tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70930582011-04-22T03:57:13.064+02:00Insights from a software development passionate about the surroundings of this incredible world: technics, best and worst practices, the industry and - of course - it's miseries.Narciso Cerezohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02895448640548815590noreply@blogger.comBlogger91100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7093058.post-1121776898724954002005-07-19T14:36:00.000+02:002005-07-19T14:41:38.730+02:00

Hello, it's been nearly a year since I last posted on this blog. It's really been a hard year, with no spare time. If you think you work a lot, try starting your own business.My great project, Elondra, has taken almost all of my time, leaving a few for my familly and the university.But I'm back now, I don't have free time, but I've decided to continue with this blog. I will probably post just

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For many years I went from a project with MS technologies to another one with Java/Unix technologies, playing at both fields all the time. In fact, my main employer during that time (Digital / Compaq) made me go through the full MCSE + Internet certification path, so I was a bit more attracted by the MS easiness and productivity tools. But I must admit that Java and J2EE presented a much more

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I was tired of looking for information about how to build a good resume, what to do or not to do at an interview, and that kind of things. Often you find very general information, almost the same from one place to the other, nothing that adds value. But I've found a wonderful site about this, it's a blog from Microsoft HR (nothing to do with catbert :-) ). The informal style, the diary approach,

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I'm very happy that new modeling tools like these will arrive to the software community. It's a very promising approach to design, to improve RAD and software quality, and aligned with agile methodologies. Please, take a look at this post on TheServerSide.NET, and don't forget to follow the links that Dion points out, they're very worth reading.

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There're many editors and IDEs. I've tested many of them during these years, but there's one that "made me fall in love for the first time". It's IntelliJ Idea, from JetBrains. You can download a trial version, or even better, register for their EAP and try their work in progress. There're probably other IDEs with better GUI capabilities, but none with the advanced editing ones from Idea. Idea

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Well, here we get to the fun. First of all, I must say that you must have a style guide for your company or project, and that will be your guide. There are many things at guidelines that can be considered subjective, and such things will vary accordingly depending on the reader / user. I've put a link to a very comprehensive guide for C# from Philips, it is pretty C# specific, but many things

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Fortunately, there are many people using well defined naming and style conventions. But, through my professional life, I have got the doubtful privilege of bumping into many others that not. I must say that this does not only happen at what we should call low tech profile environments, but also at top consulting firms. In my humble opinion, this is a result of the indiscriminate hiring during the

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The second part of this interesting article by Eric Sink gives us a couple of very helpful insights about the small-ISV business. Eric teaches us how to know if our product has a market, and how to reach customers using the resources that we have at hand, such us blogs, where we can communicate with our possible users and learn from their interests or restlessness. The strategy is based on

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It doesn't matter your profession, life is a learning path. But perhaps there are two things that make us learn faster: failure and people. Failure teaches hard lessons, that can undermine our willing, but they make us wiser and help us taking better decisions, and that's the goal. People teach us new ways of looking at things, and bring us more knowledge, but that is not possible without

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