Put a scripting language in your life

I think my first scripting language was something called ARexx in my old Amiga 1200. I used to write ARexx script for environment tunning. After that the Bourne Again Shell (BASH) has been REALLY handy in the past years as I was working always in unix environments...

On productivity

Most of the people I’ve met think that being at work a lot of hours means more productivity. I mean in IT, in software development. For some reason they believe that the more hours you sit in front of the computer the better. I find this absolutely wrong,...

New and cool site: DotNetKicks.com

I’ve discovered this cool site: DotNetKicks.com which has been developed using the popular SubSonic framework. It seems to be like a Digg clone but regarding .Net development. What is very nice is that they consider Mono, CastleProject and other open source...

Securing a WCF Service

There is a lot of nice documentation at Microsoft’s website along with some other good sites but I’m going to add some details and my working configuration for my service. For me, coming from Linux environments it has been a bit tedious to figure out how...

WPF Strongly Typed ComboBox

This is a hack more than an elegant solution but given the WPF architecture it has been the only way I’ve found to make a ComboBox strongly typed. The problem I had is that I use to access the SelectedItem ComboBox’s property casting the object or using...