I am using it for a while now and it helped me in the common tasks and made them more MVVM friendly like binding the ApplicationBar using the ApplicationBarBehavior that comes in Cimbalino.

You can read more about it here in Pedro’s blog(Portuguese), check the code on GitHub , or get it via a Nuget package.

+1 for Pedro for sharing his tools and knowledge and helping the windows phone developers community.

Depois de 3 anos a trabalhar no Hospital de São João, é altura de mudar e aceitar novos desafios. Por isso, dia 3 de Novembro será o meu ultimo dia de trabalho no serviço de Sistemas de Informação do HSJ.

A partir de 7 de Novembro tenho o prazer de me juntar á equipa da DevScope. A DevScope é uma software house bem conhecida a nivel nacional , trabalhando com as ultimas tecnologias Microsoft ajudam parceiros a adoptar e integrar essas tecnologias nas suas plataformas e processos de negócio. Desde que me reuni com a DevScope que desde logo senti que estava no sitio certo, uma empresa ambiciosa, cheia de pessoas talentosas e que gosta de correr alguns riscos apostando na inovação como imagem de marca.

Não foi fácil fazer esta decisão , Portugal atravessa uma a grave crise económica e muitos são aqueles que têm dificuldade em arranjar e manter os seus empregos. Mas, eu decidi arriscar, mesmo contra a corrente fui procurar um novo desafio, algo que me fizesse acordar de manha e ter vontade de ir trabalhar. Sim!  A questão é essa, eu adoro o que faço… e desde algum tempo que sentia que não estava muito feliz quando acordava de manhã… estranhamente só me apetecia ficar na caminha. Precisava de mais, quero continuar a aprender.. ouvir novas ideias, escutar outros pontos de vista…  evoluir! Não queria ficar estagnado e ver o mundo passar-me ao lado.

Para trás ficam 4 anos da minha vida , uma etapa importante, partilhada de perto pela minha equipa no HSJ, Afonso, Bruno, Miguel e Rui Alvar. Chegamos ao HSJ com a missão de elaborar o PCE (processo clínico electrónico), um trabalho nada fácil se olharmos a dimensão deste hospital. A verdade é que com alguns percalços pelo caminho, (a maioria “coisas políticas)”, hoje pelo JONE já passaram cerca de 100 000 doentes e mais de 1000 utilizadores no âmbito da Urgência pediátrica, o software corre 24*7 desde 19 de Maio de 2010 sem problemas de maior.
Durante este tempo aprendi muito com as pessoas que me rodearam, desde factores técnicos relacionados com a programação em WPF e .NET, até filosofias e pontos de vista no mundo técnologico.. até me tornei um Apple fan boy.
Também a a nivel pessoal foram dos melhores anos da minha vida, tornei me um pai babado da Carolina, e estes colegas acompanharam todo esse processo e sempre me ajudaram imenso.

Por isso a eles, Afonso Pedrosa, Rui Alvar, Miguel Duarte e Bruno Silva, um muito obrigado sincero por tudo, e desejos de um grande sucesso profissional e pessoal, sabem que poderão sempre contar comigo.

Agora é esperar pela próxima fase, vou continuar a melhorar e a evoluir. Procurando sempre sentir-me o mais feliz possivel fazendo o que eu gosto que é programar e trabalhar com tecnologia.

EN:

After three years working at the Hospital São João, it’s time to change and accept new challenges. Therefore, the 3rd of November will be my last day working in the Service of Information Systems at HSJ.

From November 7 I am pleased to join the DevScope team. DevScope is a well known software house in Portugal, working with the latest Microsoft technologies they help partners to adopt and integrate these new technologies into their platforms and business processes. Since I met with DevScope that I soon felt that i was in the right place, an ambitious company, full of talented people who likes to take some risks on emerging technologies.

It wasn’t easy making this decision, Portugal is undergoing a severe economic crisis and many are those who have difficulty finding and keeping their jobs. But, I decided to risk, even against the tide i went looking for a new challenge, something that made me wake up in the morning and be willing to go to work. Yes! The question is this, I love what I do … and since some time I felt that I was not very happy when I woke up in the morning … strangely I just want to stay in my bed. I needed more, I want to continue to learn .. listen to new ideas, listen to other points of view … Evolve! I did not want to stagnate and watch the world pass by me.

Gone are four years of my life, an important step, closely shared by my team in HSJ, Afonso, Bruno, Miguel and Rui Alvar. We arrived at the HSJ with a mission to prepare the EPR (electronic patient record), a work not easy if you look at the size of this hospital. The truth is that with some missteps along the way (mostly “political things),” JONE has processed till today about 100,000 patients and more than 1000 users in the pediatric emergency, the software runs 7 * 24 since May 19 2010 without major problems.
During this time I learned a lot from the people who surrounded me, from technical factors related to programming in WPF and. NET, to philosophies and views in the tech world ..  I even became an Apple fan boy.
It also was at a personal level, the best years of my life. I became a father from Carolina, and colleagues supported my in this whole process and always helped me a lot.

