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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

Hello!

This week I started in a new company as a web developer (still working with PHP and mainly with Joomla!, which is not bad but not that challenging…). Christian has also switched jobs and now he is a Java developer (at least he has left Delphi behind, which is good news). I would like to tell you that our distributed hash cracking system (aka Bifröst) is in “sleep” mode until we find some time to re-activate it.

I’ve presented a technical session at the Joomla!Day Brazil which occurred in São Paulo on the 11th. My plane got a 22 hours delay which were not funny at all. The event was great but unfortunately I had missed half of it :/ It is always nice to speak about new geeky features to an excited audience…

My new job is allowing me to create some really cool stuff with JQuery, Ajax and Flash. And I have plenty of time to keep this blog up to date.

I don’t remember if i’ve mentioned this before, but I’m also trying to add Bluetooth capability to the great JGroups. DIdn’t have much success so far. As many of you are new visitors, I was wondering if anyone knows how to do multicast with Bluetooth (someone told me I’ll need a PAN Profile enabled device, but for now I just would like to test it on simulators). I’ve been trying to find answers and help in the Java community but didn’t get many insights. I don’t care to implement it on my on I just would like to know if it hasn’t been implement by someone before.

anyway.. if you have any suggestion/sample/idea to share, please get in touch.

-bigo

howdy,

this is our third [and hopefully, the last] attempt to create a nerd blog. Once we are still deciding if we're gonna post in pt-BR or [pseudo]en-US, I'm practicing for my english test this thursday

[update]we decided to post as much as we can in English because we don't have enough nerd friends who speak portuguese :-)[/update]

cheers