse proxy server for HTTP, SMTP, POP3 and IMAP protocols, with a strong focus on high concurrency, performance and low memory usage. Nginx is awesome… really. I use it since 0.6 beta and never (more...)

After analyzing my browsing history I denoted that there are some resources that I read often than others. The 5 oracle resources I used most in the past year were:

Oracle Support. Former metalink is a site that I go almost every week. There are tons of information but there’s (more...)