Miguel Pinho

It seems that it was one month ago that i was preparing my luggage to go on another journey abroad. Once again Kaunas in Lithuania was my destination but this time for my Leonardo da Vinci Internship. But the reality is that six months passed and it is now time to make the maths and check the results. (more…)

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Anyone that knows me knows that I am a big fan of TED (www.ted.com | Youtube.com/TED).

What I wanted to share with you today is why i feel the way i feel about it. One of the reasons is definatelly the “glimpse of the future” effect and the last talk i watched is a great example of that. The speaker is Mr. Salman Khan is the creator of a “website” called KhanAcademy.com which has already begun to change the way both studentds and teachers are going to experience the whole education.

Please invest 20 minutes of your time and watch this amazing talk…

Visit: khanacademy.org

While watching this great talk I could not stop to think: “I wish that when I was a kid “!

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Last week i saw a video about Shomoney (visit: Shoemoney.com) and one of the things he talked about in his presentation was about a concept that despite makes a whole lot of sense.

I’m talking about “Plan For Piracy” which means that, especially when developing online products, one should always consider that sooner or later his content will end up being stolen and therefore he should plan on ways so that even if the content will be stolen he will get some credit for it.

Here are some examples… (more…)

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Yatta! – We did it!

Last moday was the information seminar that we, the Derpartment Of International Relations of Kaunas University Of Applied Sciences, organized. Being on Valentine’s Day we decided to call it “In Love With Erasmus” and despite containing the word “Erasmus” on its title the seminar was about all the mobility programs available in this institution. Why did we include this word in the title – well to tell you the trutgh it was for marketing purposes. The fact is that “Erasmus” despite being one of many mobility programs is by far the most famous right now. (more…)

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Passing a single variable (not artuments) to a form sounds to be pretty obvious and simple task however it really is not. For the last few hours I’ve been “fighting” with it trying a whole bunh of “trick” but fortunatelly I ended um in this website which give you a pretty easy way of doing it.

Please read and feel the power: http://www.carlowens.me/2010/04/passing-arguments-from-controller-into-a-zend-form/

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