Author Archives: Hugo Monteiro

My trip to NY

By Hugo Monteiro | Published: December 11, 2011

In the beginning of November I made a trip to the city that never sleeps, New York. I decided to share  my thoughts about the differences between my country and this big city. In NY, there is a culture of “image selling”. They always try to negotiate something, for instance, I found an homeless guy who negotiated with me, [...]

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Week 1: Testing personal Kanban

By Hugo Monteiro | Published: November 2, 2011

The personal Kanban experience is enforcing the way I define goals each week. When I write on the post-it, that goal is possible because I imagine it how it should be finished. At my first week with this tool, I noticed that with my board always insight I have a global view of the tasks [...]

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Testing Personal Kanban

By Hugo Monteiro | Published: October 23, 2011

“Personal Kanban is a productivity and effectiveness tool for individuals or small groups” - wikipedia. I decided to test the Kanban tool to see if it is really powerful. This tool has two core rules: Visualize your work (imagine what you need to do to accomplish that goal) Limit your work in progress (this is very important, [...]

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The power of a peer group

By Hugo Monteiro | Published: September 30, 2011

How many times, we listen to our friends saying that “it was so good, if I could win the euro millions“, “it was so good if I had 6 months of vacation each year“, “it was so good if I had my own company“… It was so good if my future could depend only on [...]

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Client Certificates and Play!

By Hugo Monteiro | Published: September 30, 2011

Sometimes we need the authentication of the client. That means, for instance, if you want to limit the access to your web application, from the people who has the right certificate. This is possible, using client certificates, which are installed inside the browser, and the user without this certificate cannot access the web application. To [...]

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Keeping the motivation HIGH!

By Hugo Monteiro | Published: August 19, 2011

Our life and work, specially the second, are very focused in goals and deadlines. Many of us had terrible experiences putting together these two words: goals and deadlines. Many companies think that if you have goals and deadlines, and money at the end, without motivation effort inside work environment, you are going to achieve your [...]

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Access DB manager from the PlayFramework

By Hugo Monteiro | Published: June 26, 2011

With the new 1.2 version of play, now it’s possible to see all the tables in the database without needing an external database manager program. I have been developing in play, and I always feel the need of having a database in memory with test data being loaded each time I run the server. With [...]

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I have a networking-based company! A WHAT?

By Hugo Monteiro | Published: June 15, 2011

Yes, a networking-based company. The well-known method to offer services using the knowledge of our friends. Seems strange, but we hear often that we don’t have the expertise to do something, or we don’t know how to make a pie. You don’t need to know any of that. You just need to know a good [...]

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Schools kill creativity

By Hugo Monteiro | Published: May 29, 2010

Ken Robinson talks about how the educational system is killing student creativity.

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Deploying PlayFramework Apps in JBoss

By Hugo Monteiro | Published: April 1, 2010

After you created your web application you need to create the WAR file that will insert the framework and other dependent libs inside the folder that you specify: play war myapp -o myapp.war Now to deploy on JBoss, you need to do some changes on your WAR file: Create a file called jboss-web.xml in the [...]

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