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Today I got access to the new Hotmail interface. Pretty, but lacks the usual icons. I feel lost. The icons were a great help on finding what I needed. Now I just have to read the labels… I’m not feeling as a happy user right now… Keep...
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Some highlights from a nice article that I found in my feeds . They are excerpts of the document, text in italic was written by me. Please note that the lines lack some context. .NET Services .NET Access Control Service All communication with the Access...
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After the yesterday’s announcement of Windows Azure , the brand new cloud-based Windows, today I started reading a little bit about it. This new platform seems promising, and I’ll write a bit about it in some of my next blog entries. First...
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Last week I had a workshop about Microformats with André Luís sponsored by PrimeIT and Sapo. It was very interesting and really answered some of the questions I had about Microformats. What are Microformats? Designed for humans first and machines second...
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What to print an article embebed on a webpage, or other online content, but what to reduce the paper consumption? Today I found out a nice online service that allow you to edit a webpage for printing really easily. Sometimes web pages have printing style...
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When you enable Mail Goggles , it will check that you’re really sure you want to send that late night Friday email. And what better way to check than by making you solve a few simple math problems after you click send to verify you’re in the...
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Today I was amazed to realize that my University systems allow you to use the new Portuguese Citizen Card ! I’m pretty sure that almost no one will use this feature, but it is a nice initiative to embrace this new authentication mechanism.
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Ontem necessitei de fazer uma encomenda no site da FNAC, mas não foi propriamente fácil. Fiquei frustrado o suficiente para lhes enviar um e-mail para o Apoio a Clientes. Bom dia. Acabei agora de realizar uma encomenda na loja online, e há algumas coisas...
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Since I’m having trouble to get enough time to complete these post series (1 post was left), I’ll just leave you the source code. It contains a sample of a WCF service that uses LINQ to SQL to retrieve some data from a SQL Server Database...
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Previously I’ve written about how to create data charts using Silverlight. The data was coming from an static array, which is not that useful after all. Now lets see how to use data from an XML file. Bellow you can see an example of the XML file...
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Recently someone told me about a data visualization component library powered by Microsoft Silverlight. What is Visifire? Visifire is a set of open source data visualization components - powered by Microsoft ® Silverlight ™ . With Visifire you can create...
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I’ve previously written that I was using Wordpress PDA Plugin in order to give mobile users a nice user experience. Today during lunch time I’ve upgraded the plugin which now has a iPhone/iPod version. (I must give a word of appreciation to...
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Finally available for us to use it! What can we do? No only explore but also create! So how does Photosynth work? Photosynth analyzes your photos for similarities to your other photos in the set and then uses the information to estimate where the photos...
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While testing a project on which I’m working I accidentally went to TMN’s website (a Portuguese cellphone company) with Javascript disabled. First of all I think that is great that they use a <noscript> tag to warn the user that the...
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Today I was testing a website using a HTML W3C validation tool (XHTML 1.0 Transitional) and I found a problem in my links. Some URLs had the & symbol, since they linked to dynamic webpages which need parameters. The trivial solution is to replace...
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