07 Dec 07 Ruby on Rails 2.0 is out!
Ruby On Rails 2.0 has just been officially released.
If you open your command prompt now and run: gem install -y rails
The rails 2.0.1 will be installed and you will be ready to play!
There are not that many new features, but there are some cool new ones 
- Beter named routes for REST
- REST is the standard way for working from now on.
- Rails has support for multiple rendering engines now (for 1.x there was only ERB)
- Better exception handling
- Sessions can now be stored in cookies
- sexy_migrations was integrated into rails core (most of it at least)
Take a look at DHH’s official post and start to play
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10 Mar 07 A little upset with Nokia (N80 to N80i not availlable in brazil)
I have seen in a lot of places that you can upgrade your Nokia N80 to a N80i using the Nokia Software Update.
I have tried it lots of times …
But it seems that it is not available here in brazil 
after that the only thing I have to say is Nokia sucks!
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04 Feb 07 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Well, after watching a double Harry Potter session on TNT, I was looking at my e-mails and fond that the pre-order for the seventh and last book from Harry Potter series is opened.
If you want to be one of the first readers, just follow this link to the standard version, or this one for the deluxe version, I’m not sure about the difference between them, but the books from this series are a lot better than the movies 
the only problem is that they do not have a digital version for us to carry on our cell phones
PS.: I think this year we well have another Harry Potter movie too
And good reading for all.
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Tags: news
20 Jan 07 Get paid to own an E62 phone
Yes, that is right, Amazon will pay you $24,99 to own a E62 phone, at least if you accept to sign a contract with Cingular …
Jut check it here …
But if you prefer an Nokia N72 (Unlocked)
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18 Jan 07 More geeky news (POSIX for S60)
The Nokia Symbian consortium announced that they will port some of the POSIX libraries to the Symbian OS …
Why this is good news?
Because all Unixes today are POSIX compliant, and all the Unix/Linux developers today, know how to program to the POSIX libraries, and all that people will know how to program to Symbian after it become POSIX compliant too …
And I think it will make possible the port/migration of many well known windows, and linux applications to our cell phones running symbian …
What does it means to us? well, lots of news apps to full the phones memory (probably lots of freewares too) …
And a big new market for software developers …
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Tags: cool factor, news, programming
17 Jan 07 Lots of freewares, and a way to read Open Office documents in your Symbian (at least if you are geek enought)
In the nokia Open Source portal, there is a port of the Python scripting language for S60 devices (this means that you can run it on your N80 too )
you can get it here: http://wiki.opensource.nokia.com/projects/Python_for_S60
but the best thing, is that you do not need to know how to program in python to use it, there are lots of freeware applications already written for you enjoy …
the full list is here: http://wiki.opensource.nokia.com/projects/PyS60_applications
Here is a small list:
- nA Cell Tax Tracker This small application get your current cell phone costs from supported telecommunication providers over a short message. It allows you to analyse your costs and get statistics. Written in python for S60.
- PyS60Remote This set of programs enables you to use a Series 60 mobile phone to control your win32 PC. The two devices connect via Bluetooth. Mainly suitable as a wireless presenter or remote for your video player.
- EasyEdit 1.44 for 3rd Ed
- Fupper is a Flickr upload tool for PyS60. It also includes a full FlickrAPI implementation that is based on Beej’s Python FlickrAPI.
- OpenOffice (odt) reader .. a basic ODT reader using pyexpat port of pys60. Supports basic formating: bold, underline, etc. and text colors
- Tetris Lost code for Tetris has been reposted in the Forum at last
- EasyEdit : a full-featured, simple, intuitive text editor by chetbox.
- PyS60 Python editor 1.03 new editor for editing your scripts on your phone. application and source code v1.03
- pyED : Python Editor for Series 60 is an sourceforge project for creating an open source Python source code editor, written in Python by CyKe64, for Series 60. Once you have Python for Series 60 installed on your phone, pyed enables you to edit your scripts directly from your phone. Very cool!
- client ShoutCAST for pys60 Source code is under Creative commons licence. Now you can listen radio on internet (MP3) and also Real Audio if you have real audio playerHelix !
- RemoteCamera A script to take photos and FTP them to a server of your choice.
There are many more apps out there, and if you are a programmer like myself you can create your own apps …
So, enjoy the freewares, and write some more if you can
If you want to write some python apps for your phone, you can start with this books:
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Tags: cool factor, freeware, multimedia, news, programming
13 Jan 07 YAPAIP (Yet Another Post About iPhone)
Ok, I know that every one else has already wrote a post about the new buzz Apple iPhone.
yes, we have to tell Apple iPhone because there is already other iPhone around there …
but the purpose of this post is to talk about what I think about it, even if I have never touched it before …
I just loved the design of that thing, but I can not like very much a smart phone with a closed platform, and Steve Jobs told that just Apple would be able to create new apps for it.
But if I forget this little thing, the iPhone seems to be a great toy, with a very low battery time
unfortunately I do not think it will be in Brazilian’s market untill 2009
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12 Jan 07 New blogger and new theme
I have just upgraded this blog to the new blogger beta.
with it I just picked up a new template too!
I just did not figured out how to configure correctly the feedburner feed flares to work, and how to remove that link bellow to the standard feed
but it is plenty of new features …
Thinking about using the “Custom Domain”, but just if I can write interesting enough posts to triplicate the readers , I have today only about 40 readers a day (can some of the other symbian bloggers place a link to this blog? thank you a lot!).
Thanks for all you who came here some times
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09 Jan 07 Yahoo! Go 2.0 beta just launched.
Yahoo just launched Yahoo! Go 2.0, it is in beta yet, but different from the first version, now they support lots of cellphones and you does not need to have an account in one of the supported operators you can download the application directly from yahoo (Great News for N80 owners like myself, no more distinction from us the the N80ie owners).
I was planing to post a full review for the application today, but when I was going to download it using my N80 browser, Yahoo! just showed a page telling me that tie beta was full, but they have an option for you to let your mobile phone number and they will tell you when you can go back there and download your copy of Yahoo! Go.
so lets wait a little and see how long will it take …
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20 Dec 06 Some links to other Symbian sites
While I have not finished my review of the N80, I`ll start posting here just some links to other Symbian sites, I hope they an be usefull for others that are starting in this smartphone world too …
Sites about the Symbian OS or Series 60 specific.
All About Symbian Series 60 section
Symbian OS
Series 60
My-Symbian
Symbian One
S60 tips
Symbian Freak
N80 Geek
Themes or Application Downloads
Mobile Themes
Mobile9
Series60v3.com
Symbian OS 9.1 Applications
Whell, this is the initial list of links, I hope they help some one …
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