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Archive for March, 2008

Mar
12
2008

I have been an IEEE member and an IEEE Computer Society member since 2003, the year I started my undergraduate studies.  From 2003 to 2007, I have been a Student Member, and since graduating, I have been a Professional Member.  The main reason I decided to join such an organization as a student was simply [...]

Mar
11
2008

I received the following error message from Visual Studio after failing to load a solution file.

So there I am, sitting in front my monitor, thinking how small of a creature I am in this endless universe.  I’m also thinking of everything that was going on in the world as I was wasting [...]

Mar
10
2008

I’ve been using Launchy for almost a year now, and I’ve concluded that it is a must-have tool for any Windows users and developers. Launchy is an open source keystroke launcher for Windows. As described in the tool’s official website:
Launchy is a free windows utility designed to help you forget about your [...]

Mar
8
2008

Back in 1997, Steve McConnell wrote an article for IEEE Software called “The Programmer Writing“. At the end of the article, Steve clearly states the reason why you should write or blog about your passion, knowledge and experience in software development:
If you are actively developing software, I urge you to write about your insights. [...]

Mar
7
2008

Okay, I’m trying something new for this week’s Geek Links.  From now on, I’ll be sharing the articles I have bookmarked in my del.icio.us account in the beginning of every week  This will also help me to consolidate my links in one place and to simply refer to it.  It’s also an easier task to [...]

Mar
6
2008

About a year ago, Krzysztof Cwalina gave a presentation on Designing .NET Class Libraries at Microsoft Research.  This is not your typical tech talk…it’s actually three hours long and the content goes in great depth, covering various practices and guidelines to consider when programming with the .NET Framework.  I sure learned a lot of things [...]

Mar
5
2008

There were two courses, during my undergraduate studies in Software Engineering, that forever changed my perspective towards software quality: Software Quality Assurance, and Software Quality Control and Testing. The former dealt more with quality assurance and process improvement with various frameworks (CMMI, ITIL, Six Sigma, etc.). The latter dealt more with service level agreements, various [...]

Mar
4
2008

<update>As Eugenia pointed out, there are a few differences between the Professional Edition and the Enterprise Edition.  I have included a screenshot of TeamCity’s features comparison for both editions.</update>
Great news! TeamCity 3.1 was released earlier today.  I’ve been involved in setting up a continuous integration environment at the enterprise level for one of our clients [...]

Mar
4
2008

Here’s a great tool available for free, whether you’re starting out with LINQ for the first time, or whether you’re looking for a better way to write and test your LINQ queries. Written by Joseph Albahari, co-author of C# 3.0 In a Nutshell, LINQPad is a simple visual editor from which you can write [...]

Mar
3
2008

This is a very interesting article published by The Daily Telegraph.  Depending on which part of the brain you use the most, the left part of the brain or the right part of it, you should see the woman below dancing clockwise or counter-clockwise. 
According to the article, if you see her dancing clockwise, then [...]

Mar
1
2008

If you’re a Windows user looking for a way to analyze your hard drive(s) usage statistics, you can stop looking around because WinDirStat is the tool you’re looking for. Published under the GNU General Public License (which means it’s free), this tool is so useful, that I sometimes wonder why Microsoft didn’t include it [...]

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