Book: A Jornada do Escritor: Estrutura mítica para escritores by Christopher Vogler. Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️. Essential reading for those who wants to write a book. I really like the way that Christopher explores movies like Titanic, Pulp Fiction, and The Lion King. The examples of the Hero’s journey based on this movie really helped me to understand the various archetypes and how they interact in each stage of the journey. Just read it for the first time but I’m sure that I’ll read it again soon and keep it on my desk for reference.

Book: A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1) by Arthur Conan Doyle. Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️. A good book! I always wanted to read Sherlock Holmes books but never tried it. Thanks to BBC’s Sherlock Series I decided to give it a try. The good part is that I could understand a lot of jokes that the TV show made and the differences from the 189x to 201x. :) I really recommend you to read it if you like stories on investigation.

Book: Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture by David Kushner. Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️. I love this book. The two Johns created an empire by using the engineering capabilities of Carmack with the enthusiasm and ideas of Romero. There are some other thoughts to put in this book. The two Johns are doing great and creating amazing games following the startup way of life, relying on junk food and diet coke.

Book: Cartas do Papai Noel by J.R.R. Tolkien. Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️. Eu realmente admiro o J.R.R Tolkien. Esse tipo de livro mostra como ele usava toda a sua imaginação e suas habilidades para fazer coisas para os filhos dele. Para quem é fã das obras do Tolkien vai curtir bastante esse livro. Se você é pai (não é o meu caso) talvez veja uma forma legal de lidar com o seu filho pequeno e fazer brincadeiras durante os anos.

Book: The Big Drop: How To Grow Your Wealth During the Coming Collapse by James Rickards. Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️. TL; DR - A lot of theories about the next economic crash, if you want to know some connections between gold, dollar and other different investments to protect you in case it happens, it may be a good book for you. I’m Brazilian and some part of the economic context is not the same here, but there are some parts make totally sense.

Book: Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt. Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️. Nice book with really interesting statistics done in some sets of data. It remembers me about the whole “big data” trend that we have today. In some parts it looks like the comparison of the global warming and the number of pirates (as my “Statistics One” professor and the book author used to say: “correlation does not imply causation”), but the whole idea behind the studies are really interesting.

Book: Management 3.0: Leading Agile Developers, Developing Agile Leaders by Jurgen Appelo. Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️. I read this book in 2015 when the product director of the company I worked for suggested to buy a bunch of copies and do a book club on that book. The director (and many of us, leaders) liked the ideas here, but there were not not attractive to the rest of the directors. Needless to say that reading this didn’t change anything in how the company does things.

TL;DR: I like Colemak, and it is a very good layout. I found some equivalent pros and cons, so I can’t recommend it to anyone without a little bit of philosophy. :) For those who don’t know Colemak, it is a keyboard layout created to make the most used keys stay in the home row as well as make you swipe between your right and left hand. There is a keyboard layouts heatmap for you to understand the benefits of using a keyboard layout that was designed to help you to be comfortable and fast when typing instead of one that helping the operator to not jam the typewriter.

Esse ano fui chamado para palestrar em todas as edições do Encontro Locaweb que acontecem por várias cidades do Brasil! Palestrei em 6 cidades de estados diferentes, e aconteceram na seguinte ordem: Belo Horizonte Curitiba Recife Porto Alegre Rio de Janeiro São Paulo Adicionei os links para as fotos dos eventos na listagem acima. :) Minha palestra se chama “As escolhas do desenvolvedor” e fala sobre as escolhas que fazemos durante nossa carreira de desenvolvedor, escolhas com linguagens, configurações de servidores, deploy, equipe, testes e etc.

TL;DR I’ve been at OSCON this year (thanks to Locaweb) and this post will summarize my impressions about the conference. I spoke at Locaweb Tech-Talks about it and you can find my slides here (in portuguese). OSCON (Open Source Conference) is one of the most important open source conferences of our time and happened in Portland this year as usual. Portland is a great city, the one I liked the most until now, it doesn’t have high car traffic, MAX (the train) took us for most of the places we wanted to know, nice people all over the place, great convention center and a lot of other benefits.