So to them, Afonso Pedrosa, Rui Alvar, Bruno Silva and Miguel Duarte  a sincere thank you for everything, and wishes for a great professional and personal success, they know they can always count on me.

The time now is to wait for the next phase, I will continue to improve and evolve. Always trying to feel as happy as possible doing what I like, programming and working with technology.

Steve Jobs was an icon, one of a kind, a genius and also a person that inspired me personally. He didn’t went to university but that didn’t stop him to help manufacturing the first personal computer with Woz in is parent’s garage and creating  the current most valuable company in the stock market, Apple. It didn’t stop him of creating Pixar and making the first full computer animated film, Toy Story. Didn’t stop him of making apple rebirth and start a decade of launching game change products, like the iPod, iTunes, iPhone and iPad… And the story continues with iCloud and iOS…

Also his charisma was something of another world. How do you go and say to a room full of people that a product now costs 2x as much and people still clap and camp in front of stores to buy that over expensive products?! … This was something only Jobs could do.. and it was a work of lots of years thinking different.

He wasn’t perfect, he had his problems and lots of rumors say that it was hard to deal with him at work, but that’s how genius are.. that’s what made Steve Jobs, Steve Jobs. The attention to detail, pushing people around until the job was perfect, he wasnt happy with a good job, it had to be perfect. Like the story of the Google icon in the maps app.

I’m Apple fan boy for a while now.. but my admiration for Steve was more than that, i think it’s because the multiple talks i saw online from him, and of course for the products and keynotes he brought to us. One great and inspire talk was it’s speech at Stanford, please watch it and remember Steve in it’s best, inspiring people.

Steve Jobs and he’s magical words will always be remembered..

“One more thing”

O United Skim Tour teve a sua primeira competição na Europa durante a semana de 18 a 12 Setembro em França. Este vídeo é a 1ªparte da cobertura pelo SkimPortugal desta semana de muito bom skimming e momentos divertidos com toda a comunidade de skimboard.

Este projecto foi editado em Final Cut Pro 7 , depois de ter tentado o novo FCP X e ter descoberto que este não permitia importar projectos antigos.
As filmagens foram capturas com uma Canon HV30.

Richard captured the Metro essence and made it clean and focus just on the content. The idea started with my name and my envolvement with the windows platform. 

Please take the time to see and appreciate the full work here.

Big thanks to Richard , he has been a key partner in the design process of some ruimarinho.net projects, he is trully commited to create perfect pixels design just like i love to code them on the screen.. the perfect match.

As filmagens foram capturadass com uma Canon HV30 , em full hd, a edição foi feita em Final Cut Pro num Mac Book Pro 2.4ghz, 4g Ram e MacOS snow leopard.
Sem dúvida que para este tipo de trabalhos prefiro mesmo o MacOS ao Windows 7.

Tive que recorrer a algumas pesquisas e dicas para tentar fazer um bom trabalho numa área que não tenho muita prática. Mas acho que o trabalho final está muito bom, especialmente na versão original a sair em formato fisico num futuro próximo.

Visitem a página no facebook para ver em melhor qualidade e coloquem um LIKE

Thank you Richard.

Outra parte intressante foi a integração do email com o Google Apps, tira um grande peso na altura de configurar emails e dominios, eu pelo menos acho bastante intuitivo, alem de ofercer 7 GB de email imap, toda a configuração é super simples. Um promenor foi ter adicionado um novo SMTP manager para integrar com servidor do GMAIL pois não conseguia fazer override ao default to php em windows

A integração com o facebook ficou apenas pela fan box, e por adicionar metada para Open graph, mas podia ter ido mais além como a própria inscrição no vento ser feita usando o Facebook Connect, mas decidi não complicar.
A inscrição é o famoso Contact Form 7 com algum custom code para esconder e mostrar elementos mediante as opções escolhidas.

Também foi necessário fazer a tradução de tudo para inglês e ai deu um jeitão usar o qTranslate.

Todo o trabalho de configuração, alojamento, registos e analytics foi feito também por mim.

Em suma foi umtrabalho intressante e que me deu gozo, primeiro porque é para ajudar o desenvolvimento do desporto que pratico, segundo porque posso mostrar o meu trabalho e terceiro porque eu adoro o que faço.

ps: se precisas de um site simples e estiloso como este, envia um mail para obter um orçamento

One guy called Jose Fajardo, a awesome and inspiring  developer from AU started to play around with the html5 to build a dashboard similiar to the one of Windows 8, you can see his work here, http://discover.cloudapp.net/ he got inspired by the Tron HTML5 app, and started it own little tool helper for creating this immersible experiences.

