June 9, 2011 by Uilton
My company was featured on the June issue of PEGN Magazine.
Our software is attractive because scale well. We can grow our customer base without changing the company. Now we are developing an algorithm to recommend airplane tickets, group buying offers and classifieds. As co-founders we have expertise in technical, advertising and commercial areas. Our tip for new entrepreneurs is to create a team of co-founders that complement each other.
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February 28, 2010 by Uilton
You don’t need to read statistic reports or visit the notable programmers list of Wikipedia to realize that we don’t have lots of girls working with computing. For who works in the field this fact is so natural that we don’t even talk about it (except when someone makes a joke).
I’ve always thought that the rareness of women was not a problem of computer science alone, because it’s easy to observe that sciences tend to have a bigger proportion of men. But toke my attention that disparity in CS is static or even shrinking according to an article published on New York Times:
“For decades, undergraduate women have been moving in ever greater numbers into science and engineering departments at American universities. Yet even as they approach or exceed enrollment parity in mathematics, biology and other fields, there is one area in which their presence relative to men is static or even shrinking: computer science.”
According to specialists, the social factor is determinant explaining why women don’t choose computer science. An article on ScienceDaily, affirms that women shy sciences and engineering because they think it’s a lonely activity. In complement, on cited NYTimes article, the scientist Dr. Jan Cuny, affirms that the nerd stereotype is a big problem.
The discrimination is also pointed as a factor of distance. But I think it’s equal to the other professional areas. What happens is that the small number of women working with computing may increase the felling of discrimination.
Another point of view generated a good debate between Steven Pinker and Elizabeth Spelke of Harvard. It’s the idea that exist a difference of abilities between man and woman. This fact would define the different career choices.
Sadly there are no simple answers. The only thing I’m sure is that the organization and sensibility of women would be really beneficial to computing. Affirmative actions from universities and companies are welcome and may help to increase the number of hands we count today.
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October 1, 2008 by Uilton
When making this website I discovered how difficult is to blog with WordPress in more than one language. There is no native support and the plugins or possible hacks can’t provide all needed features.
I was looking for the following characteristics:
But it was not a surprise when I didn’t find a complete solution. I had the same problem with Joomla. A good question is: Why the community doesn’t give much attention to this?
In my search I found the plugins below (with last update and heritage):
Before choosing one of them, I learned how they store the content in order to avoid headaches if I need to migrate in the future.
Below how they save the information:
I choose qTranslate because it has a friendly interface, a good source code organization, an active forum and because of its parentage with Polyglot and xLanguage. This way it’s easy for me to modify the sources and I’m not going to have problems if some day I choose to move to xLanguage, for example.
But it has lots of deficiencies like the impossibility to preview archived posts, the permanent links in one language only, the markups of identification showing around the tags and categories on admin etc. Nevertheless, it solves well the problem until I find a better solution.
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Update 10/02/08:
My first thought was to install two separate blogs and keep one of them as subdomain. But the maintenance of two code bases kept me away from this idea. Kelter on comments provided a link to a clever hack for wp-config.php to use only one WordPress installation. It’s not a perfect solution because all texts of template need to be inside a .mo file, you will have a copy of all tables for each language, no shared comments etc. However comparing with the features of available plugins, it’s a good option.
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Cited plugins:
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