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Rob Gonda posted this link on his Plaxo page, I found it very interesting and decided to copy it here to my friends in Brazil who read my blog. Sean Percival is the author of the article: The Story (so far) of Twitter.

As always, Charlie Arehart give us good tips and excellent advisory. Here is the link to his post with several topics about web development. http://http://www.carehart.org/blog/client/index.cfm/2009/6/23/useful_topics_better_explained

I was following the SQL list and came across a post from Jim Gotwald where he showed his solution to convert a time string into a decimal value (ex: ’10:30′ to 10.5). So I decided to write a custom function where you can either pass a complete date as a string or just the time [...]

Peter Elst published this cool video on YouTube.

Last month, during my vacation in Rio de Janeiro, I took the opportunity to accept an invitation from the educational foundation Dom André Arcoverde in Valença (State of Rio de Janeiro) to talk about current web technology  in the United States. I spoke to the Faculty of Information Technology about ColdFusion and other Adobe products [...]

I’m back from my 3-week vacation in Brazil. Too sad ! I wish I had more weeks to stay on the beaches of Rio de Janeiro and the northeast. Well, I’ll start writing technical articles again, but first let me introduce to you a place for those who want to spend some time in Rio [...]