2010-04-30

Tweets of the month

Entering the final development stretch for ToughSTEP quinta-feira, 29 de Abril de 2010 14:59:14

Submitted camera-ready papers. Thanks to everybody involved! quinta-feira, 29 de Abril de 2010 00:18:25

Preparing the final version of 2 papers terça-feira, 27 de Abril de 2010 15:15:11

Finalizing Master's proposals for next year sexta-feira, 23 de Abril de 2010 14:11:50

@pedrocustodio Godspeed Pedro! :-) quinta-feira, 22 de Abril de 2010 13:37:06 in reply to pedrocustodio

Updated my personal web page http://web.ist.utl.pt/~miguel.pardal/ terça-feira, 20 de Abril de 2010 15:42:52

Using Twitter as a quick sharing service domingo, 18 de Abril de 2010 16:56:10

Attending #shiftconf sábado, 17 de Abril de 2010 17:09:48

# tiagomluis MLcomp - Website for Comparing Machine Learning Algorithms http://bit.ly/3vvxMx quinta-feira, 15 de Abril de 2010 15:52:07 Retweeted by you

Back to work. Clearing out distractions. quinta-feira, 15 de Abril de 2010 14:22:23

IoT@IST Vou fazer uma introdução ao RFID esta quarta às 16:00 no IST (sala F2) no âmbito de uma cadeira do Doutoramento. A sessão é aberta! terça-feira, 13 de Abril de 2010 00:06:04

IoT@IST (Internet of Things no IST): Queres estudar como o RFID + Internet = próxima revolução informática? Entra em contacto comigo. terça-feira, 13 de Abril de 2010 00:01:24

IoT@IST (Internet of Things at ISTécnico): Want to study how RFID meets the Internet and sparks the next IT revolution? Come talk with me! segunda-feira, 12 de Abril de 2010 23:58:11

My heartfelt condolences to the families of the crash victims and to the Polish people domingo, 11 de Abril de 2010 10:58:54

Trying "block" schedule approach. sexta-feira, 9 de Abril de 2010 09:43:46

Extending Flight Web Service for performance testing quinta-feira, 8 de Abril de 2010 14:07:44

Dear friends, Happy Easter! Don't forget to celebrate the next 50 days! segunda-feira, 5 de Abril de 2010 17:10:25

Java regular expressions testbed

Regular expressions are one of the most useful programming tools, particularly for text processing. Java has a nice implementation, stored in the java.util.regex package.

The following page by David Matuszek contains a Java Applet to test regular expressions. I use it a lot and recommend it!

http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~matuszek/General/RegexTester/regex-tester.html

Have fun!

2010-04-25

Maria

Maria by Gen Verde


An amazing musical about Mary, mother of Jesus.
Highly recommended!

2010-04-18

Privacy policy for the social web

Let me make a point first: "Anything you post on the Internet is out of your control. Forever." This includes anything you search on Google, you post on Facebook, etc. Even if you use privacy settings, or even if you control the Web Server (which you usually don't), someone who reads your data can copy and share it, without your knowledge or consent.

However, there is great benefit in having a presence on the Web. You can let people know more about you and your work.

Just be aware that it is a public presence. So, don't say anything that you would not say in a public place for anyone to hear, for example, in a plaza or in national television.

My current social web policy is the following. I'm using:
- Email as a messaging service;
- Skype as a quick messaging service (sometimes with voice too);
- my personal web page as a "live" business card and CV;
- Facebook as a "live" address book;
- LinkedIn as a "live" business address book;
- Twitter as a quick sharing service;
- Blogger as a sharing service.

So, now you know what to expect from me online. See you around in a "plaza" somewhere ;-)

The ashes of humility

The ashes are out of the earth and into the air. And now we have to wait. Patiently. With the humility to acknowledge that are things greater than us.

Photo from Boston.com's Big Picture

Flash of Genius

Flash of Genius by John Seabrook


This book collects stories about invention and entrepreneurship. All of them are interesting and skillfully written.

Java tools I had never used

...until recently.

javap - The Java Class File Disassembler - Converts class files back to java source code.

JConsole - monitoring tool that uses the extensive instrumentation of the Java Virtual Machine to provide information about the performance and resource consumption of applications running

2010-04-12

IoT@IST MScs 2010

IoT@IST (Internet of Things at Instituto Superior Técnico)

Want to study how RFID meets the Internet and sparks the next IT revolution? Come talk to me! MSc proposals deadline is April 23rd.


I will do a presentation about RFID this Wednesday, 16:00, IST (room F2). It is part of a course in my Doctoral program and it is also a good chance to get started into this exciting research topic. See you there!