Ericsson Application Awards 2011

Que tal participar de um concurso mobile e ainda ter a chance de mostrar seu aplicativo para o mundo?
É isso que o Ericsson Application Awards 2011 da Sony Ericsson propõe. Junte entre 2 e 4 amigos, seus notebooks/pcs e suas IDE's e mãos à obra!!!!
Não se esqueça de seguir os critérios de avaliação o melhor que puder:
— Sua app deve ser baseada em 1 ou mais API's do Ericsson Labs.
— Inspire-se no tema “Connected Things”.
— Tenha um protótipo funcional de aplicação.
— A solução deve ser inovadora. (lembre-se nem sempre inovação deve ser criar algo que ninguém nunca viu antes)
— Tente manter um potencial comercial. (acho que esse é o mais díficil pois vai limitar algumas idéias)

 Não é mais um estudante? Não tem problema, tente convencer seu chefe a formar um ou mais grupos para participar da categoria para empresas (de até 100 funcionários), quem sabe não conquista mais do que o concurso?

E antes que você fale: "Ah mas não ganho nada?" aí vai a resposta, além da baita divulgação e espaço para fechar negócios você ainda pode ganhar 15000 euros.

 
Para maiores informações acesse os links:
Site Oficial: http://www.ericssonapplicationawards.com/
Overview: http://www.ericssonapplicationawards.com/overview
Regras: http://www.ericssonapplicationawards.com/rules

Japanese 25th mario anniversary =D yeah

Because mario deserves after saving peach so many times...

Happy Birthday!!!!

Video Games | Super Mario Bros. | Japanese 25th Anniversary Trailer

XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii

New God Of War Competitor - Azura's Wrath

Capcom is one of my favorite game producer, they always surprise me with something different. But this time they hit the spot!!!
They're producing a game similar to god of war serie (PS's) but with Super Street Fighter IV (PS3/XBOX360) design, asian Gods (hell yeah!), they're using Unreal 3 Engine and the most important, it'll be released for xbox360 too.
The name of the big, awesome, fantastic game is AZURA'S WRATH......okay, maybe I'm overestimating the game, but it seems a blockbuster....see for yourself and let us hope to see this baby soon =D

Video Games | Asura's Wrath | TGS 10: Debut Trailer

XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii

Good movie - The Sorcerer's Apprentice

I watch a really good movie from Disney today, first I was in disbelief about it but after a few minutes I changed my mind.
The Sorcerer's Apprentice is much more than simply a copy of harry potter, in fact it doesn't resemble nothing harry potter movies...
Its references, for me, are more likely to be Dragon Ball Anime, Star wars (some jokes, see for yourself) and the good old medieval sorceres books (I can't remember the names, if you do please leave a comment =D).
Sum it up the effects are great and simple, the actors really get into the characters and the history is well made.
It worth your money go see it!

So I leave here with the thriller, enjoy it.

Alias to namespaces in C#

I know that probabily you already know how to give an alias to your namespaces references and I know also there is some easy content in the web that explain that.

But this is a little tip that I never thought searching and step on it by chance.

Imagine that you are using two or more control libraries, one is from .NET (Desktop or Web) and the other are from external companies or from the community.

In this case it's very common to find a Label control, for example, in more than one library. So when that happens you'll have something like this:


Imagine calling these references all the time, this is bad for readability and also for the compiler, which have to load the reference in runtime instead of doing it in compile time.

There is a very simple way of not loading this references all the time and improving the readability, that are aliases.



So that is it, I hope you all liked it.

Cheers.