After a gruesome weekend with lots of coffee and snacks I’ve managed to finish the design and look of ruby in portuguese,

WeBreakStuff won the first place for best user interface award at RailsDay 2006.

RailsDay 2006 was a 24 hour event in which anyone could participate with a team and create a web application in Rails, there were prizes and it was a great opportunity to show off your great skills in,well, whatever your keen at.

Anyway, WeBreakStuff is a Portuguese startup, composed off Frederico Oliveira, Tiago Macedo and Pedro Eduardo Lemos Freitas and they entered the competition with weRateStuff (original name!). In Fred’s words a “social review-anything web application”.

The interface was in fact simple and beautiful. The team is in the meantime working on Goplan (an online project-manager in Rails) and they also made a post about their recent victory, read it here.
You can also check out the reviews that fellow blogger Evan Weaver made of the rest of the participants in the competition, there were alot of different ideas and I guess everyone ended up gaining positive experiences from this event. See you guys next year.

Well, it’s no surprise that the company behind Ruby On Rails and Basecamp are doing their stuff in Apple’s hardware but now it’s recorded on video and on Apple’s Education site for everyone to see.

The video also provides a quick profile of 37Signals, their goals, philosophy (no bloated software, small is beautifull, etc, etc) and plans for the future.

You can find the video here. (you’ll need Quicktime, doh!).

Once in a while someone decides to break all conventions and think “outside the box”, in other words, forget what is done so far and assumed as “normal” and create something new, beautifull and usefull.

Designer Julia Burke did this and won a silver medal from Idea Awards, with her Plug-In design which avoids you bending down to insert a device into the power outlet and looking plain stupid with your arse up.

Anyway, look at the full info at PLUG-IN - Why Weren’t They Designed Like This In The First Place? (oh Gizmo).

I never thought I would *ever* write about Pokemons in my journal, oh well, there’s always a first time.

Nintendo (europe) created a site where you can check what Pokemon are you based on your personality! You just have to answer a few questions and off you go.

It seems I’m a MudKip, anyway I don’t know much about Pokemon so I don’t know if it’s the most powerfull one out there but by the look of the little critter, it seems more like it to be the cute one who gets beat up every episode. *sigh*

Anyway, to discover what Pokemon you are head over to Pokemon personality test.
Some comments would be nice, which Pokemon are you?