Today I've disoverd Notepad2, a notepad replacement with syntax highlighting for most popular languages, http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html . I build it in my own box, and now I'm ready to try to replace the original notepad.exe, I'm following...

I'm not a Java developer, however I'm very interested in AOP, and I'm sure this tutorial it's going to provide me a lot of ideas about AOP. AOP is presented as an evolution to OO and Component Based Programming, it's a kind of interception mechanism that...

This is my first time at OOPSLA ( http://oopsla.acm.org ). All the IT conferences I've been in my life have been Microsoft events, TechEd, MGB, etc. The format of the OOPSLA is quite different. There are a few sessions for the whole attendees instead...

I've been trying to set up a continuous integration environment using NAnt, and CC.Net, but I did'nt know the best option to synchonize the AssemblyVersion.cs, the CC Label, and the versions tasks of NAnt. This article http://bitarray.co.uk/marc/archive...

Ward Cunningham talked about eXtreme Programming, I liked too much this talk because he was capable to change and correlate so disperse topics as OO, DesignPatterns, WikiWikiWeb and XP naturally. The name of the presentation is: "System of Names", so...

I'm not a C++ guy so my advice on this session it's not very accurate. The topic covered here is about the evolution of the C++ Language and the integration with the MS Virtual Machine (a.k.a. CLR). Most of the time of the presentation has been spent...

I know, Google is the BEST, however it's good to know that there are different alternatives out there, try http://techpreview.search.msn.com/ and give it a chance !!

The first talk of today was CodeComplete 2 by Steve McConnell. His popular book Code Complete has beed reedited, and he is talking about it, here are my notes about it. First Version Written in 1993 95% is still OK Book companion WebSite http://cc2e.com...

Today I've spend the whole day learning about Enterprise Integration Patterns This tutorial is covered by the authors of the book Enterprise Integration Patterns, Bob from IBM and Gregor from ThoughtWoorks. There is a book companion web site http:///www...

It's the opening keynote of OOPSLA. The Future of Programming from Richard Rashid of MS Research. I didn't like too much since he spend half of his time talking about the past not the future, and how things are very difficult to predict. He talked about...

This is my first Practitioner Report. It's a kind of session where a set of proffesionals talks about the realities of a concrete topic, in this case the role of "The Software Architect". this are the notes I took Architect is the interface between our...

I found this link http://www.3leaf.com/wiki in Channel9, and I will spend some time reading it. Stay tuned !!

Last day at OOPSLA has started with Allan Vermeulen, CTO of Amazon WebServices. The talk has not been a technical one, instead Allan discover to Business Models behind the Amazon Web Service. All the demos were online showing different web sites that...

I belive in wikis, and the number 1 is http://c2.com so I've created my own page here http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?RidoMin

I didn't know who was Alan Kay, but yesterday, when I thought there was nothing interesting to see here @ OOPSLA I found the main ballroom was full, with a lot people waiting to see Alan Kay talk. I got impressed about how many knowledge can a human store...

It has been my first "Panel", so I first of all I would like to introduce you to he talk "format". In a Panel there are a number of analysts who express their opinion about the current discussion, after that the attendees ask about a specific concern...

It's an "OnWard" what means a short (30-45 minutes) explanation of some work in progress. Example Centric Programming it's an addendum to UnitTesting and TDD. The technic it's no very simple because it relies in hacking the compiler, so you can run a...

The next OnWard Session was about finding bugs. Everybody knows bugs can come from requirments, specs or code. This sessions was focused on bugs introduced in the development phase of a project. After analyzing some bug patterns, the authors discovered...

It has been a great panel, with MartinFowler and Steve McConnel as analysts (with others I didn't know) There has been a big debate about this popular topic. It's the first time I see Martin talking and I liked too much, he started saying "I'm sick of...

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The first Tutorial I have choose was about Model Driven Architecture, however this tutorial has been cancelled, so I have to choose another one. There was two tutorials I found interesting: Large scale UML design, User centered design. Finally I choose...