Nuno Silva

All in one Phone

I’ve to to get one of these:

Features include:
- Mobile Phone (with all that is common in our days)
- Coffe Maker
- Shaver
- Global Voice Translater
- Harmonica
- Projector

http://www.pomegranatephone.com/

God of War 3 online?

http://jobs.gamasutra.com/jobseekerx/viewjobrss.asp?cjid=17874&accountno=345

Does this mean that God of War 3 will have online gamming?

Javascript Frameworks

Here an interesting site comparing the speed of 5 of the most known JS frameworks on the market:

http://mootools.net/slickspeed/

My results in several Browsers:

XP/Firefox:
Mootools: 157 ms
JQuery: 147 ms
Prototype: 215 ms
YUI: 342 ms
Dojo: 101 ms

XP/IE7:
Mootools: 416 ms
JQuery: 302 ms
Prototype: 1598 ms
YUI: 999 ms
Dojo: 503 ms

XP/Opera:
Mootools: 68 ms
JQuery: 64 ms
Prototype: 80 ms
YUI: 250 ms
Dojo: 28 ms

XP/Chrome:
Mootools: 68 ms
JQuery: 49 ms
Prototype: 291 ms
YUI: 215 ms
Dojo: 61 ms

The winner is: Dojo!!!

Is really fast in the major browsers (IE doesn’t count.. every javascript is slow on IE.. :\).

Revenge of the Fallen - First glimpse

Here it is the first glimpse of one of the “must see movies” of 2009: Transformers: Revenge of Fallen:

http://www.viddler.com/explore/techeblog/videos/205/

Collection was modified

Many times i’m programming and i want to iterate a collection and modify it. Thsi usually happens when i want to remove a certain number of objects of a collection:

foreach( Element e in elements){
   if( ConditionIsSatisfied(e) ) {
       elements.Remove(e);
   }
}

The above method will give a collection modified exception because i’m modifying a collection while iterating it.

To resolve this problem without long lines of code, there is a simple thing i can do:

List<Element> temporayElements = new List<Element>(elements);
foreach( Element e in temporayElements){
   if( ConditionIsSatisfied(e) ) {
       elements.Remove(e);
   }
}

This way, i can iterate and check the conditions in one container and manipulate the original one without the possibility of throwing a “Collection was modified” exception.

Street Fighter IV - only a month left

Thats right. 20 February is the official release date of the fourth installement of this classic game. It is said that SF4 is going to have 25 characters. Below is a in game video with some of them. Enjoy!

(video after the break)

Cinema In 2009

This year Will be wonderful for me. Action and Sci Fi movies with a lot of special effects are my favorite and 2009 is full of them.

Here are some:

Terminator Salvation - Hope this movie marks the long awaited changed in the terminator saga (This time without Arnold in the way!).

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen - If the first was wonderful, the second i hope it will be fantastic!(Sometimes this isn’t true… Well we will be here to see…)

X-Men Origins: Wolverine - My favorite character of all the marvel universe. Can’t wait for the premiere.

Star Trek - Has a fan, i hope this movie brings a new beginning for the Star Trek saga.

Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li - This is one of “those” movies… I want to watch because i’m a huge fan of Street Fighter… But i’m afraid… Very very afraid…

Dragon Ball Evolution - This is another of “those” movies. The trailer suggests a wonderful action movie, with a lot of fights dragon ball style! But there are some unforgivable errors like Bulma’s hair for instance…

Underworld: Rise of the Lycans - Loved the first, loved the second. A great saga now with an untold story: How the Lycans and the Vampires became mortal enemies!

A Merry Christmas to you all!!!

Playstation 3 Media Server

I found the perfect Media Server to work with Playstation 3. It’s called PS3 Media Server and it’s the most simple Media Server i tested until the moment.

In only 5 minutes i managed to connect my ps3 with my computer and display a episode of Heroes (with Subtitles!!!!) in my TV.

You can download this program at http://ps3mediaserver.blogspot.com/. It’s available for Windows, Linux and Mac.

Excellent isn’t it?

Version 1 of Orion’s Belt died today

Today is a sad day because the first version of Orion’s Belt was shutted down. You can read a retrospective of version 1 in our development blog: blog.orionsbelt.eu

Meanwhile you can take a glimpse of the new version in our temporary institutional site.