mvalente.eu/mv.* Heavy Mental Stuff

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: OOXML Followup
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 07 20:56:21 GMT

Regarding today’s meeting of the Portuguese CT on
OOXML, I’ll let others fill you in on the details.

Just a quick note to all the doomsayers, the usual
I-blog-but-dont-do-jackshit crowd: I didnt feel as
lonely as last time and, in the words of Yogi Berra,
it aint over till the fat lady sings… So forget all
about the ridiculous stuff like lack of chairs (when
you blab on about it, you just look as ridiculous as
the original gaffer); start dealing with the serious
issues because there will definitely be more chairs
around next time.

— MV

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: Perfect Cover, Perfect Video
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 07 00:05:21 GMT

Perfect Day – BBC Promo, Several Artists
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNoBQn4BLMU

“Just a perfect day
You make me forget myself
I thought I was someone else
Someone good…”

I dont know why but this song reminds me of my
niece Hanna and her mother’s sad and early death.
Perhaps its the grief of days now lost, the struggle
that some days are and the promise of days to come.

I wish my sister was here to listen to her baby girl
learning to say “borboleta”…

— MV

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: YAUOSRE
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 07 20:03:21 GMT

Yet Another Uneventful, Open Source Run, Elections…

http://www.autarquicas.mj.pt/

Of notice:

– I correctly guessed the first district (Castelo) able
to provide counting results
– no matter what the electoral process is (country-wide,
city-wide, referendum, Hondt, tens of districts or
thousands of them), the time it takes to finnish is
a constant (3 hours, from 7 pm till 9.30/10.00 pm)
– there will always be a last minute IP address to add
to the ACLs
– there will always be someone who botches the webservices
client and wrongly fires hundreds of connections
– at 8.50 pm we hit a peak at 3Mbits/sec load, 190 hits/sec
with a total of 1.5 million hits between 6pm and 10pm

— MV

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: The Right Way for Web Development
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 07 20:03:21 GMT

http://wicket.sourceforge.net/

These guys have it ..almost.. right…

———————————-
Separation of Concerns
Wicket does not mix markup with Java code and adds
no special syntax to your markup files.

<span wicket:id=”message”>Message goes here</span&>

public HelloWorld()
{
add(new Label(“message”, “Hello World!”));
}
———————————-

Now if only they didnt use XML namespaces for the
wicket: namespace (there’s no need, id could be used
directly) and there was no Java (Javascript could be
used to do asynchronous server requests, probably REST,
to get the data, probably JSON), this would be the
perfect thing.

— MV

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: Enterprise OpenSource
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 07 20:01:21 GMT

http://eosdirectory.com/

A great resource for finding enterprise grade
open source software.

— MV