AgileAndArt

I'd like to announce the release of my first book, PARA TODOS . It's a poetry book and there will be a small party with autographs and wines at Livraria Cultura in Shopping Villa Lobos. In the party, Trio Dellaz will sing for one hour and I will read some poetry of the book. Everybody is welcome to this great moment!

I finally finished my M.Sc. degree in Computer Science. I already have the video, which is right now just in portuguese, but soon I'll have subtitles in English. I'd like to thank everybody who came to watch the performance. I hope you have a lot of fun with it. Thanks for my N95 I had two cameras filming the event, so I've got a great final result using Apple iMovie software for edition. Here is the video, enjoy!

I'd like to share with you 2 scenes that I made in the theater. One was in 2005 in a play called a "Sétima Arte" - the scene is a trio singing Day'o Banana. The other is on a play called "O Banquete da Vida" - the scene is a guy selling Mentos in a train. Both were done in the Oficina dos Menestréis group.

I invite you to my master thesis defense next monday at IME-USP - Here's is the address and time: Rua do Matão, 1000 - Universidade de São Paulo. 2pm in Auditório Jacy Monteiro The thesis is about Patterns for introducing new ideas in the software industry. You can read the whole thesis in this address (unfortunately, in portuguese, not yet the final revision, so I'm accepting comments). Here's the abstract in English: The software industry is very dynamic and new ideas arise all the time from virtually any part of the world. It is not guaranteed that these ideas will be adopted, mainly because, among other obstacles, the solution may imply in having people change their way of thinking. Different from people, computers recieve a well defined command and execute it precisely. We should take into account that human beings are independent and unpredictable. Despite of this unpredictability, we can find some behavioral patterns to help us deal with several situations, allowin...