Just Coding

Obsolete Silverlight Error

rido — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:52:47 GMT

The webHttpBinding Magic (another Spotify WCF Client)

rido — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:16:00 GMT

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 need...(read more)

Tracing WCF Messages

rido — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:24:24 GMT

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.diagnostics...(read more)

Great ALM Icons

rido — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:20:31 GMT

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...(read more)

Moles

rido — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:37:00 GMT

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...(read more)

A Beta Week (VS2010)

rido — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:03:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Debugging VB6 code with Visual Studio 2008

rido — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:54:29 GMT

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 !!!...(read more)

Is UX the new Agile?

rido — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:27:53 GMT

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 ),...(read more)

Classic Event Viewer

rido — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:42:00 GMT

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....(read more)

New Objectives for FY10

rido — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:47:40 GMT

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...(read more)

The Terra Project

rido — Mon, 04 May 2009 01:37:52 GMT

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...(read more)

VRTA: Como medir el rendimiento de un cliente Web

rido — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 02:35:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Azure aka RedDog is here

rido — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:01:00 GMT

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...(read more)

PDC Starts

rido — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 20:23:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Choosing a JavaScript library

rido — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:07:00 GMT

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...(read more)