Hoy ha sido el workshop de pruebas en Microsoft. A pesar de que el registro se llenó rápidamente y hubo que ampliar, quedaron sitios libres. Ha sido una pena que no me diese tiempo a terminar el ejemplo, asi que además de la presentación os dejo la...

Every time you need to zip a solution, you need to clean up all the folders that will be generated in the next build. If you think that the Build->Clean Menu options does what you think, your are wrong, it only cleans the bin folders, not the obj....

Hoy, en el evento de lanzamiento de Visual Studio 2010 en Madrid, he participado en una sesión un poco diferente. En vez de estar en una sala con la gente sentada en sillas, se ha realizado en el hall, con una pantalla LCD y la gente sentada...

  El próximo 29 de Abril voy a participar en un workshop acerca de “Pruebas en el desarrollo de aplicaciones empresariales”. Para registrarse, podeis utilizar este formulario: https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032449518&Culture...

.. and less successful projects. Almost every presentation about software methodologies starts with a reference of the Chaos Report from the Standish group. But because everytime I saw this report it referes to a 1995 study I have started to do not beleive...

Because VS 2010 is RTM, I have decided to update the trx2html tool, not only to support the latest TRX format, but also to work with the three versions we have of this files (2005, 2008 and 2010) from a single binary. Although the source code (solution...

Hace poco me encontré con una charla de Angel Medinilla http://www.irekia.euskadi.net/es/news/1186-angel-medinilla-habla-sobre-gestion-agil-proyectos-ciclo-talleres-innovacion-publica en la cual menciona una frase que me parece "genial": "un equipo...

One of the most common programming tasks today is to manage a series of WebRequests, mostly HttpRequests. In .Net we have been using the system.net.httpwebrequest.aspx class and friends like system.net.webclient.aspx to manage the URL I/O. If you...

Every time I tried WCF tracing and svctraceviewer I got stucked with the vast amount of information it generates. If you just need to inspect your messages, here is the simplest configuration I’ve found:   < configuration >   < system...

TMap for Visual Studio 2010 [ http://tmap.codeplex.com/ ] is a testing focused process guidance, looks great !! ..and it has a nice icon set to illustrate the software lifecycle like the development and test ones

I’ve been interesting in unit testing for some years now. One major aspect of unit testing is about how use designs that allows a separation of concerns so you can test your program as units (usually at class level), for this the interface basic programming...

This week I’ve spent some time to update my new laptop (a LenovoT61p) and to install some fresh bits. Right now I’m running: Windows 7 Enterprise x64 Office 2010 Beta Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 Also I have one VPC running Windows Server 2008 x86 SQL Server...

I was reviewing an old DNA app (more on this in a different post) and I got really surprised when I saw that  we can debug VB6 code with VS2008 !!!

In the last days I’ve seen how the UserXperience movement is getting attention in the community and everyone is doing some kind of “back to the basics” strategy. They recommend early prototype based on sketchs (look at the new Blend+FlowSketch stuff ...

While we migrate all our servers to Windows Server 2008, quite often we need to manage remote event logs from Windows 6.+ machines. However, the new Log Event Viewer introduced in Windows Vista can not read “old” event logs from XP and 2003 machines...

The vacation period has ended, my collaboration in the Terra project has finished and now I'm waiting for new consulting assignments. Anyway I’m going to try to set my technical objectives for this brand new fiscal year. 1) Keep this blog updated (at...

El principal motivo por el que este blog ha estado tan calladito en los últimos meses, es el proyecto en el que he estado inmerso desde Octubre de 2007. Esta semana el proyecto ha visto la luz: http://noticias.terra.es , ha sido un largo camino, y todavía...

Siempre que hablamos de rendimiento de aplicaciones web, instintivamente pensamos en cuantas peticiones concurrentes seremos de aguantar en el servidor, sin embargo, la percepción final del usuario depende de muchos otros factores. Cada vez que solicitamos...

Just one hour ago, Ray Ozzie has announced the new Cloud OS from Microsoft: Windows Azure, it's funny to see the word "windows" since it has no windows at all ;-). A lot of people should be blogging about it right now, so I do not add more comments here...

Not really the PDC, just the Pre-Conf sessions. I've chosen .Net Data Access from A to Z. By now, it's just a quick recap of Data Access technologies from the last years, how long from last time I hear someone talking about RDO or DAO... The session is...

Some months ago I started to dig in different JavaScript libraries like prototype, MooTools, Dojo or jQuery, (see http://delicious.com/rido/javascript for a complete list). As usual, each one has their pro's and con's. Today, Scott Gu has announced a...

If you know me, and my code, you know I dont like regions, but I cant stop people to use them, anyway what I can do is to configure VS to ignore regions and show always the code "expanded" by default:  

In the last months I've seen how SEO has become a day-to-day conversation in web projects. From web-standards like XHTML, to better ways to display and link content (REST style URLs, no querystrings, and so on...) But few people talk about how to organize...

I've been interviewed by some folks of DPE, here in Spain. You can watch it here: http://comandotomate.net/archive/2008/02/13/entrevista-a-rido.aspx

See update http://blogs.msdn.com/rido/archive/2010/04/10/trx2html-0-6.aspx I have released a new version (still in beta) that support Visual Studio 2008 Test Results File Format. It has been really easy, the underlying schema was pretty similar, so...