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v1.3 de Farmácias de Serviço

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:49:59 +0000

Acabou de sair na App Store a versão 1.3 da minha app Farmácias de Serviço.

Incluí a opção, pedida por muitos utilizadores, de poder ver todas as farmácias, e não apenas as farmácias de serviço. O botão ‘24h’ no canto superior direito muda entra os dois modos.

Também mostra os vários tipos de ‘serviço’ das farmácias que estão de serviço utilizando cores diferentes nos alfinetes no mapa:

Verde: Permanente, aberto 24h.
Amaerlo: Reforço, aberto até as 22h.
Laranja: Disponibilidade, disponível por chamada.

Por favor instalem (é grátis) ou actualizem, e se gostam, deixem um comentário na App Store :)

http://itunes.apple.com/pt/app/farmacias-de-servico/id389764591?mt=8

rickwebb: God. I am getting so fed up with Google. This is this...

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:00:33 +0000

rickwebb:

God. I am getting so fed up with Google. This is this morning’s comparison. I experience this at least once a day now for a variety of things.

I may not be done with Google yet, but I can see the day I will be on the horizon, and I am looking forward to it.

v1.2 de Farmácias de Serviço

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 23:02:10 +0000

Acabou de sair na App Store a versão 1.2 da minha app Farmácias de Serviço.

Além de ter as localizações das farmácias muito melhoradas, agora também podem ver as farmácias de serviço perto de sua localização. De resto, está mais rápida e mais estável.

Por favor instalem (é grátis) ou actualizem, e se gostam, deixem um comentário na App Store :)

http://itunes.apple.com/pt/app/farmacias-de-servico/id389764591?mt=8

"Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make..."

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 14:08:32 +0100

“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”

- Steve Jobs - via @pedrocustodio (via dramalho)

Rope-A-Dope, Indeed

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 09:20:42 +0100

parislemon:

Sometimes you want so badly to say “I told you so!” after months of getting kicked in the ass, that you do so without really looking into what you’re writing about. Or even thinking, really.

Such is the predicament Dan Lyons finds himself in today.

The artist formerly known as Fake Steve Jobs wrote the following this morning immediately after hearing about Google buying Motorola:

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2010 iMac 27" Core i7 por €900? Com certeza...

Thu, 28 Jul 2011 16:00:21 +0100

Estava a procura de um iMac em 2ª mão no coisas.com quando encontrei este belo exemplo de um iMac 27” de topo e quase novo por apenas €900. Isso é quase metade do preço do mercado, então como é que isso podia ser possível?

Toca de enviar um email a mostrar interesse. Passado um dia recebi o seguinte email de resposta. Basta dizer apenas “a fool and his money are soon parted” :-)

Email recebido de “fred.bitmanager@gmail.com”:

Hello,

I write you this email because you contacted me regarding my product,iMac
Intel i7 2.8ghz 1TB 7200 8GB ram 27 excellent .The product is as new, it
comes with 23 months warranty ,all original packaging and accessories. Now I
work in London, for Britain’s Royal Guard and I received it from a friend of
mine as a gift on my birthday,one month ago.
I decided to sell it together with my wife because I want to do a good
deed: the money which I will get after selling will be donated to people in
need from Japan who suffered after earthquake and tsunami flood. Also, I
want to sell it at a good price ( 900 € ) to somebody who really need it.
Due to the job I have, my free time is limeted and because of it I can
not meet somebody face to face for my sell. So, I sell it via DPD
International and I will pay all the shipping cost, you must only pay for my
Apple iMac. You will make the payment to DPD and they will withhold the
money until you receive and inspect the product (you have 7 days for
inspection).
The inspection period will begin as soon as you receive the product at
your address.Meanwhile DPD International will protect your money! You can
see the product before you decide to buy it. This way we are both protected:
I will know that I have a serious buyer, who has the money to pay me and you
will be able to
see and inspect the product before buying it.
You will receive the package in approx. 48 hours after the payment to DPD is
checked!
After you will inspect the product and decide to keep it, DPD will forward
me the funds and the deal is done.
Remember you have 7 days to test it. If by any reason the product is not as
described or if you find any problems, you will return the product to DPD
International with no expenses. The payment details will remain at DPD until
you confirm that everything is OK and you want to keep it.
If you think the delivery terms are OK please send your shipping detaills:
- First & last name:
- Address :
- City & State:
- Postal Code:
- Country:
- E-mail & second e-mail address:
- Phone number:

