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Estimating Development Work

9 May, 2016 in Blog tagged agile / coding / development / estimate / estimations / programming / waterfall by pmhsilva

I’ve promised my son a long time ago that I would teach him how to program and recently I just set myself to put the time aside to actually do it. I started by teaching him basic programming concepts, related to algorithms, by using some educational games I found on […]

My son's first video game!

13 Sep, 2014 in Blog tagged First Game / Ivo / Kodu / Learn to Program by pmhsilva

Hi all, I’ve recently started playing World of Warcraft again and, after some time playing, I decided to go back to making movies about my raiding experience, which is something I enjoy doing. My first movie in Mists of Pandaria expansion is Norushen 10 man on heroic difficulty, I hope […]

Back to WoW and making movies

17 Feb, 2014 in Blog by pmhsilva

Can World of Warcraft work as a learning experience?

6 Sep, 2013 in Blog tagged wow irl gamer real life by pmhsilva

Yesterday I went to a Workshop promoted by my current employer with the subject of Greenline. This workshop was intended to introduce Greenline as a new way to manage conversations and increase one’s communication and interpersonal skills. According to the promoters of this Workshop, Greenline is “a scientifically-based methodology to […]

Greenline – a different approach to conversations

9 Aug, 2013 in Blog by pmhsilva

OXO playing — I’ve been reading a bit about the history of video games and found this very interesting debate over which was the first video game ever. Most people tend to agree that Spacewar! is the one, probably because it was the first one being somewhat “distributed” or played by several people […]

The very first video game ever?

30 Apr, 2013 in Blog tagged crosses / first / game / history / noughts / noughts and crosses / oxo / video / video game by pmhsilva

Hi all. Today I had to find a way to send emails with embedded images in it, for branding purposes. At first glance, it might seem an easy task to accomplish but it took me some time to actually realize how I could pull this through. To be able to […]

Sending emails with embedded images in .NET

5 Apr, 2013 in Blog tagged .net / AlternateView / ASP.NET / ASP.NET MVC / ASP.NET MVC 4 / C# / ContentType / email / embed / embedded / html / image / LinkedResource / MailMessage / MVC / MVC 4 by pmhsilva

This past week, I had to implement some functionality for my current project and part of it involved collecting a date from the user. At first glance my mind was set: “Easy! Put a Date Picker in that page and you’re sorted!”. But… Nope… We couldn’t… Why? No idea. Looks […]

Non-Standard way of collecting dates with jQuery

15 Feb, 2013 in Blog tagged code / html / input / javascript / jquery by pmhsilva

I’ve been quite busy the last few weeks since I started a new role but they have been very interesting since I am working on a project that allows me to get in touch with a few cutting-edge technologies that I had no professional experience with, namely .NET Framework 4.5, […]

Validate Irish PPS Number with JavaScript and jQuery

12 Feb, 2013 in Blog by pmhsilva

Well, yes, unfortunately, it’s true. Chaosity project is dead… At least with the current format and project members. I won’t be a part of that project anymore, for reasons already explained to the team. And since the Game Design was mine, the game as project as it is designed will […]

Chaosity is dead…

4 Feb, 2013 in Blog by pmhsilva

Deep considerations on self considerative thoughts about different ways of thinking!