Must read this

por | Jul 17, 2007 | DDD

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.

Bindable Business Objects

por | Jul 5, 2007 | DDD

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...

A couple of days using OpenSuse

por | 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,...

Welcome Open Suse 10.2

por | 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...

WPF ControlTemplates and other stuff

por | Jun 8, 2007 | DDD

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...

WPF TreeView

por | May 23, 2007 | DDD

The treeview control is always a bit difficult, I remember my first contact with Gtk.TreeView and it wasn’t straightforward but the behaviour of WPF Treeview is still weird for me. Basicly if you use a HierarchicalDataTemplate you won’t be able to manage...

WPF is not enough mature

por | May 16, 2007 | DDD

Given the investment that MS is making in their new technology, WPF and its derivates (ie, Silverlight) are gonna be a very popular technology in the future and propably nice technology for the MS environment but so far I find this technology very inmature. Here you...

Interested in software architecture

por | Apr 23, 2007 | DDD

In the last few years I’ve been interested in software architecture and this tendency is growing everyday. I do think that I want to work as an architect within the next years. Few days ago I listened a really good presentation on SOA from Ron Jacobs that I...

WPF from Desktop to Web

por | Apr 18, 2007 | DDD

Lets see how to convert a Desktop WPF application in a Web Application. I am using VS 2005 for this. First of all we need to go the the project properties, and click on the “Signing” button in the left side. Mark the checkbox labeled “Sing the...

Some issues with WPF and VS

por | Apr 13, 2007 | DDD

We are working with Windows Presentation Foundation these days, using Visual Studio 2005 but the technology seems to be too new and the tools have some annoying bugs. The new XAML has some good things and some other scary problems you should be aware of. The goog...