transientis.com - António Melo’s transient moods

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The 21 st or 22 nd of last month was an interesting date to me. It was, somehow, a turning point.

This might be a transient mood :), but since that day I decided it would be nice trying to start a blog, I’ve bought a wireless router, two external disks for backups (more on this probably on another post) , choose a name for my blog, started the blog in Blogger, bought a domain name and hosted it in a cPanel server, dropped the first blog and set up a WordPress powered one (the one you are reading) installed through the built-in Fantastico installer. Uff, I’m tired!

On the other side, I was thinking buying the wireless router and an external disk since ever (maybe 2005) . And it was mostly the inertia that prevented me doing it.

I really would like to have a deeper understanding of my brain.

For the record, my site is hosted in 100mp.com, and, until now, I’m very happy with it.

Some time ago I bought a wireless router. Basically, I wanted to be able to access the net from anywhere in my home (using laptop).

The router has some standard and advanced features. In what respects to security, it has features that goes from denial of service and intrusion detection to parental control, access control and MAC filtering, for example.

Most of my friends have locked their wireless access the best they can. My net is (at least still) just open. I really don’t mind having my neighbors using it. Using it, not abusing. And, living in a really high floor, I think no one can access it from the street.

Of course I don’t want none of the following:

• to pay more at the end of the month;
• to have my privacy affected;
• to have net speed penalties;
• having someone else using my net access for illicit activities.

In my opinion, it would be nice having people taking this community free access position. I’d like wireless protocols to evolve in a way to promote this community sharing of resources, taking in account the concerns priviously enumerated.

While surfing around, I saw the following post. Nice.
Mark Holton’s Weblog :: Web Application Development: Agile Development — competitive advantage

I didn’t expect it to be so thrilling. Some months ago, when the rumors started spreading inside the company, it seemed just a natural step - in a near future, we would release OutSystems Express Edition

Since its inception, back to 2001, OutSystems has been relatively closed. But now we are opening our doors, or at least I hope so.

We just finished the build (known as alpha 1), and selected end-users will be trying it.