I am waiting your reply,
Kind regards,
Fred Bates

PS: I attached you some pictures.I would rather talk about our bussiness in
English for a better communication.
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iMac Intel i7 2.8ghz 1TB 7200 8GB ram 27” excellent
RAM memory has been upgraded to 8GB.
The mouse and keyboard have never been used.
I just did a fresh install of the Snow Leopard. All CDs are included, even
the Apple logo stickers.
Please note no aditional software is included - just the Snow Leopard, just
like when you buy it from Apple.
Processor: Intel i7 2.8Ghz Quad-core
1TB 7200RPM hard drive
8GB RAM
SD card slot
27” glossy screen
Superdrive (burn and read DVDs)
Comes with Apple wireless keyboard and Apple Magic mouse (also wireless).
Will be sent in the original box.

alanvanroemburg: Apple iCloud icon golden ratio Alan van...

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 09:43:59 +0100

alanvanroemburg:

Apple iCloud icon golden ratio

Alan van Roemburg thanks to Takamasa!

App Farmácias de Serviço de novo a funcionar

Tue, 10 May 2011 16:45:12 +0100

Depois de mais de uma semana “em manutenção” o site da Associação Nacional das Farmácias (www.anf.pt) voltou, e assim, a fonte de dados para a minha App também voltou. Tudo está novamente a funcionar como deve ser.

Embora sendo um problema fora do meu controlo, peço desculpa para o incómodo.

App Farmácias de Serviço não funciona

Tue, 03 May 2011 11:36:22 +0100

Pois é, a App deixou de funcionar porque o servidor da Associação Nacional de Farmácias (www.anf.pt), onde vou buscar os dados para a App, deixou de ter registo de DNS a assim, por todos efeitos, não existe (experimentem ir à www.anf.pt e vão ver o que acontece).

Num ‘whois’ (na www.dns.pt) parece que está tudo OK, mas qualquer ‘lookup’ de DNS para o domínio anf.pt não devolve nada.

É um problema totalmente fora do meu controlo, infelizmente. É isto que dá criar serviços que dependem dos dados dos outros.

Só posso esperar que essa situação se resolve o mais rápido possível, e vou fazer o que posso para tentar alertar as pessoas que podem ajudar a resolver o problema.

dramalho: Impossible Lego - frustrating Hu-mans every day

Tue, 03 May 2011 11:16:23 +0100

dramalho:

Impossible Lego - frustrating Hu-mans every day

Taken with Instagram at CGD Sede

Tue, 15 Mar 2011 18:23:05 +0000

Taken with Instagram at CGD Sede

Another beautiful Lisbon building left to rot away :( (Taken...

Tue, 01 Mar 2011 17:44:27 +0000

Another beautiful Lisbon building left to rot away :( (Taken with Instagram at Av. Elias Garcia)

Reflections (Taken with Instagram at CGD Sede)

Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:44:10 +0000

Reflections (Taken with Instagram at CGD Sede)

Conselho = Concelho
;)

Thu, 27 Jan 2011 10:16:38 +0000

Obrigado, já corrigi ;)

Idea to Market in 5 Months: Making the Glif

Mon, 17 Jan 2011 15:06:59 +0000

Idea to Market in 5 Months: Making the Glif:

Really inspiring write up. Got an idea for a product? Then just do it! The old excuses just aren’t valid anymore.

russianpencil:

On July 11th, 2010, Tom Gerhardt and I had an idea for an iPhone accessory: a tripod mount that doubled as a stand. Five months later, customers began to receive our product, the Glif, in the mail. This turnaround, from idea to market in five months by two guys with no retail or manufacturing…

App Farmácias de Serviço actualizada

Fri, 14 Jan 2011 16:14:00 +0000

Só para informar que a App Farmácias de Serviço foi actualizada para a versão 1.1. O bug que à que tinha referido neste post foi corrigido. Ou seja, se a App estiver a correr em background, quando ela é aberto de novo, vai actualizar as Farmácias de Serviço se for preciso. Também corrigi alguns bugs que podiam causar a app de ir abaixo. Em termos de funcionalidade, infelizmente ainda não tem nada de novo.

Espero em breve conseguir fazer uma actualização para corrigir a situação em que, em alguns casos, a localização da farmácia no mapa não corresponde à verdade, e também para conseguir fazer uma pesquisa baseada na localização da pessoa, sem ter de escolher o Distrito e Concelho.

