Bruno Silva

O marketing nas grandes superfícies…

Bruno Silva » Bruno Silva - Technology Blog — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:14:44 GMT

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) ...(read more)

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

Bruno Silva » Bruno Silva - Technology Blog — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:03:11 GMT

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...(read more)

How Addicted to Blogging Are You?

Bruno Silva » Bruno Silva - Technology Blog — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:38:57 GMT

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

More about Azure Platform Services

Bruno Silva » Bruno Silva - Technology Blog — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:27:46 GMT

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...(read more)

First toughts about Windows Azure

Bruno Silva » Bruno Silva - Technology Blog — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:33:30 GMT

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...(read more)

Microformats and Me

Bruno Silva » Bruno Silva - Technology Blog — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:10:51 GMT

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...(read more)

C# Yellow Book by Rob Miles

Bruno Silva » Bruno Silva - Technology Blog — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:59:37 GMT

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

Bruno Silva » Bruno Silva - Technology Blog — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:35:42 GMT

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...(read more)

Print What You Like

Bruno Silva » Bruno Silva - Technology Blog — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 07:43:28 GMT

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...(read more)

User Experience Week

Bruno Silva » Bruno Silva - Technology Blog — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:23:09 GMT

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...(read more)

Using Neural Networks for Classification

Bruno Silva » Bruno Silva - Technology Blog — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:18:21 GMT

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...(read more)

Gmail - Labs Plugin for Drunk People?!

Bruno Silva » Bruno Silva - Technology Blog — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:19:13 GMT

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...(read more)

Sapo Code Bits está aí!

Bruno Silva » Bruno Silva - Technology Blog — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:31:17 GMT

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...(read more)

GPS Cycle and Google Earth - Keep track of your steps

Bruno Silva » Bruno Silva - Technology Blog — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:10:13 GMT

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...(read more)

Citizen Card based authentication @ IST

Bruno Silva » Bruno Silva - Technology Blog — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:52:40 GMT

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)