Nuno Silva

Intellisense with JQuery

It is known that Microsoft has adopted JQuery has it’s “official” javascript Framework.

Now it is possible to have, in Visual Studio 2008, intellisense using this javascript framework.

In this post made by Scott Guthrie he shows how to install this support in javascript.

Although i don’t use JQuery (by some reason i prefer Mootools) it is a very good feature to add to visual studio. I know what it costs me to program using Mootools docs page has a support. Having intellisense would become things so much easy!

Frankfurt

In the last 3 days i made a business trip to Frankfurt to attend to a conference, the browser games forum 2008.

Unfortunately Portugal is such a small market that we need to go to Germany to get some real information about the area i work in, browser games.

It was a great way to do some networking with all the big players, like Big Point (the primary sponsor), Travian Games and a lot of other companies not just in the game area, but in specialized game marketing, browser game publishing and licensing.

it was a great opportunity to know what the big players are doing, how they work and what do we have available in our area to make a browser game successful.

Next year i hope to attend it, this time making a presentation (yes it’s difficult but not impossible).

Real Programmers Don’t Write Documentation

Priceless!!!!

source: Geek Hero Comic

75% of the World Spam eliminated

Spam is one of the biggest problems we face on the web. Our email is always full of it (i receive about 50 spam emails each day. I’m glad that google catches them all) as out blogs are.

According to Gizmodo, a surgical strike to an ISP, called McColo, erased instantaneously 75% of the world Spam. This is really incredible.

Of course in a week or so that spammers will find another way to start spam all over again. Nevertheless this successful strike is a very good news.

Wordle - Tags with style

I was reading some blogs when i found a reference to Wordle in Vitor’s Blog.

Wordle gives a new dimension to the Tags we commonly use. The tag clouds we usually see are just a bunch of words with different sizes. Wordle tries to give them some style.

So, like Vitor did, i decided to generate the wordle of this blog. And here it is, my Wordle:

It really gives a new aesthetic dimension to tags. It’s art made with words, our words.

Warcraft Retrospective - Part 2

Game Trailers has just released the second part of documentary called Warcraft Retrospective. This second part, called “A Call to Arms”.

In this documentary, they describe Warcraft 3 and it’s expansion, the Frozen throne. they also give a little introduction about the subject of part 3: World of Warcraft (as expected).

It’s amazing to see how all the lore was built. For me that only played half of Warcraft 3 and played World of Warcraft for about 6 months, it’s incredible to see how they transported all the lore of Warcraft 3 and built the amazing universe of World of Warcraft.

(Video below)