Castelos no Ar

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Maria de Lurdes Rodrigues em O meu precioso novo Estatuto da Carreira Docente

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‘An Inconvenient Truth’ is not the most entertaining film of the year. But it might be the most important.

Source: David Remnick – Ozone Man, New Yorker, 17-04-2006..

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I’m sorry… There is no English version of this article.

Most of my English posts can probably be found in the Web Design related categories. The rest most likely wouldn’t be worth the time spent reading so you’re not missing much anyway!

Thanks for your interest!

I’m sorry… There is no English version of this article.

Most of my English posts can probably be found in the Web Design related categories. The rest most likely wouldn’t be worth the time spent reading so you’re not missing much anyway!

Thanks for your interest!

I’m sorry… There is no English version of this article.

Most of my English posts can probably be found in the Web Design related categories. The rest most likely wouldn’t be worth the time spent reading so you’re not missing much anyway!

Thanks for your interest!

A very amusing tale, illustrating the process of a web site construction, is getting alive as an isometric animation at Icon Factory. Take a look: may serve also as an interesting pedagogical auxiliary to some of your clients!

If you, like me, use only one computer to do all your web page testing on windows, you’ll be happy to know that Jon Galloway has updated his IE7 Standalone Launcher so it accommodates IE7 Beta 3. I know I was!

His script is available at his site, where he describes its simple enough installation process. The script is quite complex and I can only imagine the amount of effort and time that Jon has certainly devoted to do it. In this article I suggest only two very small adjustments that may be useful for those who use other IE standalone versions simultaneously, adjustments that may be not so obvious at a first glance. This adjustments can get specially useful when testing with conditional comments.

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The Microsoft Internet Explorer Weblog (known as IEBlog) has released the news that IE7 will be available on XP (that far we already knew) and that Microsoft will distribute it as a high-priority update via Automatic Updates. This last piece of information is of no little consequence… Specially for the internet professionals!

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New Riders is about to realease the first book by Peter-Paul Koch. It’s called, quite appropriately, ppk on JavaScript and it will be available sometime in the second half of August 2006 in the U.S.. Meanwhile, it’s already possible to pre-order it through Amazon.

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In the last post I subscribed the use of the Hungarian notation for identifiers in JavaScript. I’ve also subscribed the prefixes for JavaScript proposed by Nicholas Zakas. Today I discuss the Robert Reinhardt and Joey Lott’s specially modified for ActionScript Hungarian notation. The use of the Hungarian notation for the ActionScript 2.0 is being questioned by some as the new strong typing of the variables, introduced by this version, already specifies its type. Nevertheless, Hungarian notation is not only about variables types but also about variables and other identifiers uses. If the usage you make of your variables can be typified, then you have a good reason to recur to this notation.

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There are three main well-known naming conventions, used for variables or any sort of identifiers, in computer programming:

• Camel Notation– in this notation the first letter is graphed in lowercase and each appended word (if applicable) with a capital. Example: myIdentifier = 0
• Pascal Notation– all words present in the identifier begin with a capital letter, even the first. Example: MyIdentifier = 0
• Hungarian Notation– similar to the Pascal Notation but with the addition of a prefix composed by one or more lowercase letters to indicate the type of the identifier or its typified use. For example, “i” to indicate an integer: iMyIdentifier = 0

These notations are not standards in any programming language, but to use one of them seems to me (and many others) a matter of programming good practice as it helps to get meaningful identifiers and can contribute effectively to make our code significantly easier to understand to other programmers and analysts that may have the misfortune to have to work with what we’ve written. This seems even more important when we consider web pages/sites, which reside in an internationalized media by nature and may be object of intervention from coders from almost any place.

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