Posts filed under 'Ajax'
Well, SHiFT isn’t happening this year… and yeah, believe me no one’s more sad about it than myself, well may two other crazy guys! But we couldn’t stand still so we’re helping SAPO in an astonishing event:
and trust me, we’re all aiming high, as high as we’re allowed to get all the Portuguese developers an amazing event, party and mash-ups contest!
The event is obviously inspired in the Yahoo Hackday which totally contagious us back in May in London when some of us managed to attend it. Since not all Portuguese can afford traveling as far, SAPO decided to recreate it!
We’re trying to include everyone that wishes to go, but since the seats are limited, I urge everyone who praises for his/her geekiness without shame to register at:
Time as come for all of you geeks in the closet to come out, so I really hope we can all meet up in November in Lisbon!! 
September 21st, 2007
It’s not just visually impressive, if Scrybe turns out to be everything the video promises, I think we’ll have a new calendar/organizer winner, and all from the confront of our web browser, offline and online!
Check out the impressive features presented on the video. The content copy from other applications like Excel into the calendar and the other way arround seems to me extremelly well developed, dont you think? Well just check the video out… and of course register for a beta account! I did!
My favority feature is the paper sync, but you really have to see the video!
October 23rd, 2006
Some days ago in a meeting people talked about the lack of a good webservice that allowed everybody to share their calendars, today I just tried the 30Boxes approach, first impressions are great, specially the part where it got this blog rss feed and my flickr and Sapo photos, and integrated them into my calendar, nicely done, indeed. They seem to be working a lot with sharing and importing/exporting stuff, so give them some time and your support!
I personally liked a lot their simplified introduction method: you just type phrases and the system pretty much guesses the rest!
February 10th, 2006
Bricolage, the perl open-source content management system we use at SAPO for boosting up some of our sites (like it’sHomepage, the help/support site, two major national newspapers:DN and JN, etc.) have reached an important stage with a new version just released today! As you can attest by reading the offical announcement, there were a lot of improvements and house cleaning, To me, as bricolage system administrator and developer they are a few, very important ones, I would like to summarize here…
- A revamped user interface: the old interface had major usability problems, so it’s in my opinion one of the most important developments. The new user interface, is XHTML compliant and now fully supports CSS styling, it now uses much more screen area than the older interface base on tables. The new interface is also powered by javascript, allowing some functions to be made using Ajax technology and allowing for instance the edition of documents without reloads.
- Bricolage, now supports PHP templating, thanks to the PHP::Interpreter, that allows you to use the PHP5 interpreter from within the Perl interpreter, giving developers easy access between them. This feature was made possible thanks to the support given by SAPO on this development as an open-source sponsor.
- LDAP Authentication is now support, but most important is that to allow LDAP, Bricolage now supports a pluggable authentication allowing it’s developers to built and use they’re preferred authentication methods.
Seems also, an unfortunately for me (heheh) that there was also room left for some normalization, so some of the names changed, but I actually think might pay the effort of converting our templates and scripts, since the old namespace used had lots of tricky things and could became quite confusing at some point.
Well for all the effort, congrats David of this successful release! 
January 24th, 2006
Lately I’ve became quite a fan of del.icio.us, just a little more since António showed me a prototype of an Ajax Interface alternative to the one del.icio.us provides by default, it’s called Del.icio.us Director, and besides being a super cool usage of Ajax technology it does raises the user experience, even using it becames as simple as selecting a bookmark!
Note: For those of you who (still) don’t know del.icio.us, keep reading for a brief, and personal explanation about it..
Del.icio.us is a social bookmarking service. Social as in: allowing you to share your bookmarks organized by tags. It also allows you to search other users bookmarks.
The results can be quite excellent, simply put when we search in Google for a specific term(word, tag, etc..), one normally gets a (huge) list with links to pages that might (or might not) contain such term, and although Google results can be quite accurate, when you make the same search on del.icio.us, you end up getting links to pages, this links represent bookmarks from other users, which they “marked” as having something to do with your query, typically with a particular term, or tag.
The returning results tend to be (in my humble opinion) more valuable than a simple search on most search engines. I believe it as to do with the human factor that you get from del.icio.us: someone (as in human) actually related a page with a tag or multiple tags, giving me some extra value for this link, since this relation might not come from the simple analysis of this page content, or referring links.
Give it a try!
January 19th, 2006
