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After 6 months of waiting, last week I received my Windows 7 Ultimate Commemorative Edition. This edition is an special edition awarded to beta testers for their positive feedback. I am really thankful to Microsoft for considering my feedback valuable. I was accepted into the Windows 7 Beta Program since...
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Hi, this post is just to share the sample application that was showcased on the session "How To Develop .NET Applications that take advantage the new features of Windows 7". The session was hosted by Daniel Montero and me at TechDays 2009 Chile. As a side note the focus of the application was...
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I’ve been using Windows 7 Enterprise (RTM) for about a week now, and I must say, I really see the benefits of working with it. Although you might consider it “Windows Vista +”, I’m sure that there’s still plenty of new features I haven’t noticed yet. But for the end user (like me) there are a couple...
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Last Friday I was at the SDN Event in Houten , where I followed several UX tracks, and spoke with the speakers afterwards. I was trying to find out how they worked with Designers and Developers and the technique’s Silverlight and WPF. And almost everybody agreed (except Kevin McNeish for some reason...
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Long time, no post. I just want to share the excitement for joining the distinguished panel of Judges for the 2009 Imagine Cup Worldwide Finals. The finals will be held in Cairo, Egypt, from Friday, July 3 through Wednesday, July 8. We will be staying at the Intercontinental Citystars Cairo , where the...
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Ever since the internal unveiling of Windows Azure as project “ Red Dog ” at our internal TechReady conference in July 2008, I’ve been very interested in this Software+Services platform. Technical strategist Steve Marx from the Windows Azure team recently released a cool sample app called The CIA Pickup...
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What Wikipedia says about ALM: Application lifecycle management (ALM) is the marriage of business management to software engineering made possible by tools that facilitate and integrate requirements management , architecture , coding , testing , tracking , and release management . Like most people know...
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Most people probably already know that Microsoft's MIX09 event took place last week. Because I am specialized in Microsoft development, this event has introduced a lot of interesting new stuff. But because there are so many people already blogging about the new releases and new developments, that...
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For those here in the Netherlands, my company has given the opportunity for those interested to learn more about Adaptive IT. The event is on the 20th of April. Look for more information on the invitation that is displayed below (in Dutch). You can register yourself at the Inter Access Adaptive ICT page...
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At the end of January the SOA & BPM conference was in held in Seattle . I intended to go there but I didn't get authorisation to go there from my boss unfortunately. There was a lot of information on BizTalk 2009, Dublin, WCF & WF. Lucky for me and I guess for a lot of other people that couldn't...
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Since I still need to upgrade my MCSD.net certification towards MCPD Enterprise Application Developer I was looking around for information regarding all the new certifications. I came across an useful overview, see attached. I plan to do the first update exam(70-553) in the beginning of April.
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Yesterday Microsoft published a ~ 100 TB image update to Live Search Maps . And finally, we have bird’s eye imagery for Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Since I live in Amsterdam , you can imagine that I am pretty thrilled about this. This is the bird’s eye image of Dam Square in Amsterdam : The...
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Since the release of .NET Framework 3.0 and 3.5 I have noticed that not only users but also IT people, even developers get confused about how and what to install on a new system. I mean they think that .NET Framework 3.0 and 3.5 are decoupled from .NET Framework 2.0 and they download the installers for...
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.NET got brand new logo, I kind liked the old one more… anyway… http://blogs.msdn.com/msmossyblog/archive/2008/10/25/embrace-the-new-net-logo.aspx
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Hi there, my name is Fernando Hualpa, known as Fernik on the blogsphere. Before introducing myself I would like to thank Dennis van der Stelt for providing me this new blog for my .NET adventures in software development. I used to blog in English at http://fernik.spaces.live.com , though you may find...