August 2008
5 posts
Finally Finished Portal
I borrowed the orange box from a friend to play Episode One, Episode Two and Portal. I actually had Portal for the PC (via Steam) but never got past the first few chambers. The best thing portal had to offer, better even than the innovative gameplay, was the humor.
Now that I’ve finished Ep1&2 and Portal I’m thinking about replaying HL2. The game levels are awesome and even though...
Braid
Braid (blog) is one of the most interestingly different games I’ve played in a long while. It’s a plataform/puzzle game (mostly puzzle) with the particularity that the puzzles are solved by manipulating time.
It is available on the Xbox 360 via Xbox Live Arcade and costs 1200 MS points (15 eur) which is a lot for an arcade game but it’s worth it. The game plays...
How To Fold a T-shirt
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Tool of The Month: jhead
jhead - Exif Jpeg header manipulation tool
Things jhead can extract from an Exif jpeg file
Time and date picture was taken
Camera make and model
Integral low-res Exif thumbnail
Shutter speed
Camera F-stop number
Flash used (yes/no)
Distance camera was focused at
Focal length and calculate 35 mm equivalent focal length
Image resolution
GPS info, if stored in image
IPTC...
Barcamp Portugal 2008 and my proposed talk
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When: September, 6 & 7 Where: Coimbra, Portugal
Dep. de Engenharia Informática
da Universidade de Coimbra
I’ve proposed talking about the basics of MySQL performance & optimization. A draft topic list is available here.
I would appreciate your comments:
- Is it boring/useless or something like that?
- Should some of the topics in the draft be left out? (I’m...
