Startups: Outplanr. Turn to-dos into work days (Beta)

Software-based startups are the most beautiful ones (my personal oppinion). You "just" need software engineering skills, a good team and one ideia:
Outplanr is yet another startup with portuguese people:

1. https://www.outplanr.com/index.html
2. Outplanr. A plataforma que quer ajudar a evitar horas extra no trabalho – Observador (in PT guys, sorry for that)

SW Construction: AlchemyAPI ("API as a Service" example)

API as a Service are interesting things (services) to be integrated in external information systems, and that typically that are paid per use. One example is AlchemyAPI: AlchemyAPI - Wikipedia

PS. A white paper on Alchemy API with which I have been spammed (not spam but almost). Note: Requires registering:

The Rise of PhD APIs: How AlchemyAPI Is Contributing To The Next Phase Of The API Economy
APIs are no longer just a development tool. In this white paper from ProgrammableWeb, you can learn more about the rise of PhD APIs and how they harbor game-changing potential for organizations and business models.

The FUN Dept.: Which programming languages have the happiest (and angriest) commenters?

Oh yeah! The eternal war between sexes and the programming languages discussion:
Which programming languages have the happiest (and angriest) commenters?

PS: Everyone knows Fortran is the best (widely used) programming language, right?

The FUN Dept.: About passwords, password policies and related stuff

The "good old times" (not) where 123 or Benfica would be good enough for a password everywhere you needed a password are indeed over for good. Here are some Dilbert strips password-related (the strips are not properly "new", just look at the dates):

• This reminds me of the temporary password Rui C has provided me with yesterday: Dilbert Comic Strip on 2012-07-01 | Dilbert by Scott Adams
• This is about new password policies, increasingly demanding (not like that one): http://dilbert.com/strip/2004-12-05
• And this is what all passwords are: several asterisks? http://dilbert.com/strip/2001-09-06

And a list of relevant (portuguese) bloggers is...

And a list of relevant (portuguese technology) bloggers is... here:  

https://weblogs.asp.net/ricardoperes/sites-portugueses-sobre-desenvolvimento-de-software

PS: Provided by my good friend R. Peres. 

Security: "Security Now", the Steve Gibson weekly podcast

Sharing an interesting resource (by Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte), that can for sure help us getting updated (for me it works in the sense that it is an asynchronous way of getting news, good for the ones who don't have either the time or the discipline to put a slot in their calendar to read on the news on a certain area) on the issue of...

• [Personal Computer] Security: https://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm
• The RSS (syndicated content) is available here: http://leoville.tv/podcasts/sn.xml

If you prefer, the traditional way of getting reminded via e-mail reminder, it is also available (see the blog for details on how to subscribe).

PS: Also interesting (and apparently wildly popular in the US) is the "This Week in Tech (TWiT)":
https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech (Video and Audio subscriptions available).
PS2: Another security podcast brought to my attention was Gary McGraw's one: https://www.cigital.com/podcast/

Coding: In C#?

Coding in C#? I've found a good overview (from a Microsoft person, so careful with The bias) that looks like a good summary of where this programming language is going including parallel projects Rosylin, Xamarin, Unity and more:


https://realm.io/news/goto-mads-torgersen-why-take-another-look-at-c-sharp/