Gonçalo Valério

Recently i realised that the system that i use to blog isn't the most appropriate and that was preventing me from writing, because of the maintenance and of steps needed to submit a article (too mutch work to submit something).

The year of 2012 for the Internet was definitely the year of the "massive open online courses" with some startups of online education stepping up to the big stage (

It's time to pack my feed list and move away from Google reader, something that I had already tried and failed before, because this time the service will be

Generally when I have to develop a website or web application, I use technologies and frameworks that I am used to work with and I have more than basic knowledge about them, in most of the cases it turn out to be django and in some of t

Have you ever played “bomberman”? Yesterday I found that some guys made the classic even better. Just go to bombermine.com and you will be able to play the game in a huge scenario against hundreds of other people in a massive multi-player game.

I already reshared this post on Google+ but i think the video is just too awesome to not publish here in the blog too. So here it is, a twenty minute tour of the International Space Station:

Another year and another codebits edition has come and gone. This time i had to enter the 48h programming competition.

Just take a look on what arrived to my mail box yesterday morning:

... you will find the atlantic pearl also known as "Madeira island".

One thing that I don't like is having a big chunk of my screen area wasted with browser's toolbars. Generally, i try to remove all of them, leaving behind only the minimum required to browse the web, this way I'm able to maximize the area used for what really matters.