Category: Web
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.”
Live Mesh website
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.
During this week I’ve been experiencing some problems with browser caching.
I’ve a dynamically generated XML file which contents change a lot (it is a photo gallery based on Slide.Show), and I want the people who see this gallery to see newly added photos immediately. Today someone asked me how to prevent the client-side caching (regarding Slide.Show too), so I did some searches and testing in order to enlight us both. 
I’ve found reference to a few lines of code which should be used in ASP.NET web pages to prevent caching.
Response.CacheControl = “no-cache”;
Response.AddHeader(”Pragma”, “no-cache”);
Response.Expires = 0;
I tried the first one alone both in IE 7 and Firefox 2 and it seamed to be enough, nevertheless, being care is never enough,so I’ll probably use the 3 lines together!
Just try to be careful and don’t feel tempted to prevent caching in every single web page in your web site, it leads to poor perfomance in both your servers and in the client side. And every one likes to see the content of a previously visited page rendered quickly, right?
Posted on 9:48am 4/18/2008 by Bruno Silva in
Culture,
Web
Está a nascer uma nova comunidade!
O objectivo desta comunidade é reunir os entusiastas na área que gostem de falar e dar opiniões sobre alguns brinquedos, media center, portáteis xptos, máquinas fotográficas, etc. Os objectivos passam também pela criação de um centro de discussão e troca de impressões bem como truques e dicas da temática que hoje em dia está presente nas nossas vidas.
Ainda se encontra em estado embrionário, mas tenho boas expectativas em relação a este projecto.
O meus parabéns ao Nuno Silva e ao Gonçalo Chaves pela iniciativa.
Today I’ve upgraded my blot to WordPress 2.5. I had a problem with this upgrade… The front page of my website showed the “Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.” message instead of my latest posts list.
After diving into the WordPress engine source code, I realised that it was trying to open my homepage as a single post (using the correspondent template). The is_home() function was returning false, and the is_single() was returning true…
I still don’t know the cause of this behavior, but I got it fixed by using my programmer hammer. 
In the index.php file, I added the following line:
$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']=’/page/1′;
This way, the engine renders the first page of posts instead of the single post page.
P.S.: I don’t like the new WordPress administration interface. 
Finally I’ve got my own Nintendo Wii console. What can I say about i? Fun, fun, fun!!! I have Wii Sports and Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3. You can take a look at my wish list at IGN.com.
I spent 500 wii points (valued in about 5 €) to get a web browser on my Wii. It is powered by Opera and it works pretty well. Nevertheless I hope that Nintendo releases a small keyboard like the X-box 360 keyboard. It is pretty hard to type using the Wiimote (and tiring too).
While testing the browser capabilities, I went to a website that I knew that had a lot of flash clips. I was glad to found out that Miniclip.com has support for Nintendo Wii! When you access this website using a Wii, you see a list of games compatible with your console. You’re are able to play them using your Wiimote. Pretty great!
I look forward to see WiiWare working! It is coming soon. My Wii Shop is already updated to support it.
Last weekend I had a great time at Madrid (Spain), sponsored by West Icon, the company which I work for. The goal of this trip was to learn more about Adobe Air in, as a follow up action of the Flex Camp seminar at ISCTE which had a great impact in the company perspective about the impact of Rich Internet Applications (RIA’s) on the web. During the last couple of weeks we’ve been starting to work with Adobe Flex and Adobe Air in a new product (still top secret ). onAIR tour event was great to get some tips about nice functionalities of Adobe Air. This was the first event of the European tour and it went pretty well.
We went to Madrid by car. A loooong trip. we arrived on Saturday, and headed to Parque Warner. It was great! I just love Superman, and because of that I just love the fountain bellow. The Superman roller coaster was pretty awesome. I really felt like flying.
The weather was great. And during this season, there isn’t a lot of people in the park. The longest wait we had was about 15 minutes, in Superman roller coaster. I can’t even imagine how crowded this place can be in Summer… We paid 25 € per person. This is the price when entering into the park after 4:00pm (it closes at 10:00pm). During this time of the year, it is plenty of time to visit the park. The place is beautiful, and makes you feel like you’re in a Warner film. You can to the Daily Planet, or visit Bat-cave! I really liked the Wild West area too. A lot of emotions and excitement can be achieved in the several attractions like the roller coasters. I even saw Batman driving his Bat-car in front of Gotham City city hall! Children were delighted to take photos with him! Jerry was in the streets too. I wonder where was Tom… He wasn’t chasing him.
In the photo bellow you can see Atocha train station. It is pretty big, and really beautiful. It is the central point in public transportation in Madrid (unfortunately you may know it only because of the terrorist attacks at March 11th…).
Right next to Atocha station, there is a great art center, called Museo Nacional Reina Sofia. We were pretty lucky, because the entry was free, and there was a temporary exhibit of Picasso paintings (The collection of the National Museum Picasso of Paris). But those that I really loved were Salvador Dali’s paintings. Madrid is a pretty nice city, but I hate Spanish food, and I prefer Barcelona rather than Madrid. Nevertheless, it is worth to visit, and I really mean it.
onAIR event was pretty nice. Since this was the first event of the European tour, the sessions weren’t recorded yet. But because Portuguese people are awesome, riaPT (Rich Internet Applications Portuguese Community) guys recorded the sessions by their own, and they are available in their blog.
You can take a loot at the agenda in the official website. I only have one complaint: the event was supposed to be in English, but there were some sessions in Spanish… Luckily it was pretty easy to understand.
During the breaks I was able to try Guitar Hero for X-Box 360. It is nice, but I wouldn’t buy it. Maybe a friend of mine will, and then I can enjoy it. I also playing Wii Sports in the Wii that was available in the Gaming area.
