Whois Paulo Querido

Hello, my name is Paulo Querido. I'm a Portuguese journalist and writer.

From 2010 to 1013 I had a daily column at Jornal de Negócios; I wrote for several leading media in Portugal like Expresso, Público and Correio da Manhã.

I did almost everything in newspapers with a typewriter, a phone and a telex machine in the eighties, a CP/M computer and a CompuServe account in the eighties and the Internet in the nineties.

I still do things but the names have changed around us: MacBook Air, PHP, Javascript, Python, Apache, Linux...

I wrote a lot about technology and Internet. I still write, but these days mainly about economics and trends.

Actual Connections

My column at Jornal de Negócios, a leading, economics portuguese newspaper (archive here).

I worked for Belgium television RTL website most of 2012.

I provided web apps and private reports (newsroom intelligence) to Jornal de Negócios, Record and Correio da Manhã.

Technical Skills

  • I use mainly PHP and Linux shell scripting. Did Perl in the past.
  • At the frontend I am a HTML 5 + Javascript guy.
  • Learning Python.
  • I can run a server in a few minutes on the Amazon cloud services (AWS, EC2, S3).
  • I can tweak a MySQL or an Apache with modest success and be proud of it.
  • I can install a Varnish accelerator with simple configuration. It helps.

Milestones

  • Bought a Spectrum 48K in 1983. I wrote a BASIC application (we call them "programmes" at the time) to do the math beyond the soccer scores (before we made them by hand with the help of a handheld calculator, every sunday). We reduced the execution time from 3 hours to 20 minutes! It was my first computer-assisted journalism product ;)
  • First modem in 1988. 1.200 baud and lots of garbage.
  • CompuServe account in 1989.
  • First interview via Internet ever published in my country's press (used CompuServe to send questions and receive answers from a portuguese sailor in the middle of the ocean during the Whitbread Ocean Race 1989/90).
  • Co-founded a commercial BBS ("A Rede", that means "The Network" in portuguese) circa 1992.
  • I wrote the first of five books related to Internet in 1988. It is titled "Homo Conexus".
  • Before the dot-com crash I was editor-in-chief of "Recortes", a web-only technology magazine.
  • Discovering Perl an Perl/Tk in 2000/2001 was really something!
  • In 2003 I rebranded my "webpage" to "blog". In June I started weblog.com.pt, probably the first blogging system made in Portugal.
  • 2008 was the year I turned into a journalist-programmer. First web app: OE2009, a stream about the discussion of the portuguese public budget for the next year, combining news, blogs, tweets and delicious bookmarks, with a crowdsourcing component.

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