Adobe AIR 1.0 and friends

Adobe AIR 1.0 was shipped today! If you visit the old link at adobe labs you get the following message:

Adobe® AIR™ shipped on February 25, 2008 and is no longer hosted on Adobe Labs. If you are not redirected in a few seconds please go to the new location at Adobe.com.

... and then you're redirected to http://www.adobe.com/products/air/

Google Gears, Microsoft Silverlight and Adobe AIR, will be the main focus of my attention for the next week. I must choose one of them to work with during my project final project!

Based on what I have learned so far, Google Gears and Adobe AIR will better candidates for this specific project!

(this blog is seriously risking to become too much "techie" for my family and some friends :) )

Back to Portugal

I am back already, and my first week was quite chaotic.
I told my parents I would arrive on Sunday 17.Feb 8PM, when I had tickets to Saturday 16.Feb. When I was already quite close to my place, I phoned my father and told him that my plane had been canceled and then I rang the door bell eheheh. It was quite a surprise.

Monday I went to Coimbra to a presentation at Critical Software. This is where I will be doing my final project (not internship as all my teachers always say).
It will be about offline web applications, but since I am unsure how much I can write about it I will leave like this for now.

Today I am (probably) going to buy a new moto :D a Yamaha 125cc. I'll talk a bit more about it when I get it.

I make a VERY positive balance about my Erasmus experience. It is indeed amazing to spend some time away of your own country, meet new people, new cultures, new habits. It gives a new perspective when you come back. I recommend it to everyone.

More to come soon, now I've got to go :)

Japanese guy

A few days ago I met a Japanese, Hiro, guy here at Zilina. I had a great laugh when he said that his impression of Portuguese people was that we loved to sleep and to play football! He also laugh a lot when I told him that my impression was that Japanese people loved to take pictures of everything! And then he showed me his camera :D