Spanish Developer Bits http://blogs.msdn.com/rido/atom.xmlCommunity Server2008-02-12T22:57:00Zhttp://blogs.msdn.com/rido/archive/2009/11/05/moles.aspx2009-11-05T21:37:00Z2009-11-05T21:37:00ZI’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 is a MUST. Once you start with interfaces, you will follow with mocks, and stubs. However, this approach has a big limitation when you want to test code that depends on static methods, typical examples are ASP.Net context or SharePoint API. The...(<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/rido/archive/2009/11/05/moles.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9918411" width="1" height="1">ridohttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/rido.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/rido/archive/2009/10/23/a-beta-week-vs2010.aspx2009-10-22T23:03:00Z2009-10-22T23:03:00ZThis 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 2008 WSS 3.0 TFS 2010 Beta 2 And the first experience is really, really good. I have to admit, since this set of releases I was a little bit frustrated with the net .Net technologies, it looks like Ms says: “here are the frameworks, use it, but we...(<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/rido/archive/2009/10/23/a-beta-week-vs2010.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9911743" width="1" height="1">ridohttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/rido.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/rido/archive/2009/10/05/debugging-vb6-code-with-visual-studio-2008.aspx2009-10-05T15:54:29Z2009-10-05T15:54:29ZI was reviewing an old DNA app (more on this in a different post) and I got really surprised when I saw that&#160; we can debug VB6 code with VS2008 !!!...(<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/rido/archive/2009/10/05/debugging-vb6-code-with-visual-studio-2008.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9903214" width="1" height="1">ridohttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/rido.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/rido/archive/2009/09/24/is-ux-the-new-agile.aspx2009-09-25T00:27:53Z2009-09-25T00:27:53ZIn 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 ), and it sounds like the old agile pratice… that’s the internet buzz...(<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/rido/archive/2009/09/24/is-ux-the-new-agile.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9899157" width="1" height="1">ridohttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/rido.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/rido/archive/2009/08/24/read-2003-event-logs-from-2008.aspx2009-08-25T00:42:00Z2009-08-25T00:42:00ZWhile 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. I thought the only way to solve this issue was installing the Client AdminTools for W2K3, however, today I’ve found a better solution: Did you know that the “classic” event viewer is still available in the new OSs? Just register els.dll (yes, with regsvr32)...(<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/rido/archive/2009/08/24/read-2003-event-logs-from-2008.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9882989" width="1" height="1">ridohttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/rido.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/rido/archive/2009/08/21/new-objectives-for-fy10.aspx2009-08-21T15:47:40Z2009-08-21T15:47:40ZThe 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 least once a week with short posts and once a month with a major content) 2) Maintain organized set of online rido resources (codeplex, SPSites, social networks) 3) Still learning dev related technologies - IIS7, SQL and MOSS - Dev10 and Net4 - Silverlight...(<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/rido/archive/2009/08/21/new-objectives-for-fy10.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9878595" width="1" height="1">ridohttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/rido.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/rido/archive/2009/05/04/the-terra-project.aspx2009-05-04T01:37:52Z2009-05-04T01:37:52ZEl 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 quedan muchas cosas por hacer, pero ya hemos dado el primer paso: “estar en el aire”. Aunque a primera vista no parezca muy novedosa, ni siquiera muy complicada de hacer, (por lo que 20 meses es a todas luces un tiempo excesivo), el principal reto...(<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/rido/archive/2009/05/04/the-terra-project.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9584981" width="1" height="1">ridohttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/rido.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/rido/archive/2009/01/23/client-performance-testing.aspx2009-01-23T02:35:00Z2009-01-23T02:35:00ZSiempre 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 una página web, el navegador se prepara para la descarga de todos los recursos enlazados desde el html, imágenes, hojas de estilos, o scripts. La forma en la que se descargan estos ficheros varia en función del navegador, pero el factor más importante&#160;...(<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/rido/archive/2009/01/23/client-performance-testing.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9371593" width="1" height="1">ridohttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/rido.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/rido/archive/2008/10/27/azure-aka-reddog-is-here.aspx2008-10-27T21:01:00Z2008-10-27T21:01:00ZJust 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....(<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/rido/archive/2008/10/27/azure-aka-reddog-is-here.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9018691" width="1" height="1">ridohttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/rido.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/rido/archive/2008/10/26/pdc-starts.aspx2008-10-26T20:23:00Z2008-10-26T20:23:00ZNot 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 getting more interesting, now we have started to see the Entity Framework with Michael Pizzo, this guy knows how to make a demo, he is adding more relationship as attendees ask for it !! cool......(<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/rido/archive/2008/10/26/pdc-starts.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9016805" width="1" height="1">ridohttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/rido.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/rido/archive/2008/09/29/choosing-a-javascript-library.aspx2008-09-29T12:07:00Z2008-09-29T12:07:00ZSome 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 new Microsoft Visual Studio partnership with jQuery, this are really good news......(<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/rido/archive/2008/09/29/choosing-a-javascript-library.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=8968636" width="1" height="1">ridohttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/rido.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/rido/archive/2008/09/07/how-to-show-coderegions-expanded-by-default.aspx2008-09-07T02:31:40Z2008-09-07T02:31:40ZIf 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 &quot;expanded&quot; by default: &#160;...(<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/rido/archive/2008/09/07/how-to-show-coderegions-expanded-by-default.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=8929159" width="1" height="1">ridohttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/rido.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/rido/archive/2008/05/29/seo-keywords-and-my-pagerank.aspx2008-05-29T01:56:00Z2008-05-29T01:56:00ZIn 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 and measure content quality to improve the Page Rank. So I started to monitor how people find and use this blog. Due to my current job situation I can't blog too much, however "Just Coding" still have some activity, look at the last 14 days: 929...(<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/rido/archive/2008/05/29/seo-keywords-and-my-pagerank.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=8557045" width="1" height="1">ridohttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/rido.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/rido/archive/2008/02/16/video-interview.aspx2008-02-16T21:33:18Z2008-02-16T21:33:18ZI'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...(<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/rido/archive/2008/02/16/video-interview.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=7738726" width="1" height="1">ridohttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/rido.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/rido/archive/2008/02/12/trx2html-update.aspx2008-02-13T00:57:00Z2008-02-13T00:57:00ZI 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 I could reuse the whole UI without modification, just 2 hours of XSLT refactorings ;-) http://www.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ProjectName=trx2html&amp;ReleaseId=10672 Note that this release only supports the 2008 format. Next versions will support 2005/2008 in one binary file....(<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/rido/archive/2008/02/12/trx2html-update.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=7654914" width="1" height="1">ridohttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/rido.aspx