Bruno Silva

O marketing nas grandes superfícies…

2008-12-19T09:14:44Z

No outro dia fui ao Media Markt de Sintra para comprar um pack de 4 pilhas recarregáveis. Encontrei um pack da Duracell a 14 euros (ou 13.90 e tal, whatever). Ao lado estavam um pack de 2 pilhas a 6 euros. Portanto, 6 euros x 2 packs (2 pilhas cada) = 12 euros 14 euros * 1 pack * (4 pilhas) = 14 euro O senso comum não nos diz que os packs de maior número de unidades deve sair mais barato? Ou pelo menos ter o mesmo preço? O meu diz que sim. Ou é um engano de marcação de preço, ou stocks distintos...(read more)

New Windows Live Hotmail - What was wrong about the icons?…

2008-11-05T17:03:11Z

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 it simple, but not too simple....(read more)

How Addicted to Blogging Are You?

2008-11-04T17:38:57Z

77% How Addicted to Blogging Are You?...(read more)

More about Azure Platform Services

2008-10-29T15:27:46Z

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 Control Service relies on standard protocols such as WS-Trust and WS-Federation. This makes the service accessible from any kind of application on any platform. Claims-based identity is on its way to becoming the standard approach for distributed...(read more)

First toughts about Windows Azure

2008-10-28T12:33:30Z

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 of all I’ll talk about the Windows Azure, which is a part of the Azure Services Platform. It allows you to run applications and store data on the cloud (replace cloud by “a bunch o Microsoft data centers”). You can reduce the Total...(read more)

Microformats and Me

2008-10-27T14:10:51Z

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, microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards. Which Microformats did I implement in this blog after this workshop? hAtom hAtom is a microformat for identifying semantic information in weblog...(read more)

C# Yellow Book by Rob Miles

2008-10-20T08:59:37Z

Rob Miles (a MVP from UK) has made available in his website a C# book for beginners that is used in this university in the First Year programming course. Download the PDF and happy reading....(read more)

TODAY, Mobile Application - Make art from your communications log

2008-10-17T17:35:42Z

In the last day of Shift’08 Conference I attended to a session about a project of investigation that I really liked. The speakers (authors of the project) weren’t good speakers and had difficulties to “sell the product”, but the project itself and their idea really pleased me. What is it? TODAY is a piece of generative design for mobile phones. It’s an application that visualizes personal mobile communication. It sits on the periphery of the machine, monitoring our connectivity...(read more)

Print What You Like

2008-10-17T07:43:28Z

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 sheets, other times copy-paste to Word is really effective. But if the web page is messy, this is a great tool. It is worth giving it a try! Go to PrintWhatYouLike.com and start printing in a ecologic and cheaper way....(read more)

User Experience Week

2008-10-16T10:23:09Z

A área me usabilidade é-me bastante querida deste que tive a cadeira de Interfaces Pessoa-Máquina. Sempre que tenho oportunidade de aprendar mais sobre este assunto que tantas vezes é colocado de parte, tento aproveitar ao máximo. Um destes casos é a User Experience Week que engloba uma apresentação pública e 2 workshops. Para os workshops não tenho budget mas na apresentação devo estar presente! User Experience Strategy Apresentação, 2 Horas 03 de Novembro de 2008 Auditório Microsoft Oeiras, Portugal...(read more)

Using Neural Networks for Classification

2008-10-15T19:18:21Z

During the last weeks I’ve been doing some research related to my Master thesis. One of the topics I’m studying is Unsupervised Machine Learning . The main goal is to have a piece of software that given a training set (a set of examples representative of the whole population) allow the software to accept input that it has never seen before and behave as expected. Imagine for instance a concept called Color Classifier. We usually have several named colors such as red, green, blue, yellow...(read more)

Gmail - Labs Plugin for Drunk People?!

2008-10-07T10:19:13Z

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 right state of mind? As you can read above and by the challenges bellow it really looks like a test to find out if you are drunk or under the influence of drugs. lol This Plugin is kind of useless, but you can find some more with nice features. Learn...(read more)

Sapo Code Bits está aí!

2008-10-06T13:31:17Z

O Sapo Code Bits aproxima-se! Este evento conta com concursos, workshops e bastante animação e troca de ideias. O ano passado não estive presente, mas estou a fazer os possíveis para ir este ano! Para tal registem-se no site apresentando a vossa candidatura. Mais informações através do site codebits.sapo.pt e para notificações de última hora sigam http://twitter.com/codebits...(read more)

GPS Cycle and Google Earth - Keep track of your steps

2008-09-30T15:10:13Z

Probably I haven’t mentioned before, but after my Qtek S200 crashed a few months ago, I’ve bought an HTC Diamond. At first it was a little slow and battery consuming, but 3 days after I bought it, HTC released a new ROM for TMN customers which solved those issues. Great timing I had. Yesterday I tried a new version of a tool I didn’t know about. It is called GPS Cycle and it uses your built-in GPS receiver to track your position and draw a graph. But the feature that I really like...(read more)

Citizen Card based authentication @ IST

2008-09-29T15:52:40Z

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....(read more)