“É com orgulho que vos anuncio que estou a preparar com a minha equipa mais uma edição do nosso evento principal de consumo: a quarta edição do Seminário de Tecnologias Móveis Windows Mobile do PocketPT, sob o tema “Como escolher o equipamento certo para mim…”.
O evento terá lugar no dia 21 de Junho, sendo que decorrerá nos moldes dos nossos eventos anteriores que têm provado ser um enorme sucesso entre os participantes.
Contamos como tem vindo a ser hábito com o apoio da Microsoft Portugal, sendo que iremos ter uma agenda muito rica e cheia de informação para o utilizador final deste tipo de tecnologia.”
Nuno Luz
Estive presente no 1º Seminário de Tecnologias Móveis TI PRO e valeu imenso a pena. Estarei presente em mais este evento com as espectativas em alta. 
Inscrevam-se antes que esgote.
Now think twice before forwarding any “funny e-mails” to me. 
Yesterday Popfly Game Creator was released (at least the alpha version )
It allows you to write a Silverlight-based games, without actually writing any code. Once again, just as I think about the original Popfly, it is hard for non-developers to use this tool, but it can be great to people who lack a lot of advanced knowledge about development but are related to Computer Science (such as students or hobbyists).
One problem about the interface is that it is meant to be used in large resolution monitors. All the buttons are big, and even with a 1280×800 resolution I had some difficulties using the Game Creator.
Here’s a screenshot of the game editor. I like the childish look&feel.
Dan Fernandez has written a nice introduction to this tool on his blog. Take a look at it.
Here’s an example of a template which ships with this tool. It is called Big Race.
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Today, while reading an entry on Alcides’ blog I found out about Slide Share. It allows you to upload your slide show presentations and then get them embed in your website or blog in a flash movie.
I tried it out and it is pretty nice and useful, nevertheless there are at least 2 points which need some improvement. It does not support the pptx file extension yet, and when it comes to presentations that use animations it doesn’t work that well. This service seems that just takes a picture of each slide and turn that set of pictures into a movie with previous/next buttons. So, if you intend to use this service to share your slides, don’t forget to cut off the animations, or you won’t be pleased with the result.
This service usage is pretty similar to YouTube. You upload your file and wait until the processing is done on the servers. Than you can share the presentation in social networks and other websites. It allows you to attach the original presentation file for download, if you want so.
Here’s an example.
Dia da Inovação - 20 de Maio
“O Dia da Inovação é um evento subordinado ao tema de Inovação e Empreendedorismo na área das novas tecnologias. Tem por principais objectivos estimular o empreendedorismo e a inovação, envolver, de forma articulada, estudantes empreendedores, investigadores, empresas e investidores, premiar e divulgar ideias inovadoras e debater ao mais alto nível a problemática da Inovação e Desenvolvimento da Economia Local. (…)”
Mais informação no Blog do Bruno Tavares
XNA Pizza Night - 24 de Junho
“Fizeste um jogo em XNA jogável na Xbox 360 ? Então, aparece no XNA Pizza Night e deixa os outros testar o teu jogo, jogando-o. As pizzas e as coca-colas serão oferecidas pela MSFT.No final daremos XBoxs aos jogos mais votados!(…)”
Mais informação no Blog do Bruno Tavares
Two or three days ago I read in some blog about Live Mesh. What is it?
“Live Mesh puts you at the center of your digital world, seamlessly connecting you to the people, devices, programs, and information you care about — available wherever you happen to be.”
You get a place on the web where you can store your data, and access and synchronize from within any computer you use. In this Tech Preview only Windows XP/Vista are supported, but the big picture includes Mac and mobile devices. You can share data with other people, and keep track of the news about your data (changes, additions, deletions, comments added, etc).
Take a look at this video that shows the main features of this new project.
Here is another video tour, this one’s target audience is the developers community. It seems that as usual in Windows Live Services, this new project will be very “developer friendly”.
I look forward to have a chance to try it. Meanwhile I’ll keep tuned in the website.
