October 2007 Entries

Code Camp Buenos Aires 2007 Review

La verdad que el Code Camp fue un exito. Participaron alrededor de 300+ personas y algunas se me han acercado o mandado emails para felicitarnos por el evento. Como todo evento, el Code Camp tuvo sus problemitas que se pueden mejorar y los vamos a mejorar para el año que viene. El evento empezo 15 minutos mas tarde por problemitas tecnicos. Gonzalo de Microsoft y yo abrimos el evento donde explicamos un poco sobre Code Camp y como iba a funcionar. Despues hablaron los chicos de Imagine Cup y explicaron un poco sobre el evento y de su experiencia en Corea...

posted @ Tuesday, October 30, 2007 4:20 PM | Feedback (3)

Que ubicacion!

Falta una semana para el Code Camp Buenos Aires 2007 y estamos en el home page de Microsoft Argentina. Si todavia no te registrate lo podes hacer en la pagina oficial: http://www.microsoft.com/Argentina/CodeCamp/

posted @ Wednesday, October 17, 2007 2:39 PM | Feedback (1)

Traveling Through Time: from Delegates to Anonymous Methods to Lambda Expressions

We are very close to the release (February 2008) of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 which will include both C# 3.0 and VB 9.0. Now we can look back in time and see where the .NET framework has taken us. Delegates In .NET 1.x we were introduced to delegates. simply put a delegate is a pointer to a function (thanks Matt Winkler for that one.) So basically you have a function that can be assigned to another function or object. Let's look at the following code: public delegate bool StringCondition(string s);static void Main(string[] args){  string[] names = { "Jonas", "John", "Dave", "Joe", "Alexandra"...

posted @ Tuesday, October 09, 2007 8:29 PM | Feedback (1)

How can you tell your product has made an impression on society?

There are a bunch of products that have made a huge impression on our lives, but there are some products that have made a huge impression on society. We probably don't even think about it or even know the type of impression these products have made on our lives, but I can guarantee you that not one day goes by without being a victim of "Product Impressionism" (wow I think I just made up a term ). So how do you know when a product has reached the highest level of "Product Impressionism"? Well, let...

posted @ Thursday, October 04, 2007 5:57 PM | Feedback (2)

Sample Repository Posted

For those of you interested in downloading the code for last night's Code Idol session: "Using SQL Server 2005 as a Document Repository" you can do so here. For more details on the code you can also read my previous post on the topic here. The demo requires a table and bellow is the SQL to generate the table:USE [DocRepository]GO/****** Object: Table [dbo].[Doc] Script Date: 10/03/2007 09:12:38 ******/SET ANSI_NULLS ONGOSET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ONGOSET ANSI_PADDING ONGOCREATE TABLE [dbo].[Doc](  [DocID] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,  [DocName] [nvarchar](100) NOT NULL,  [Extension] [nvarchar](50) NOT NULL,  [DocContent] [varbinary](max) NOT NULL,CONSTRAINT [PK_Doc] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED (  [DocID] ASC)WITH (PAD_INDEX = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE = OFF,...

posted @ Wednesday, October 03, 2007 1:07 PM | Feedback (0)

Code Idol at Citrix

Please join me and the other looser contestants on the first ever Code Idol at Citrix, Ft Lauderdale. There will be 7 contestants (including me) fighting to be crowned "Top Geek." Each contestant will show off a piece of code they wrote and it will be judged by the three judges. To register click here. See you there...

posted @ Tuesday, October 02, 2007 7:13 PM | Feedback (1)