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Ten years ago Rancid BBS was going online. The Bulletin Board System was built on top of Remote Access 2.1 and was running on a 386SX and 8MB RAM with a 14,400bps modem. The BBS had more than 10 calls every night and about 2000 registered users...

Today Microsoft announced the release of the .Net Framework 3.0. There are four new technologies introduced in the .Net Framework 3.0: Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Windows Workflow Foundation (WF)...

Today in the Latin America Agile Software Development forum (laasd) someone post this Google Tech Talk by Ken Schwaber. The Tech Talk Abstract:Scrum is an amazingly simple process that causes many, many changes when it is implemented. This seminar...

Simon Muzio has posted a list of upcomming webcast that are live from Redmond. Take a look at them and register to those that interest you. 19-Oct  Live From Redmond: Introducing the Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions26-Oct  Live...

These days I've been working doing a user's interface for a couple of scripts. For that I used a HTML Application (HTA). Developing a HTA is a very easy task, but because I don't like to start something from scratch I searched for some scripts snippets...

Well It's has been a lot of time without posting. I've been really busy these months but I think I will post more often from now :) Last August I attended to a ScrumMaster certification course from Scrum Alliance. The course was taught by Tobias...

Microsoft announced the acquisition of Winternals / Sysinternals. Microsoft continues with its policy of hiring very smart people :) Here it is the official press release: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/jul06/07-18WinternalsPR.mspx...

I was thinking about to buy a 19" LCD Display when I found a website with a pretty cool display. It's the Helio Display from IO2 Technology. Heliodisplay images are not holographic although they are free-space, employing a rear projection system in which...

These two last months I've been working with some classic data mining algorithms like Apriori, D-ARM, K-means, Fuzzy C-means, Birch and so on. I found implementations of most of them in Java and other languages like c++ or c. There is also a nice open...

If you are used to put your website under maintenance while you are updating it you will love this nice ASP.NET 2.0 feature. You just need to create a file called app_offline.htm (with the static content that you want) in the root directory...

Yesterday I was at Campo Argentino de Polo in Buenos Aires, Argentina to hear Oasis live. The concert was nice, they rock very well but I have to say that it was a little short, the sound was really bad and at the field there was too much people. They...

As you may know there is no way to manage the assembly file name of a web site application in Visual Studio 2005 neither its version and build number. I like to have control over those properties, and so does theVS 2005 team, because they...

To make a long story short, the people running the Commerce Starter Kit development and community seem a little short minded. They censor threads where other developers like me share a view different from their view.What just happened is almost hilarious....

A while ago I posted about ASP.NET 2.0 learning resources. This post about ASP.NET 2.0 Membership, Roles, Forms Authentication and Security Resources pointed me to an excellent series of videos called The “How Do I” Video Series. Be sure to check them...

Here you have a good pattern to handle values from the QueryString on your ASP.NET 2.0 pages:int _id = 0;string id = Request.QueryString["id"];if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(id)){   int.TryParse(id, out _id);}For more information or to discuss about it...

Rob Howard commented today that there is a module for Community Server 2.0 that allows you to add links to digg.com and reddit.com submissions on your posts. Well, the module is not quite yet on the streets.I look forward to something like it. It would...

When using the new DataSource objects you don’t need to write code for data binding. Code like this is not needed anymore:DropDownList1.DataSource = DataSet1;DropDownList1.DataBind();DropDownList1.Items.FindByValue(Request.QueryString[“state”]).Selected...

Last year I went to the Ready Launch Tour 2005 and as Ezequiel tells in his post I won a Imation Disc Stakka. But it didn't arrive until yesterday (three months later!). The CD Stakka is pretty cool (but a little big for my desktop). The management...

These days I've been working on RSS feeds. For the standard I used this RSS 2.0 Specification and to be sure that I did the things right I used this feed validator....

I've just updated the blogs to Community Server 2.0. To make the blogs work at the root I followed the same process as for the Beta 2. Working nice so far. :)...

Scott Guthrie have been posting a ton of interesting content lately on his blog. I found thru it that a new ASP.NET 2.0 Starter Kit is on the streets. It's the eBay Selling Starter Kit for VB.NET. I would say too bad if it's only in VB.NET, but I will...

I've just downloaded Community Server 2.0. The naming for the versions have changed to be aligned with the naming that Microsoft gives to versions of Visual Studio 2005. The source code will be released later today. This blog is using the Beta 2, I'm...

The latest version of the most used web browsers like Mozila FireFox 1.5, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 or Safari have a nice feature to discover RSS feeds. This feature is implemented as a little icon on the address bar that indicates if the...

Today I've been asked about how to write text on the row header column of a Winform DataGrid (The first column of the grid). I know that it can be hidden with the RowHeadersVisible property, but I didn't know how to write on it. The WinForms DataGrid...

Scott Guthrie posted about a new service called Squeet.com (pronounced Skweet) built with ASP.NET 2.0. It allows you to receive any RSS or Atom feeds in your e-mail. I’m currently using Rojo. I really don’t want more e-mails in my Inbox,...