Julho 2008 - Bruno Silva

New “gadget” from Microsoft Research

Surface on a sphere. It’s kind of a different interface. Microsoft Surface Sphere

Published 29 Jul 2008 14:21 by Bruno Silva » Bruno Silva - Technology Blog

Filed under: Web, Microsoft, Curiosities

Cuil - Search Results

See the first result? It’s this website. See that foto associated with my website? It is not me. It is some other Bruno Silva which is a professional football player. Bad association… See the second result? It is a webproxy, linking to my...

Published 28 Jul 2008 20:48 by Bruno Silva » Bruno Silva - Technology Blog

Filed under: Web, My Life, Curiosities

Have you heard about Cuil?

It’s a new search engine that claims to be the world’s biggest search engine (at least concerning the number of indexed pages). There is a lot of people interested in this potential new Google rival. Cuil is supposed to be read as “Cool”...

Published 28 Jul 2008 19:57 by Bruno Silva » Bruno Silva - Technology Blog

Filed under: Web, Curiosities

Windows Live Agents - Notifications and Automated Messages

I’ve been writing about Windows Live Agents recently, as you recall. Finally I had the time to leave some more tips. First Goal: Trigger a notification (procedure that is scheduled to run some time after it has been triggered and which generate...

Published 24 Jul 2008 20:59 by Bruno Silva » Bruno Silva - Technology Blog

Filed under: Web, Programming, Windows Live

Live Mesh - Quick Review

About a week ago I read on Channel 10 that Live Mesh was available to everyone on the U.S. Sarah Perez even gave me a tip: I could try it too! I just had to change my Windows Regional Settings, to tell Live Mesh servers that I was from the U.S. Shame...

Published 23 Jul 2008 21:05 by Bruno Silva » Bruno Silva - Technology Blog

Filed under: Software, Mobility, Utilities, Windows Live, My Life

Smart Containers Team (UTAD) @ Imagine Cup 2008

The Portuguese team that went to Paris to run for the Sofware Design prize got to the 4th place! It’s awesome. A remarkable achievement for Portugal, which makes me proud. Smart Containers is a great project! Never a Portuguese team has got this...

Published 9 Jul 2008 10:18 by Bruno Silva » Bruno Silva - Technology Blog

Filed under: Imagine Cup

Blog - Archive pagination fixed

I had a bug in pagination when navigating through categories or dates It was due to a customization I made sometime ago to make Wordpress 2.5 work o a IIS web server. Instead of $_SERVER[’REQUEST_URI’]=’/page/1′; It must be if($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'...

Published 8 Jul 2008 21:02 by Bruno Silva » Bruno Silva - Technology Blog

Filed under: Web, Software, Programming

Mozilla Labs - Weave

Weave is an experimental prototype from Mozilla Labs that integrates online services with Firefox. “As the Web continues to evolve and more of our lives move online, we believe that Web browsers like Firefox can and should do more to broker rich...

Published 7 Jul 2008 20:24 by Bruno Silva » Bruno Silva - Technology Blog

Filed under: Web, Software, Mobility, Utilities

Windows Live Agents - Data Sources and Input Matching

After I wrote about getting started with Windows Live Agents , it’s time to go deeper into BuddyScript, the script language that is used in agents development. To make your code easier to manage and even to make it reusable you can create package...

Published 7 Jul 2008 17:59 by Bruno Silva » Bruno Silva - Technology Blog

Filed under: Web, Programming, Windows Live

Getting started with Windows Live Agents

Recently I’ve been exploring the Windows Live Agents SDK. This framework allows you to develop interactive Windows Live Messenger bots. You may already talked to a messenger bot like encarta@conversagent.com which allows you to search information...

Published 5 Jul 2008 17:17 by Bruno Silva » Bruno Silva - Technology Blog

Filed under: Web, Software, Programming, Windows Live

Advertisement in Windows Live Messenger

In understand that to make Windows Live Messenger profitable and free to all of us to use it has to have some kind of advertisement system attached to it. Sometimes these ads are useful, since they are different for each country and there are several...

Published 2 Jul 2008 13:48 by Bruno Silva » Bruno Silva - Technology Blog

Filed under: Web, Windows Live, My Life, Microsoft