Top 11 Technologies of the Decade

1 - Smartphones: The Pocketable PC
2 - Social Networking: Friended
3 - Voice Over IP: Setting Phone Service Free
4 - LED Lighting: Blue + Yellow = White
5 - Multicore CPUs: Processor Proliferation  :D
6 - Cloud Computing: It's Always Sunny in the Cloud
7 - Drone Aircraft: How the Drones Got Their Stingers
8 - Planetary Rovers: Are We Alone?
9 - Flexible AC Transmission: The FACTS Machine
10 - Digital Photography: The Power of Pixels
11 - Class-D Audio: The Power and the Glory
See details at: http://spectrum.ieee.org/static/special-report-top-11-technologies-of-the-decade

Flutter: controls applications with gestures

https://flutterapp.com/home/

Controlando aplicativos por gestos. Empresa foi adquirida pela Google.

Checking For Normality Using R

This video teach you how to check for normality using R. Very simple and useful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6-uOUi4gcA

How to install R in Ubuntu

The follow page give you step-by-step how to install the R in Ubuntu.

http://cran.es.r-project.org/ or you can choose the R mirror of this page: http://cran.r-project.org/mirrors.html

Click in "Download R for Linux" link  then click in "Ubuntu" link.

If you obtain the GPG error this page can help you to solve this problem:

http://blogs.helsinki.fi/bioinformatics-viikki/documentation/getting-started-with-r-programming/installingrlatest/

Brazilian citation scheme outed

"Mauricio Rocha-e-Silva thought that he had spotted an easy way to raise the profiles of Brazilian journals. From 2009, he and several other editors published articles containing hundreds of references to papers in each others’ journals — in order, he says, to elevate the journals’ impact factors."


More in: http://www.nature.com/news/brazilian-citation-scheme-outed-1.13604


I think in this scheme there are two problem: the "Jeitinho Brasileiro"* and CAPES policy.



* "The word jeitinho (pronounced zhay-cheen-yo) is a commonly used expression in Portuguese that describes the Brazilian knack for finding a way over an obstacle, around a problem, or out of a jam. " ...

"Brazilians use the jeitinho to get what they want, ..." 
(http://www.jeffreyluke.com/Brazil_Diary_postscript/Brazil_Diary4Brazil%20is%20the%20Country%20of%20the%20Future.htm)

32 OpenMP Traps For C++ Developers

Very usefull for who are working with OpenMP

http://www.viva64.com/en/a/0054/#ID0ENXKO

Palestra sobre o livro "Como Ler Livros"

Palestra sobre o livro "Como Ler Livros"

Proferida por José Monir Nasser na É Realizações.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=347d65S4mQs

E apresentação em

http://fernandonogueiracosta.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/como-ler-livros.pdf

Os 20 profissionais estrangeiros mais procurados

"Em todo o mundo, a imigração é um assunto controverso e imigrantes estão sujeitos a restrições. Mas profissionais altamente qualificados têm uma posição especial dentro do contingente de 200 milhões de imigrantes internacionais - eles estão em alta demanda em diversos países."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/portuguese/noticias/2013/04/130326_wanted_migrants_clickable.shtml

How to add LaTex packages in Ubuntu

If the package in the sty format:

1. create a new directory under tex tree

–> sudo mkdir /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/

2. copy the package inside the new directory

3, run the following command

–> sudo mktexlsr


Source: http://ivanky.wordpress.com/2010/02/05/installinglatexpackages/

Data structure in C++

Free and good books:


http://opendatastructures.org/ods-cpp.pdf
http://www.sheekh-3arb.info/islam/Library/books/programming/Data-Structure-Course.pdf