EDP Foundation Exhibitions 2000-2009

October 7th, 2009

In order to complement a PHD thesis regarding the EDP Foundation, a major cultural promotor, it was solicited  a graphical compilation of all its events between 2000 and 2009.

A cronological bar showing the length and calendar position of each occurrence and a series of spreadsheets with  a summary of each event [author[s], title, location, type and date] were created for that effect.

Chronological Event Bar

Chronological Event Bar (detail)

Below you can check the entire spreadsheet series. Read More »

Vision-Box new web presence

October 6th, 2009

Plura recently developed VisionBox’s new site @ http://vision-box.com.

Respecting the newly created identity by their in-house designer Katja Schalk, we integrated many new functionalities and a more intuitive navigation and sitemap.

It uses PWP, a module specifically created for the new Content Management System [CMS] and its comprised of a jQuery javascript framework and our own jQuery plugin, p. Also includes an extensive collection of API handling methods.

We consolidated the entire company’s media in one section, Company News, organized by category [ie. Press, News]. All the video is now handled by the newly created Youtube channel at http://youtube.com/visionboxtv.

An always present ajax mailing list submission form easily allows the user email and name to be collected for Vision-Box’s newsletter

Updating banners was made easy for the administrators, by simply uploading the correct image and adding the desired title. The latter can also be changed just by adding specific parameters to its height, and x/y position within the banner.

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Pluraâ„¢ Earth Location

September 9th, 2009

38.726911,-9.133791

Crowdsourcing

September 7th, 2009

Outsourcing is soooo 2003. One of the most interesting books we recently had the pleasure to read is Crowdsourcing from Jeff Howe, whose work we were already familiar via his Wired blog. According to the author, crowdsourcing can be defined as the following:

The White Paper Version:Crowdsourcing is the act of taking a job traditionally performed by a designated agent (usually an employee) and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people in the form of an open call.

The Soundbyte Version: The application of Open Source principles to fields outside of software.

It’s extraordinary how communities driven by common goals and interests are achieving much more that typical corporate structured enterprises, less expensively and effectively.
Being familiar with the open source community and its out-of-the box approach to many development problems it’s interesting how this methodology is impacting businesses and other areas unfamiliar, until now, with such unorthodox problem solving solutions. Plura will write more about this subject in the future, especially on how crowdsourcing may impact the architecture and design fields and, who knows, our own development process.

Kudos to our good friend Patrícia Proença for the excellent gift.

Dropbox

August 26th, 2009

Plura feels the need to give props to Dropbox, an invaluable collaborative tool, storage and sharing utility. Its full potential came to light on the current work-in-progress, an architectural competition with team members residing in London, Lisbon and Beijing.

One can quickly update large files and share them almost automatically because only modifications are actually synced. And it mantains an history of updates to each file, rendering possible the undoing of certain updates or the retrieving of specific versions of your file. More info here.

PADMIN 2.0

April 5th, 2008

After a considerable wait, PADMIN, Plura’s admnistrative system has finally seen its deserved update. The new system includes, among many other options:

  • Hierarchical categorization of items in a tree structure with muliple branch depth [category>subcategory>subsubcategory...]

Após um interregno a PADMIN, o sistema administrativo da Plura vê finalmente a tão esperada [e merecida actualização]. O novo sistema inclui, entre muitas outras opções:

  • Categorização Hierárquica em árvores de profundidade infinita [categoria > subcategoria > subsubcategoria]
  • Sistema de drag&drop para ordenar ficheiros

PLIB: Actionscript 3.0

April 5th, 2008
We’re happy to inform that our library of code was sucessfully migrated to Actionscript 3.0. Starting today all of our web developmente will be done in this new version. Flex and AIRdevelopment will soon follow. Hooray.

Temos o prazer de anunciar que toda a nossa bibilioteca de código em actionscript foi actualizada com sucesso para a mais nova versão, Actionscript 3.0.
O desenvolvimento de aplicações em
Flex e AIR seguir-se-á igualmente.

Bem Vindos | Welcome

April 5th, 2008
Welcome to Plura’s blog. We’ll try to inform you, if time allows, about our various projects and collaborations.

Bem vindos ao blog da Plura. Tentaremos, se o tempo o permitir, manter-vos a par com os vários projectos, colaborações em que estamos envolvidos.