Darlan Ricardo

Thank you for landing here! I'm Darlan, Brazilian and tech enthusiast!

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microsoft launching a Slack competitor - really?

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Yap! Seems like microsoft is doing it too. Recently facebook launched Workplace, and now Microsoft is about to lauch MS Teams . Apparently team communication is more competitive than never. 

It is nice to have different options to choose from. But I kinda love Slack, currently I use Hipchat and Slack for team communication, and enjoy using slack way more, but anyways let’s see the outcome of all this competition.

See ya!

-Darlan Ricardo

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my experience with laravel - this far

I’m a Jr. web developer - well, making my way through :D - at resultate. And though I’ve been a huge fan of Rails, and always tried to find ways of learning it, I recently joined this awesome company that happens to have zero rails apps, and actually no interest in using rails to build anything. 

My passion with rails started with this dude, he made 12 videos teaching how to build web apps with rails, and for me it was like discovering a brand new world of possibilities. At that time I were starting as web developer, and have worked mainly with pure HTML5, CSS3,JS, and I needed something for the backend. Rails seemed to be the best option, later I discovered that it was - and still is -  the cool kid in the block for web developers.

I’ve never been a big fan of PHP, the code seems visually poluted for me, mainly beacause of all the <code> $dollar </code> signs you have to use. - you might say that we have <code>@variable</code> in Rails, okay I got it. - but that’s how I saw it.. 

The magic about rails for me is all the awesome gems, how the directory is divided, everything is well defined in a MVC structure, and the whole thing is easy to understand. But then I started using laravel, and I feel like, that guy that always used windows, and decided to use ubuntu and pretty much loved it. 

Laravel is pretty great I must say, these are the reasons why I think so.

Documentation;

Laravel Documentation is beautifully structured, it has almost everything you’ll need to know, besides the cool design, it is really embracing, cover a lot of concepts from the framework.

Laracasts;

Laracasts is the place for visual learners - like me. There are a lot of video tutorials, series,  and is not only about laravel, you can learn about many other web dev technologies. In case you don’t know it - which you probably do -  I totally recommend you check it out. It’s definitely worth it.

Eloquent;

This guy kinda speaks for himself. It makes our lives so much easier, and in fact is pretty powerful for creating models, data persistence and retrieval - and all those things we love.

Elixir

It supports common CSS and JavaScript pre-processors, and works on top of gulp, so again - making our lives easier  (◔ ◡ ◔).

I’m building this microservice, and by now, I’m having a great time using laravel todo so. 

This has been my impressions this far, and I know I have a lot to learn still, but If you ever wondered about using laravel or not. I totally recommend it .

If you wanted a more in depth review about laravel, sorry, but this is just my brief experience, for that you should definetly check https://mattstauffer.co/blog - It’s awesome.

See ya!

-Darlan Ricardo

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one tool that have helped me a LOT with task management.

One thing that we all struggled with at some point, is time/task management, we all have 24 hours in our day, and in many cases we tend to waste a lot of it with unproductive things. I really believe that separating your goals in smaller tasks is the best way to accomplish them. It helps to see exactly what to start with, and as you complete them, you can measure time more precisely – besides the great feeling of being productive. :D

I’ve been trying to use many different tools to help me manage my personal goals, and have failed to stick to it for too long, either ‘cause they’re too complicated, or didn’t met my expectations. I know there are great apps like Todoist and Evernote that helps a lot, but I couldn’t use for too long, so I started to search for similar and simpler solutions that could best suit me, and found the amazing Workflowly.

Workflowly was used by the slack team, to manage their team and product development process, and is amazingly simple to use. 

After using it for a while, I can definitely say that I’m really satisfied. Now I plan all my stuff there, and love it, the interface is not distracting at all, and I can really focus on just adding my tasks, and completing them. Another great feature is that you can add tags, and mentions, which helps with shared activities. I really recommend trying it ;)

Best!

-Darlan Ricardo

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linguagem / language

Pois é depois de tanto tempo sem escrever aqui, me deparei com algo - apenas para constar, estive passando por várias coisas durante este tempo, faculdade, desemprego, emprego, correria, não-correria, crises, não-crises, e todas essas coisas que acontecem na vida de qualquer homo sapiens nessa terra. - enfim... me deparei com o seguinte, o dilema da língua, a expressividade que a linguagem seja ela a nativa, seja ela a estrangeira me proporcionam, sou brasileiro, amo o inglês, falo português todos os dias, penso em inglês o tempo todo, vivo dividido entre o que me foi dado, e o que conquistei. Mas que complicação, queria ter um local para escrever (em inglês) mas não atinjo, e talvez nunca terei o mesmo nível de conforto usando a minha língua nativa... que coisa! -  ta aí uma expressão que não saberia com exatidão, traduzir para o inglês... Mas qual o motivo de toda essa ladainha? Bem estou escrevendo em português, este é o motivo. Depois de um bom tempo se esforçando para aprender ao máximo uma língua, tu percebe que certas coisas podem ser ditas somente no seu idioma, já que é algo que está intrinsecamente ligado à sua identidade, porque a nacionalidade faz parte de quem eu sou, independente das vantagens ou desvantagens que certas nacionalidades nos proporcionem. 

Então é o seguinte, não sei se vou escrever só em português, nem se só em inglês, nem sei se alguém vai ler este post, (whatever!), mas não da pra ignorar quem você é, com tudo aquilo te faz você, principalmente sua língua. Não que eu tenha tentado ignorar, mas não faz sentido não utilizá-la, nem que seja no tumblr...

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prove’em wrong.

“You can do this!” It is such a simple sentence, that could change everything for someone, but most people aren’t like that. So I’ve been through a class today, and I couldn’t do all the exercicies, ‘cause I had difficulties in understanding each task... I left that class with the most horrible feeling of incapability. I just wanted to hide, never come back, the way my professor looked at me, like... “this guy is stuped.”. That made me feel pretty bad. 

So I came home and decided that I have to prove him wrong, not for revenge or anything, but to prove also to myself that I can do this. I believe that we should encourage one another, rather than just take someone for granted. I know that maybe that person is going through hard times, so I try to be compassionate. 

Have you ever thought about how could it be if we encourage people to be the best version of themselves, instead of stating that they are incapable?

We could make a huge impact. So that is the attitude I am going to take from now on... for myself and for others...Encouragement. For I know how it feels to be underestimated.

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the continuous try.

Sometimes we think it is difficult to keep trying even when we fail. Truth is that nothing in life is much easy... we all have so many different experiences in our lives. Sometimes certain things scape from our hands, even though we had it all. But I really believe that at the end of the day, we must not give up, never give up, of this continuous try...

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Don't give Up, and don't forget.

things I have to remember.

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decisions.

There is something quite dangerous about everydays decisions, I’ve been through a situation recently, and the decision I took there will affect the rest of my life...

So we as humans carry this kind of burden because the smallest decision that we take now can change everything else in our lives, wether it is for good or bad, so... choose wisely always!