Advocacy and your personal brand
Advocacy and your personal brand
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A style missing perhaps? I mean honestly!
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I've found that many of the things Jeff Atwood posts about, most of us think about. The difference is that some are s...
I was installing SQL Server 2008 today (x64 bit version) and after the initial checks it does, I got an error about M...
I'll be doing a talk in Belgium next month at the Visual Studio User Group, where I'll be covering topics such as Sep...
Everyone knows that unless you're writing about Harry Potter, it's hard to get rich from a book, and even more so a t...
Here's my presentation from my TechEd talk on ASP.NET MVC. I'll be uploading the demos as soon as I get them cleaned ...
If you're doing multiple demos that somehow involve CSS, make sure you rename the default Site.css file ASP.NET ...
Ok, I know I said I'll never do it, but I'm going to try it out.
Sometime ago I posted an entry about some comments Michael Swindell had made about how Delphi was a better choice for...
Finally! A decent Skype client for the iPhone. I've just downloaded it today (yes, it's free) and it seems ...
Barry Kelly (who btw, looks nothing like his photo in real life) has made a nice post about how to have "managed...
Here's an updateon the roadmap for Linq2Sql. The post is pretty much confirming that they'rekilling off the...
Place your cursor on the class declaration Press Alt+Ins to get the code generation menu up from Resharpe...
I read a post today about how there should be a plug-in for Visual Studio to disable copy/paste, in order to prevent ...
In my previous post, I talked about confidence and how it plays an important role in the adoption of SCRUM. The next ...
Testing for exceptions in unit tests can be tricky. Most frameworks use the ExpectedException attribute to denote tha...
Many of us have been solo developers for many years. I personally started working on customer projects as a one-man s...
Arrived yesterday from the Software Developer Conference near Amsterdam. Excellent conference and a lot of fun. They ...
Well Marco's probably been the first one to blog about it. My only comments are:a) Change the name. PRISM is already ...
I had a short talk yesterday on ASP.NET MVC. For someone that has been developing using ASP.NET and seeing ASP.NET MV...
On Steve Martin's blog
Question has been asked on some mailing lists recently, but I'm curious as to what music/thing (if at all) do you lis...
I was just reading on a blog a reference to an article Michael Swindell published about native application developmen...
Last year iMeta was given the 100 Tech Track award, as one of the top 100 fastest growing IT companies. It was at pos...
This is awesome news
This one is more of a personal reminder. I've just tried to connect to the office VPN and noticed my username/passwor...
20 minutes left in my session on Continuous Integration. Thinking great! More than enough time to go thru a demo with...
Become a more productive [computer user] (insert Developer, Excel Programmer, Word User, Internet Surfer....). Every ...
I was setting up a recurring appointment today in Outlook that has "no end". I hate recurring appointments ...
I was having a conversation with a developer the other day about working on different areas of a project. The subject...
I'm coming across a lot of tests with names like this:AddEmployee_Should_Pass_When_Not_Duplicate() {.....}AddEmployee...
The Build Notification Tool for Visual Studio 2008 stops working if you install Visual Studio SP1. It sort of explain...
Two teams work on two different components of a project. Team A works on component A, and to keep things simple, Team...
Well it's that time of year again, when many conferences are all jam packed into one and a half months. I'm...
I was just reading through some of the comments on Anders' blog in response to his post on positive feedback on...
IoC containers are great. They take away the burden of having to create dependencies before using things, and when yo...
I've been using Google Chrome for over a week now. What I like about it...- The tab completion for search engines. Aw...
I can't stress how important naming is, in all aspects, not only tests. The first thing someone looks at when vi...
I was having a conversation with a colleague of mine the other day. We were talking about user interfaces and how a s...
I was reading a comment in reply to this post on DelphiExtreme, by Ken Knopfli, and I quote: Delphi programmers ...
Take a look at the following test: 1: public void EmployeeServicesTest_GetAllEmployeesByCom...
In a follow-up to my previous post on mocking, here is the same code re-factored so that it does not depend on the in...
Get it here: http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/download/?41nlThey've been working on improving performance.
I've moved my blog to a new engine. If you're subscribed to my blog using Feedburner, which you should be :...
I try, as much as I can to practice TDD, because I truly believe that it helps me shape the design, and that is the p...
You like planes? You'll love this virtual tour...
Better not to use datamodules than to use them incorrectly...Want to find out more, come to SDC this October
This isn't the first time it's happened...serious memory leak. Sitting on a blank page, just going up...
Using a IoC container (irrelevant which one but let's assume it's Unity). Here's my main method:And th...
Theater Security really annoys me. A couple of days ago I made a reservation for one night in a Hotel. I called the H...
AppStore is now active for Spain, which is very cool. And yes, the first app I downloaded was PhoneSaber. My wife thi...
