April 2008 - Sergio Pereira - Devlicio.us

Designing With Lambdas - Part III

In the previous two installments of the series we discussed how we can use lambdas to encapsulate more processing logic and to create contextual APIs . In this post I will show another example of the latter. Navigating directory structures This time around...

Published 04-29-2008 2:30 PM by sergiopereira

Filed under: .NET, featured, Series, Designing-With-Lambdas

Wrong .Net Version being loaded

At work one application has this intermittend problem that started when the developer started to use telerik's r.a.d. web controls. Once in a while, for some (until today) unexplained reasons, the telerik controls would start throwing this error:...

Published 04-23-2008 12:49 PM by sergiopereira

Filed under: .NET, Tips-and-Tricks

ALT.NET Conference Recap

ALT.NET Conference, take two. When I signed for this conference for the second time I didn't honestly think it was going to be as good as the first one. Boy was I wrong. I got the feeling that the attendees came incredibly prepared. Prepared to stand...

Published 04-21-2008 6:24 PM by sergiopereira

Filed under: .NET, Development, alt.net, Community

Redmond, the center of the ALT.NET universe

...at least for the next three days Tomorrow I'm hopping on a plane to Seattle/Redmond, WA to take part in the second ALT.NET Open Spaces Conference . I had the chance to be at the first one last October in Austin, TX and what a great experience that...

Published 04-17-2008 9:12 AM by sergiopereira

Filed under: .NET, Development, featured

And my point is

It's nice when you're trying to say something and find out that it has already been said by someone way more qualified than you. In the end it's good to know it happens because we like this software development thing. It's all in good...

Published 04-15-2008 1:57 PM by sergiopereira

Filed under: Development

Designing With Lambdas - Part II

In my last post I went through a very simple example of applying lambdas to achieve more DRY . In this installment I'll cheat a little and rehash a previous article I wrote before this blog existed. The article fits rather nicely in this series. Creating...

Published 04-14-2008 8:47 PM by sergiopereira

Filed under: .NET, Series, Designing-With-Lambdas

Designing With Lambdas - Part I

When our programming language of choice gets a new feature, it's usually not that hard to start using that feature right away from a consumer's point of view. I could use the introduction of generics in .Net 2.0 as an example. When I wrote my...

Published 04-12-2008 4:25 PM by sergiopereira

Filed under: .NET, featured, Series, Designing-With-Lambdas

Trying to get rid of MS Access

I have this small personal organizer application that helps me keeping track of where my hard earned money is going. There's nothing special about this application other that it was designed to be used only by myself and it works exactly the way I...

Published 04-09-2008 10:37 PM by sergiopereira

Filed under: .NET, Tools

The new data types in SQL Server 2008

I can't wait to use SQL 2008. I wish I could convince my DBA to jump on it as soon as it goes RTM, but the data peeps don't suffer of the same short attention span as us developers. Reading a recent Technet Magazine article and attending the launch...

Published 04-06-2008 12:43 PM by sergiopereira

Filed under: .NET, SQLServer

XHTML Validation Script using Ruby

In one of the projects I'm working on we produce a number of XHTML documents and we want these documents to be valid XHTML 1.0 Strict. As an example of how automation will set you free , I promptly thought that there was no way I would be submitting...

Published 04-02-2008 9:31 PM by sergiopereira

Filed under: Ruby, Automation

The fun continues

By now you either realized that my last post was a joke, not even written by me, or you are not even reading this post because I was automatically dropped from your feed list. The joke was obvious, but more interesting is trying to discover who wrote...

Published 04-01-2008 12:48 PM by sergiopereira

Attention! Major Announcement That Will Change Everything

Update This post is obviously not serious . I have a major announcement to make on my blog...one that I'm sure will bring much wrath and hatred to myself and my family...but one that I must make. I've enlisted the help of my long time friend,...

Published 04-01-2008 4:01 AM by sergiopereira

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