by | Aug 25, 2007 | Software Development
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,...
by | Aug 10, 2007 | Software Development
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...
by | Aug 10, 2007 | Software Development
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...
by | Aug 1, 2007 | Software Development
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...
by | Jul 19, 2007 | Software Development
Update II: I couldn’t wait. I’ve installed the last Mono daily binary tarball and all the unit tests are passing now!. It works perfectly! Update:The Mono implementation of GetMethodFromHandle for generics is already in the svn, so rather than write a...
by | Jul 17, 2007 | Software Development
NHibernate best practices: It is not only for the article itself but for the links contained within it. References to great papers from Martin Fowler and links to cool samples. It shows parts of the CastleProject as well.
by | Jul 5, 2007 | Software Development
Update: Actually I’m changing this class a lot!. Check the svn head to see the current version. Update: Refactoring makes things simpler I am close to release the first API-stable version of my Boxerp framework which is only the client side part. The project has...
by | Jun 27, 2007 | Free/Libre Software
KDE is beautiful, no doubt of that and I like the development tools they have a some applications but… In terms of performance I still prefer Gnome. And in terms of “stability” I prefer Ubuntu (it doesn’t means that Suse is not stable!). Well,...
by | Jun 22, 2007 | Free/Libre Software
After 1 year using Mandrake, 5 years using Debian and about 2 using Ubuntu I decided to jump to Open Suse, having both systems in my laptop. The main reason is that I don’t have much time to struggle with packages and versions and I do want to get the latest...
by | Jun 8, 2007 | Software Development
ControlTemplates are one of the more powerful features of WPF as far as I know. They let you design custom made controls and to control their behaviour, all from XAML. That is very handy. Let’s say for example that you have a checkbox and another control beside...