I've been really impressed with Safari on my iPhone. All my favorite web sites look good and work correctly. Eve...
I read something interesting on Scott Hanselman's blog the other day regarding WPF. It was in relation to activa...
I have a tendency of dropping and scratching my phones (also known as having two kids). So I decided to be cautious t...
It was released in Spain yesterday, and I managed to pick one up today. The best way to describe it, is "it just...
I've been using Firefox for a long time now...longer than I remember, and before that I was using other NON-IE b...
I'm testing out a new IoC container framework (more on that later), and so I decided to setup some tests to see ...
Skype is a pretty complex program in the sense that it has quite a lot of options. However, one thing lacking is an o...
For the past couple of years I've had many problems with Outlook, but mainly one big problem: "The Data Fil...
I've updated the support for Silverlight in Intraweb to support the changes for the Silverlight 2 beta that has ...
If you haven't been running the nightly builds and have been waiting for a beta, here it is. Not much you can sa...
Next week (finally) “Introduccion a Windows Communication Foundation” will hit the book stores. It’s the first book I...
I frequently get e-mails from people that have been at my talks about the theme I use in Visual Studio. Instead of co...
A lot of times when you're introduced to Unit Testing, you're sold on the fact that it's the best way ...
Many know I've been a Finalbuilder fan from day one. Recently they came out with a server version of their produ...
Now I'm not one to brag so I don't like these types of "self-promoting" blog posts, but what the hell....Here's an in...
Microsoft's published a new site named Visual Studio Gallery that enables third-parties (and MS itself) to publish ex...
Jeff Atwood posted an entry a couple of days ago about adding a checkbox to the Windows dialog boxes to display your...
During my talks, people normally ask me about specific tools they see on my system. About a year ago I posted about a...
Here’s a tough question. Suppose you buy a printer (let’s call it the HPC4380 All-in-one), and let’s assume you insta...
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In Spain, bank accounts have twenty digits, two of which represent the check digits (known in Spanish as “Digito de C...
I got one of those really nice e-mails today. I've been awarded with the Microsoft MVP Award for 2008 in the cat...
I’ve been having extremely bad pain in the joint that joins my thumb with the rest of my hand. I didn’t realize what ...
When developing applications using a layered architecture, one of the problems that arise is how to pass information ...
Halfway through the install, I get prompted with the following I checked, only one instance of the setup (/installer)...
A small summary of TechEd
At TechEd today Soma announced the release of VS 2008 in November. Cool!
I never used Aero when I had Vista installed. I found it too flashy and not "agile". I also had a pro...
I'm off to Barcelona for TechEd tomorrow. It's going to be a great opportunity to catch up with some old friends. The...
I feel liberated. I've moved back to XP and I'm a happy camper. Although I virtually pulled an all-nighter, which tur...
Going to conferences is a great chance for you to not only gain technical skills and go to parties, but to also do so...
If something is broken, get it fixed. Don't delay it. Don't try and leave it for when you have time. This is a comple...
Once in a while, along comes a program or utility that really is impressive. Launchy is one of these. Neal told...
It's been a hectic 1'5 months. Apart from all the work I have, I've been flying around Europe speaking at conferences...
Only five days remaining for October Conference and we still have some space left. You can register here. Since it's ...
Scott G. used ALT.NET conference to announce support for MVC natively in ASP.NET. Read more on Jeffrey's blog
Very good interview with Scott Bellware regarding Ruby and Rails and his thoughts on the MS community. I think he tal...
Terminal 2, which is mostly European destinations has had a change in policy at the security checkpoint, and unless i...
It's become common for me to be delayed on Iberia flights, specially those going to Frankfurt*. So while I'm sitting ...
Only Apple could bring out a phone with such a slick design, independently of the superb funcionality it comes with. ...
I have 3 sessions at Basta. This is not a German only conference. There are quite a few international speakers and pl...
We've all seen MS presentations when the last slide finishes up with "Your Potential. Our Passion (TM)", it...
Not the first negative comment I've heard on the Zune, but by far the most entertaining! Check it out here
I start to install Windows 2003 in a VM Machine from my MS DVD that has all the operating systems you would ever want...
Consuming Collections from Web Services is not something new. However, if you have ever tried to bind the collection ...
If there ever was a software application that deserved a WOW, that is Acronis's True Image. I mean WOW! Seriousl...
Very impressed with Google Talk. Both the Chat and the Voice are clear and simple to use. I really hope it takes off....
I'll be at the Entwicklerconference in September giving two sessions on Security. If you're in Frankfurt, m...
For those of you who use FireFox, theCharameltheme looks extremely nice and it takes up little space so you get more ...
Well, surprisingly my Telephone connection didn't die on me while I was online. I'll be calling the telepho...
Cool! I'll be going to Singapore to present a session(s). Initially it was 3, now it's down to 1, but might...