I love his work, and started playing with his controls of the windows 8 html5 dashboard http://ruimarinho.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/9DPGV.mp4 , but the thing thought , it was impossible to make it work on the iPad, even with all the code written in html5, the problem was  that in the ipad we are expecting touch events and not mouse up, our mouse down events.. so i added some lines of code to make it work more or less well in the iPad and iPhone.

I added this code inspried in the already written mouse code

        //ruiespinho stuff
        //hook touch events
        var mCanvas = document.getElementById("Canvas");
        mCanvas.addEventListener('touchstart',this.OnTouchDown);
        mCanvas.addEventListener('touchmove', this.OnTouchMove);
        mCanvas.addEventListener('touchend', this.OnTouchEnd);
        mCanvas.addEventListener('touchleave', this.OnTouchEnd);

 //touch functions

this.OnTouchDown = function (touchEvent) {
        mLastMouseX = touchEvent.targetTouches[0].clientX;
        mCurrentInertiaX = 0;
        mCurrentVelocityX = 0;
        mLastMotionUpdate = 0; //new Date().getTime();

        mKeyboardVelocityX = 0; // touch down resets any keyboard motion

        mMousePointer.x = touchEvent.targetTouches[0].pageX;
        mMousePointer.y = touchEvent.targetTouches[0].pageY;

        mMousePointerDown.x = touchEvent.targetTouches[0].pageX;
        mMousePointerDown.y = touchEvent.targetTouches[0].pageY;

        mLastX = mViewportTargetX;

        var mouseDownHandled = false;

        if (Experience.Instance.RinzlerCalloutActive || Experience.Instance.SamCalloutActive) {
            mouseDownHandled = true;
        }

        touchEvent.preventDefault();

        /* not doing mouse handling in canvas
        // update all of the visible pages
        for( var i = 0; i < pages.length; i ++ )
        {
        // degrade in case of unhandled errors by dropping broken pages
        if( pages[i].Broken )
        continue;

        var localMousePointer = { "x": mMousePointer.x, "y": mMousePointer.y };

        // the mouse pointer will be in each page's local space regardless of scrolling
        var localOffsetX = pages[i].X - mViewportX;
        localMousePointer.x -= localOffsetX;
        localMousePointer.x = Math.round(localMousePointer.x);

        try
        {
        // handle contact down event
        var handled = pages[i].HandleContactDown(localMousePointer);
        mouseDownHandled |= handled;
        }
        catch( err )
        {	// if a page commits an error, remove it from circulation
        pages[i].Broken = true;
        Dbg.Print("Page " + pages[i].Label + " unhandled error in HandleContactDown(): " + err);
        }
        }
        */

        // if mouse wasnt handled by any of the pages, use it for scrolling
        if (!mouseDownHandled) {
            mPanningActive = true;
            mMouseDragOpacityTarget = 1;
        }
    }

    this.OnTouchMove = function (touchEvent) {
        if (mPanningActive) {
            // the granularity of JS timers in IE9 is around 16msec
            // which means if we are getting 60+ mouse-move updates per second
            // once in a while we will get a near-zero timespan
            // which throws any velocity/inertia computation out the window
            var timeNow = new Date().getTime();
            //var deltaTime = timeNow - mLastMotionUpdate;

            mMouseDragOpacityTarget = 1;

            // apply camera panning
            var newX = touchEvent.targetTouches[0].clientX;
            var deltaX = newX - mLastMouseX;

            mLastMouseX = newX;
            mLastMotionUpdate = timeNow;

            mMousePointer.x = touchEvent.targetTouches[0].pageX;
            mMousePointer.y = touchEvent.targetTouches[0].pageY;

            mViewportTargetX -= deltaX;
        }

        mMousePointerReal.x = touchEvent.targetTouches[0].pageX;
        mMousePointerReal.y = touchEvent.targetTouches[0].pageY;
    }

    this.OnTouchEnd = function (touchEvent) {

        if (mPanningActive) {
            mPanningActive = false;
            mCurrentInertiaX = Math.abs(mCurrentVelocityX);
            mInertiaMaxTime = 300 + mCurrentInertiaX * 500;
            mbProcessInertia = true;

            // decrease velocity; duration of last mousemove to this mouseup event
            // indicates a hold gesture
            var timeNow = new Date().getTime();
            var deltaTime = timeNow - mLastMotionUpdate;
            deltaTime = Math.max(10, deltaTime); // low-timer granularity compensation
            mLastMotionUpdate = 0;

            // 100msec is a full hold gesture that complete zeroes out the velocity to be used as inertia
            mCurrentVelocityX *= 1 - Math.min(1, Math.max(0, deltaTime / 100));
        }

        mLastX = 0;
        mMouseDragOpacityTarget = 0;

        $.doTimeout("clearmousedown", 50, function () {
            mMousePointerDown.x = 0;
            mMousePointerDown.y = 0;
        });

    }

Getting right to the subject adding google +1 for websites to yoru own blog is easy just add this lines of code