Category Archives: brazil

Soda is cheaper than Water

(at least here in Brazil)

These prices were taken from http://www.paodeacucar.com.br, Sao Paulo, in the date of this post. Compare them:

Soda (Brazilian Guarana):

Guarana Tai

Versus standard natural Water:

Agua Indaia sem gas

The soda has approximately a R$ 0,92 price/liter ratio, versus R$ 1,25 price/liter of the natural water bottle. Some years ago, I would never imagine soda being so much cheaper than water. This just show us how the world is really turning fast.

Even being more expensive, I have no doubt that water is simpler than soda, and more healthy too. Hey, they use water in soda production process!

My message:

Even when the flavored (more complicated) solution seems to be cheaper and more attractive, many times the simpler solution is more healthy.

Think about it when making your next decision about technology and software design. Please.

RejectConf SP’07 and Conexao Java 2007

RejectConf SP'07

It was a great time last weekend, spending part of my holiday at RejectConf SP’07 in Brazil, “our first relevant conference”, as said by Fabio Akita.

Attendees

The lectures were really great and the coffee-break (thanks Caelum) really came on the right time. During his RSpec talk, Danilo Sato created a web application to rate the presentations. As you can see there, the coffee-break shined. It was a pleasure to meet new people from our community and to see old friends.

I talked about the most fantastic project nowadays and fortunately people seemed very interested about it. Get the slides.

RejectConf SP'07

One week before (10 Nov 2007), I was at Conexao Java 2007 and gave a mini-course (~6 hours) about JSF, Ajax and Richfaces. Great time too, thanks to all attendees!

You can get the slides and code here. More info at the Caelum Blog (pt-BR).

Brazilian Rails RejectConf SP’07

Unfortunately, we still have few events related to Ruby on Rails here in Brazil. Fabio Akita started the movement to change it.

We are organizing an event here in São Paulo – Brazil (link pt-BR), similar to RejectConfs. It will happen on November 17, 2007.

If you are close to São Paulo this day, do not miss it.

Update: rubyonrailsworkshops.com is now listing our event and Geoffrey Grosenbach talked about it in his last Ruby on Rails podcast. Great.