Fog in the Orient (Taken with Instagram at Gare do Oriente)

Tue, 14 Dec 2010 09:21:14 +0000

Fog in the Orient (Taken with Instagram at Gare do Oriente)

Careful with iOS 4 (iPhone) multitasking and threads.

Mon, 13 Dec 2010 17:20:47 +0000

In updating my Farmácias de Serviço App for iOS 4.x and multitasking I ran into an interesting problem related to multithreading. Whenever the app starts, as well as getting the current list of ‘service’ (open 24hrs) pharmacies, it also updates its database of all the pharmacies in Portugal. That update of the full database can take quite a long time (a minute or two) and is kicked off in its own thread so as not to interfere with the running of the app.

Pre iOS 4.x
Before iOS 4.x, when 3rd party app multitasking wasn’t available, when the app was closed, the thread updating the full database was killed off along with the rest of the app. If the update had only got halfway, no problem, it will be kicked off again the next time the user launches the app. Sooner or later the user is likely to keep the app open for long enough that the full update completes.

Post iOS 4.x
Since iOS 4.x, 3rd party app multitasking is allowed. Unless you explicitly disable multitasking (setting the UIApplicationExitsOnSuspend key to YES in Info.plist), your app will continue ‘running’ in background when the user presses the Home button. I put the word running in quotes because most of the documentation seemed to imply that unless your app registered to do one of three allowed background tasks (audio, location or voip), it was effectively suspended until the user opened your app again. On that basis, I didn’t see the need to change my code regarding the update of the database. When the user re-opened the app, if the refresh hadn’t completed, it would be kicked off again in a new thread.

In the iPhone simulator running on my iMac (where the database update runs much quicker than on the iPhone) that didn’t seem to cause any problems. However, when I started testing on my iPhone 4, every time I re-opened my app it crashed with an EXC_BAD_ACCESS in the database update code. I just couldn’t understand what was going on, until I left a couple of breakpoints in the database update code and, to my huge surprise, I was hitting those breakpoints repeatedly even when the app was closed / suspended! I finally realized what was going on: if you start a separate, relatively long running, thread in iOS 4.x (either using old school NSThreads or the now recommended Grand Central Dispatch), when the user closes your app that thread will continue running and doing its thing, regardless of whether you use UIApplication’s beginBackgroundTaskWithExpirationHandler: or not.

So, what was causing my app to crash was that I had two threads accessing the sqlite3 database at the same time. Neither the sqlite3 code nor my code is thread safe, so that led to the two threads inevitably crapping over each other. BANG.

The solution was to keep a reference to the DB refresh thread when I started it and, when the app was re-opened, only kick off a new database update if there isn’t already one in progress. No more crashes.

Conclusion
Contrary to what the Apple documentation seems to imply, if you create a separate background thread in your app, if it hasn’t finished when your app is suspended, it will carry on doing its thing in background. It will not get killed off or suspended. So, think carefully how do deal with background threads you create when your app is suspended and then re-opened.

Wow! My first iPhone development related post!

Foggy morning (Taken with Instagram at CGD Sede)

Mon, 13 Dec 2010 09:36:35 +0000

Foggy morning (Taken with Instagram at CGD Sede)

Stunning.

Sat, 04 Dec 2010 15:52:20 +0000

Stunning.

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v1.3 de Farmácias de Serviço

rickwebb: God. I am getting so fed up with Google. This is this...

v1.2 de Farmácias de Serviço

"Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make..."

Rope-A-Dope, Indeed

2010 iMac 27" Core i7 por €900? Com certeza...

alanvanroemburg: Apple iCloud icon golden ratio Alan van...

App Farmácias de Serviço de novo a funcionar

App Farmácias de Serviço não funciona

dramalho: Impossible Lego - frustrating Hu-mans every day

Taken with Instagram at CGD Sede

Another beautiful Lisbon building left to rot away :( (Taken...

Reflections (Taken with Instagram at CGD Sede)

Conselho = Concelho ;)

Idea to Market in 5 Months: Making the Glif

App Farmácias de Serviço actualizada

Fog in the Orient (Taken with Instagram at Gare do Oriente)

Careful with iOS 4 (iPhone) multitasking and threads.

Foggy morning (Taken with Instagram at CGD Sede)

Stunning.

Conselho = Concelho
;)