Bruno Silva

What I almost can’t wait for from E3

Bruno Silva » Bruno Silva - Technology Blog — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 10:49:10 GMT

Yesterday I assisted to the 3 E3 main press conferences by Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony. Lately I haven’t been such an active video game player as I used to be some months ago, but now I’m feeling that during this year and the next one I’ll...(read more)

User Styles in Internet Explorer

Bruno Silva » Bruno Silva - Technology Blog — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:50:46 GMT

As a Firefox user, one of the extensions that I can’t live without is Userstyles . They allow me to remove tons of ads and format some webpages that I use in my daily life in the way I want. A few months ago I started using IE8 as my main browser...(read more)

I just have April Fool’s Day…

Bruno Silva » Bruno Silva - Technology Blog — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:01:10 GMT

… because while reading my RSS feed subscriptions, there are a lot of news that are fake (clearly), and someones that I can’t tell if they are....(read more)

2º Seminário de Tecnologias Móveis IT PRO & DEV

Bruno Silva » Bruno Silva - Technology Blog — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:30:14 GMT

A segunda edição do evento da comunidade PocketPT.net para os Profissionais de tecnologias móveis e relacionadas, dá continuidade ao sucesso obtido pela primeira edição. Este ano, de modo a oferecer um conjunto de conteúdos mais alargado, as duas tracks...(read more)

ASP.NET Output Cache - Cleaning all at once

Bruno Silva » Bruno Silva - Technology Blog — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:52:20 GMT

I’ve been using a feature of ASP.NET called Output Cache. It allows you to have server-side cache for your ASP.NET webpages. You can define several profiles and cache expiration rules. You can read more about it in a simple and short article at...(read more)

List Random Order in .NET using Linq

Bruno Silva » Bruno Silva - Technology Blog — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:03:57 GMT

While refactoring some C# code I came across some lines that seemed a bit awkward. I was trying to sort a list or an array randomly. That code was written before Linq came into the .Net Framework, so now I was able to figure out a new approach. Since...(read more)

List Random Order in .NET using Linq

Bruno Silva » Bruno Silva - Technology Blog — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:03:57 GMT

Using web.config for custom configuration settings

Bruno Silva » Bruno Silva - Technology Blog — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:13:54 GMT

If you are an ASP.NET developer you must be familiar with web.config . Something that maybe you haven’t tried yet is to create custom configuration sections to store you application specific settings. Bellow you can see a web.config file that uses...(read more)

Linq - Adding element to collection, Union vs Concat

Bruno Silva » Bruno Silva - Technology Blog — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 11:45:50 GMT

Some time ago while developing a project I came across a problem related to Linq to Objects. I wanted do join a single object with a collection in order to transverse them with a foreach statement (the item was not allways present and I wanted to treat...(read more)

Novo portal Sapo Kids

Bruno Silva » Bruno Silva - Technology Blog — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:12:23 GMT

Foi lançado hoje um novo portal português destinado aos mais novos. É o Sapo Kids! Além de diversos conteúdos lúdicos e didácticos reunidos a partir dos diversos serviços do mundo Sapo, conta com parcerias como a Porto Editora ou até mesmo o MIT. Realço...(read more)

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)