Now for something completely different

It has been an eternity i have posted anything here, not that i have done anything in the meanwhile but simply life took the best of me.
I was lucky enough to get tickets for @WebSummit in Lisbon, and it was a humbling and motivating experience at the same time. Went with my friend and WordPress master and VR/AR enthusiast Pedro de Carvalho @ twitter and it sure opened my eyes and mind for many new things.

One of the projects i have setup my self for this year was to loose weight and take "Improvement Dedication Success" a bit more physical not just on tech side of things. I must recommend Nokia Body Cardio as it during these last past months it has allowed me to tailor my behaviour, exercise and eating habits to make sure it sticks.

Now a word from the man who inspired me the name this blog "Improvement.."

 I'll try to keep posting more frequently.

New job new life new projects.

It seems i have left this place a bit scarse on news for a while now. Starting a new job and getting used to new routines made me neglect this place a bit.
That does not mean i have not been busy :) :

• Working on Spring + JPA + AOP and learning how to deal with some strange errors (if you follow this blog and wish some tutorials and/or to get around common errors please let me know)
• A project i have started in between jobs, leveraging odoo to implement tracking of e-procurement contracts (adapted to the Portuguese reality as that is the one i am more familiarized with) . Connecting those with Odoo projects allows for some really nice features ( https://www.odoo.com/page/project-management. ). 
• Working with my good friends at https://www.linkedin.com/company/good-omens-webstudio (if you do work in Morocco do check them out, they are great at what they do).
• Uploading "Templo dos Jogos" to the Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3QNejga3cw69-NvmFvjyWA/videos )

On a side topic, are there any UK citizens following this blog? I have received some jobs offers from the U.K and i do have a passion for that country, more than for my own country Portugal sometimes (and god knows how it is decreasing), so moving to the  U.K would be a long time project with hopefully citizenship involved. How is it like to be an UK citizen?

Sometimes it is better to have less.

My friends at Good Omens WebStudio shared with me a project that came across them for the Quercus organization. I did a quick analysis of the slow points for them. It didn't take long to do an "oh god".

 The worst is not even shown on that picture:- A 1.6 megabytes ttf font used by one of the css files.
To make matters worse the way Apache is configured the font is never cached by the browser, and it can only start working when it has the font.