"Para Todos" Release

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!

Master Thesis Presentation - Video

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!

Some Theater Performance

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.

Master Thesis defense - Patterns for Introducing new Ideas in the Software Industry

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, allowing us to achieve our objectives.

This work brings a small introduction into the pattern concept and a presentation of the 48 Patterns for Introducing New Ideas. These patterns provide some insight into the difficult task of introducing new ideas into any organization. We show that if the idea brings cultural changes of any kind, then the task is even more complicated. We also suggest four new patterns that can be attached to the original catalog.

In one of these new patterns we show the great importance of combining artistic activities with the day-to-day activities of people who work in software development and how Arts can help us to introduce new ideas. The study of some practices like theater, painting, poetry, music and meditation allowed us to find some connection elements between the purely mathematical side of the human mind and its creative, artistic one. Software development must be approached as a ``human activity'', rather than a solely technical or logical one. Above all, there are two groups of people involved in the process: the software creators and the users. Although a barrier appears to separate these two groups, in this paper we will assert that this divide can be bridged if IT professional nurture their artistic and interpersonal relationship skills in addition to their obvious technical ones.