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hello guys!

this morning I’ve uploaded the first preview version of my personal site. This is something I did just to play with ZendFramework, YUI and jQuery togheter (it’s slow and buggy, but I like it and I hope you like my idea as well).

Check http://www.bigodines.com/zf/ (I haven’t tested with IE yet…). And try to navigate inside the directories and explore some commands. There are only two files availble, both are inside “projects/zf/” and are just a PoC to show it works.

I’m working on a better admin area now and then I’ll add content e more commands (and webservice access).

comments are always welcome!

-bigo

I gave up moving to Canada. It is just too complicated to find an employer there and it takes too long to get a visa with work permit without it. So I decided to move to the lovely London to work on my English and try to find some part-time/contract jobs to improve my technical skills as well. If everything goes wrong, I can work as cleaner, as most of the brazilians do :(.

The visa should arrive by the end of march and I’m very excited about moving to a new place. If we have any visitors from London, drop me a line so we can meet for drinks and nerdy talking.

Hello!

I’m not sure if this post is going to help me or not but I’m blogging anyway

Fact is I wanna move to Canada. I had enough of hot summer and would like to experience living abroad (again). So, if you are a Canadian please check my résumé clicking here and hire me hehehe. If you want, you may contact me directly by e-mail: bigodines ||at|| joomla.com.br

If you’re not sure if it will be worth to read my resume, I’m the main developer of two of the most famous Joomla! sites around the globe: Porsche and UNRIC (please note: developer != designer). Ok, that sound like I’m trying to impress :/. I don’t like these self-promotion lines but sometimes we need it

Now, the bad news:
I’ve been reading about visas and it seems that a permanent work-permit for skilled professionals (According to those HSMP calculators I found on the web I am a skilled professional :-P) can take up to 14 months. A friend told me that if I manage to find a company interested in my services, this waiting time may be shorter (I’m still checking this information).

There is also another alternative: I can go to Canada as a student and work legally 20hrs/week while waiting for my permanent visa… but first I need some networking contacts in Canada.

drop me a line if you need a responsible, dynamic, nerd web developer

today I’ve created my first Joomla! 1.5 extension. It’s a Captcha plugin. My friends were complaining that it was impossible to comment on my portuguese blog so I created this quick-and-funny captcha plugin which can be used with yvComment (or any component you want, because it is really generic).

I’m using the same structure as OSTCaptcha by CoolAcid, so the replacement should be transparent.

Download is available here

You may see a demo visiting my portuguese blog (see the comment plugin..)