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In the spirit of helping the next guy, here's some explanation for a problem that was surprising to me. We have recently upgraded our product to 64-bits and all developer workstations to Windows 2008 x64. The transition was easy and most things worked with minor or no tweak at all. We're still...
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Today I was reading the latest one of the many excellent blog posts Patrick Smacchia has put out on the topic of code metrics and caring for your code's quality. The passion this guy has for that topic is such that he has created the best tool for analyzing your code . But he doesn't stop there...
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The ALT.NET universe in Chicago gets together again on June 10 th , this time to learn and talk about Git , the SCM you're probably tired of hearing people jabbering about and still have not taken the time to look at. The presenter will be myself and I hope to explain how Git works and how it can...
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I don't want to be a wet blanket, but someone's got to put a stop to the IoC love fest going on out there. An Inversion of Control (IoC) container , for those of you were aren't yet familiar, allows you to retrieve instances of objects at runtime. A relatively common solution to a common...
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UPDATE: Steve has published the video of the presentation . There are still a few seats left for the next Chicago ALT.NET meeting. The meeting is on April 8 th and we will have a demonstration of FitNesse by Robert Martin. FitNesse is used by many people for acceptance testing and many in our group wanted...
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I don't come out often to sing praises for any product, I'd say I even tend to complain more than anything. That said, sometimes I come across a product that strikes all the right chords. Recently I started using Unfuddle and ...just Wow! What a delightful experience. I can't say I was exactly...
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My current project has an interesting story of being converted across platforms and programming languages. I hope I can talk about this conversion process some day (it was not manual). One of the side effects of mass conversions like this is that the final result tends to carry over some weird patterns...
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Being a Portuguese-speaking person living in the US, one of the things you have to get used to is the keyboard physical layout and key mappings. You know, Latin-originated languages tend to have thôse wéìrd chãraçtërs , which are really just diacritical marks applied to regular...
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In the last few months I have been using my MacBook to give presentation, both at work and not. I've been meaning to buy one of those presenter remotes. I even got to borrow one and tried it once and I must say it worked pretty well. Then I remembered that the MacBook came with that useless remote...
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Today I started researching and preparing my application for IE-8, or at least knowing what we would need to take care of before its release sometime next year. I started by downloading the VPC image with IE8 beta 2 because it seemed much more convenient than setting up a new virtual machine with XP...
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Over the past week I've had the distinct opportunity to have a first-hand look into NHProf , Ayende's upcoming profiler for NHibernate . It's been an honor to be part of the team that is putting NHProfiler through its paces. While NHProfiler is still in private beta it is very...
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I'd like to share a bit about the tools I recently used to build a new travel website, MuchaCostaRica.Com I launched this week with two partners. Actually, this entire post is a thinly veiled attempt at getting some Google juice over there, but if you're interested in building websites and better...
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Don't you hate when tools try to promote themselves in your work, especially if you paid for them? Last night I was noavigatin around in Reflector when I stoped by the embedded resource named System.Data.Odbc.OdbcMetaData.xml (in System.Data.dll 2.0). What I saw was both familiar and a little aggravating...
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After the IoC talk we had the monthly discussion. This time we tried the fishbowl format (or some approximation of that). The topic was ORMs.
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I finally got some time to import and upload the videos of September's Chicago ALT.NET meeting that happened almost 2 weeks ago. In this first video jdn shows how DI and IoC containers can be used to add flexibility to an application design.