fora d' horas.

Firefox 3.6 suffers from unpatched "highly critical" vulnerability.

João Antão — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:49:00 GMT

A vulnerability has been uncovered in Firefox 3.6.x. O bug está classificado como "highly critical" via e Secunia.

The Most Common HTML and CSS Mistakes to Avoid

João Antão — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:55:00 GMT

Shannon Noack a designer in Arizona and the Creative Director of Snoack Studios, just posted a nice article about some common HTML and CSS mistakes to avoid. Read about it here.

First Portuguese magazine with video

João Antão — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:10:00 GMT

This morning I've just bought Sabádo Magazine, funny thing is that today's edition presents the first publicity campaign with the Video In Print (VIP) technology in Portugal. I've been looking and the magazine brings an LCD 5 mm by 3.7mm integrated in two paper sheets, we can watch see six videos with sound and control them with few buttons that make some basic functions.

Inside I've found the speaker, a battery, a 512mb flash disk and some other funny stuff as you can see. We can connect this stuff on the PC to put the battery on charge or change the videos, etc. See photos above.

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Just having some fun with this stuff. See the video here.

a Jigsaw : Red Pony

João Antão — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:21:00 GMT

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"E se pudéssemos roubar a lua ao céu? Esta é a pergunta que os a Jigsaw, uma banda de Coimbra composta por João Rui, Susana Ribeiro, Jorri e Marco Silva, suscitam no primeiro single de um álbum chamado Like the Wolf (2009). Nesta música inspirada na obra The Red Pony (1937) de Steinbeck, os a Jigsaw recordam uma altura em que tudo era possível. O convite para cantar aos bons velhos tempos acaba por surgir e a vontade de acompanhar os a Jigsaw instala-se como um chamamento.

A casa azul é o local secreto onde os a Jigsaw construíram as histórias que fazem parte de Like the Wolf. Desta vez ela foi palco de um trabalho de realização, produção e de montagem de José Pedro Graça. Nesta casa o tempo perdeu o seu poder. O dia é um cenário azul onde as nuvens de algodão se afastam para dar lugar à lua ladeada por pequenas estrelas. Na transição entre o dia e a noite, o cenário sugere um mundo de faz-de-conta que apenas se deixa revelar ao som de “Red Pony”. Mariana Graça e Ana Filipa Vaz (cenários) ficaram a cargo de criar o mundo onde o cavalinho vermelho permanecerá. Ilídio Design (caracterização) transformou os a Jigsaw em personagens de uma história de encantar. De súbito, eles trocam os adereços pelo adufe, violino ou banjo e recuperam momentos insondáveis. Eles garantem que o cavalinho vermelho ainda existe e que está mesmo à nossa porta."

10 de Fevereiro - Pop In - Paris
12 de Fevereiro - Officine - Roma, Italia
13 de Fevereiro - Beba do Samba - Roma, Italia
14 de Fevereiro - Soms Club - Corridonia, Italia
15 de Fevereiro - Porcupine Club - Rovigo, Italia
18 de Fevereiro - Flat - Veneza, Italia
19 de Fevereiro - Ca' MagreLive - Verona, Italia
20 de Fevereiro - Aur-Ora Piccolo Teatro - Bolzano, Italia
26 de Fevereiro - Orfeão Velho - Coimbra, Portugal
27 de Fevereiro - Di Box Open Box - Arruda dos Vinhos, Portugal

TechDays 2010 | Portugal

João Antão — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:22:00 GMT

Is now live.

Check out at http://www.techdays2010.com

PHP and Ruby on Windows Azure

João Antão — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:17:00 GMT

Windows Azure is Microsoft’s Cloud Computing offering. It is more than a simple scalable hosting option as it is truly a platform as a service offering. This allows you to focus on your application rather than the configuring and managing your infrastructure whether you are writing C# or VB.NET or even languages such as PHP or Ruby which are first class citizens in Windows Azure. The Windows Azure Platform includes Windows Azure, which is the OS and hosting environment for web and background services, as well as non-relational storage, queues, and a blob storage for everything from videos to mountable virtual drives. Additionally, the Windows Azure Platform includes SQL Azure, a fully relational database as a service, and Windows Azure AppFabric for industry standards compliant identity management and a service bus for message passing
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But there remain the questions around why, when and how you should move to the cloud, especially if you are using PHP or Ruby. Should I put everything in Windows Azure? Do you have to convert everything you have to ASP.NET? Do you have to write code specifically for Windows Azure? What if my current applications depend on MySQL and/or memcached?

