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Adobe Flash is officially dead! The date is really emotional to me: in my first job as a web designer, I had to learn flash in a week! Macromedia (which eventually was acquired by Adobe) Flash defined the first decade of my career. Not to be missed, but never forgoten!
Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome Danil Peng Medeiros! Born on August 12, 2016 at 8:49h with 51cm and 2.9kgs in Heildelberg , Germany: that’s 3 kids in 3 different cities in the timespan of 4 years. Daniel and Mother are fine. Caleb and Esther can hardly wait to meet their little brother.
I’ll be both speaking and giving a workshop at IxDA’s Interaction 14 South America on the topic of working in Global Teams. I’d love to see you all there, and if there are any specific challenges of working in global teams you would like to hear me address, add them as a comment to this post below.
Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome Esther Peng Medeiros! Born on February 20th at 17:38h with 3.05kgs and 50 cm at Johanniter-Krankenhaus Hospital in Bonn, Germany: that’s two kids in two different continents. Both baby and mother are fine, although we went through a rough start: Esther contracted an infection right after birth and had to stay for 10 days in an Intensive Care Unit. Praise the Lord she is fine now and safe with us at home […]
Trying to do my part in educating the next generation of designers: last week my son and I watched Apple’s WWDC 2013 keynote together (instagram.com/p/airUpvvWMr/), now we’re reading “Paul Rand: Conversations with Students” (tiny.cc/ts9uyw)! Check it out […]
Fabiane, Itamar and Caleb wish you a Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year!
As you’ve probably noticed, there hasn’t been much updates to this blog in the last two weeks, since I’ve been pre-occupied with having a baby: his name is Caleb Peng Medeiros, was born on October 20th, 2011, weighting 2.5 Kilos (approximately 5.5 pounds) […]
Samurai is the term for the military nobility of pre-industrial Japan […]
Both Chinese (Cantonese) and Portuguese are Macau’s official languages. Other languages such as Mandarin, English and Hokkien are also spoken by some local communities. The Macanese language, a distinctive creole generally known as Patuá, is still spoken by several dozen Macanese […]
The Rosetta Stone is an Ancient Egyptian granodiorite stele inscribed with a decree issued at Memphis, Egypt in 196 BC on behalf of King Ptolemy V. The decree appears in three scripts: the upper text is Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, the middle portion demotic script, and the lowest Ancient Greek. Because it presents essentially the same text in all three scripts (with some minor differences between them), it provided the key to the modern understanding of Egyptian hieroglyphs […]