There’s a lot of good news here as it is relatively straight forward to get running in Windows Azure. Once your application is running, however, now you need to look at how to fully leverage the platform offerings architecting for the best usage of the different roles and the various aspects of the Windows Azure offerings such as the AppFabric and SQL Azure. This will help your application make the most efficient usage of CPU, bandwidth, storage and all of the things that cost in a cloud hosting scenario.

In this half day session, we will begin with the why of Windows Azure talking about when it makes sense to make a move and what the prudent migration paths are for your organization. During this time we will tour the various aspects of Windows Azure. Then we’ll delve into the technical aspects of how to run your PHP/Ruby code on Windows Azure. Once we have that mastered, we will move onto leveraging the Windows Azure platform to its fullest.

Registo

Speaker - Josh Holmes

Talks 2.0

João Antão — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:57:00 GMT

TALKS 2.0 é uma série de conferências/tertúlias onde se pretende a partilha de experiências e conhecimentos do interesse de actuais e ex-alunos de Engenharia Informática e demais interessados nos temas abordados.

Pretende ainda dinamizar a comunidade profissional e académica através da partilha da informação, da formação e do apoio ao empreendedorismo. Ainda há vagas para o evento. Mais info em : http://www.talks20.com/index.html

Ladies and Jazzman it sounds kind of funky

João Antão — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:43:00 GMT

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Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny, Jack Dejohnette, Dave Holland.

Have a nice weekend.

120.000 Feet jumping with Silverlight

João Antão — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:11:00 GMT

Red Bull Stratos, a mission to the edge of space, seeks to surpass limits that have existed for 50 years. Felix Baumgartner will undertake a stratospheric balloon flight to 120,000 feet and attempt a record-breaking freefall jump that is expected to reach – for the first time in history – supersonic speeds.

The mission, driven by Red Bull and a stellar team of scientists and specialists, will deliver valuable lessons in human endurance and high-altitude technology.

The project has just been launched, and the Silverlight site is live: http://redbullstratos.com

Silverlight 4.0 and Gaming

João Antão — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:02:00 GMT

Silverlight 4.0 Beta is out there since PDC'09. Lately I've been putting my hands in this latest version and trying to learn more about Silverlight. Well this version comes with a quite few improvements, and you probably have heard most of them. Mostly they are LOB, but there I noticed that are some nice things for game developers as well:

Performance;

Full Keyboard Access in Full Screen;

Right-Click Mouse Events;

Video and Sample Code: Right-click Mouse Events

Mouse Wheel Events;

Video and Sample Code: Handling MouseWheel Events

COM Interoperability;

Video and Sample Code: COM Object Access in Trusted Applications

Bi-directional and complext text, Right-to-left support in controls

Video and Sample Code: BiDi and Right-to-left Support

Full list of features is at Tim Heuer Blog here.

CSS Layout Engine Compatibility

João Antão — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:52:00 GMT

Complete list that shows a lot of details and compatibility issues on the different CSS versions (1, 2.1, 3). You can also see some layout engines used by several browsers.

Web Developers bookmark this one with love.

Portraits in black and white

João Antão — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:17:00 GMT

Lately I've been shooting a lot in B&W, and specially portraits. Quick result right below.

My friend Rui Cunha on this photo.

Microsoft Research : Project Tuva

João Antão — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:14:00 GMT

Project Tuva is a video application developed by Microsoft Research. In it are gathered history, interactive video education, science and rich Internet applications. Project Tuva is an interactive video experience that makes learning about science relevant and exciting means of records of authors, researchers and experts.

It was launched with a series of lectures of the famous physicist Richard Feynman at Cornell University in 1964. In the videos are embedded layers of contextual information such as searchable transcripts and subtitles, extra information synchronized with the video, relationships with Internet resources and the ability to take notes while watching. Quite different from the YouTube clips. To better understand the project check out the website.

I'm running for Imagine Cup - Poland

João Antão — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:07:00 GMT

In the Digital Media Competition, and testing some Stop Motion HD videos.

Wish me luck!

For those that are also competing check out the official website.

The 20 most expected games of 2010

João Antão — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 15:45:00 GMT

Here, and I'm very curious to put my hands over Starcraft2!

What about you?