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• Speedup Visual Studio with faster disk

  We always know that to speedup visual studio a fast disk is quite always a good choice, but what is best configuration? I’ve done some little benchmark on the compilation of a project with a msbuild script and here is the result. When all sources are... Posted Aug 31 2009, 05:16 AM by Alkampfer's Place Filed under: General, Experiences

• Power of virtualization

  I really do not remember when was the first time I heard of VmWare,  I clearly remember that at those time I used both windows and Linux, and one day a friend of mine sent me a mail with an image showing Windows Maker desktop, with a windows inside... Posted Aug 28 2009, 07:53 AM by Alkampfer's Place Filed under: Experiences

• Good paper come back to use

  I’ve just read another good post of Jeff Atwood, that speak about PaperBack. I must admit that in 2009 it seems an oddity to claim for backup on paper, but it is an interesting and viable option to backup data. I must admit that I really love books, I... Posted Aug 02 2009, 04:35 AM by Alkampfer's Place Filed under: Experiences, Backup

• Balsamiq mockup to the rescue

  Today I have to add some features to a wpf application and the interface was already quite cluttered with controls. Things are becoming messy, so I decided that I need to spent a little time restructuring the UI. I decided to use collapsible panels, but... Posted Jul 30 2009, 10:47 AM by Alkampfer's Place Filed under: Experiences, Balsamiq Mockup

• Thoughts on software engineering

  I was reading this post of Jeff Atwood that link this interesting article. One of the key point in the article was to consider two different kind of projects Project  A  will  eventually  cost  about  a  million dollars... Posted Jul 28 2009, 12:52 AM by Alkampfer's Place Filed under: Experiences, Programming, Software Engineering

• Publish a project with ClickOnce via NANT and CC.Net

  I have a project that needs to be published automatically through IIS directory, clickonce and CC.net machine. The easiest way to make this happens is to follow these simple instructions. First of all goes into the machine where the CC.Net runs, prepare... Posted Jun 18 2009, 06:47 AM by Alkampfer's Place Filed under: .NET framework, Experiences

• Cannot create project in a newly installed TFS

  I’ve just installed Tfs For Workgroup in a small virtual machine to make some experiments. After setting up the machine (Windows 2008) I installed TFS SErvice pack 1 then tfs power toys and finally I opened up visual studio in my desktop machine. I simply... Posted Jun 15 2009, 10:27 AM by Alkampfer's Place Filed under: .NET framework, Experiences

• Error: the specified windows sharepoint services site url is not the default site collection site

  I’m installing Tfs 2008 on a Virtual machine. Following the guide I saw that I need first to install Share Point Services 3.0 SP2 before installing team foundation server. You can find those part in the guide with the title “How to: Install SharePoint... Posted Jun 12 2009, 03:50 PM by Alkampfer's Place Filed under: Experiences

• Do not forget Array

  I wrote a stupid util that does this operation: it scans a folder with 500.000 + files (in various subfolder), all files have name that contains an integer that is an id of a row in a database. I need to find orphan files, so I simply take file name,... Posted Jun 11 2009, 07:01 AM by Alkampfer's Place Filed under: .NET framework, Experiences

• Going in production as often as you can

  I really care the concept of “going in production”, because it is the moment when the software bring to life. Going in production can be sometimes a really difficult thing to do, and there are a lot of reasons behind it. First of all we have the syndrome... Posted May 29 2009, 03:22 AM by Alkampfer's Place Filed under: Experiences

• Occam’s Razor, probably is the better principle to keep in mind

  This morning I completely wasted 2 hours of my life, here is the history. I’m rewriting some nant script for a series of articles in italian language, this morning I did some modification to the base script, and I applied this new base script to a solution... Posted May 23 2009, 03:06 AM by Alkampfer's Place Filed under: Experiences

• What university misses to taught

  Some time ago I had a discussion with a younger friend that goes to university. The argument of the discussion is “what university misses to taught”, this question arise because a lot of persons that comes out of university are not immediately productive... Posted May 16 2009, 04:20 AM by Alkampfer's Place Filed under: Experiences

• Good programmers put code in production

  Some days ago I did a post that generates a lot of comments, it is called Java Versus .Net Programmers, and it made me think that there are a lot of ideas out of there on “what are the characteristics that makes a good programmer” Most of the time I hear... Posted May 09 2009, 04:08 AM by Alkampfer's Place Filed under: Experiences

• Web site VS Web application in .Net

  I had a big project that contains a big site written in asp.net webform and Visual Basic language. This site was created as “web site”, and when it became really big, it start being really really slooowwww.. To give some number, in my machine I usually... Posted May 04 2009, 02:20 AM by Alkampfer's Place Filed under: Experiences

• Faster invoke method of unknown objects with Expression tree part2

  In the last post I described a technique that uses Expression Tree to invoke dynamically methods of objects of types unknown at compile time. You can use this technique to build the ExpressionTreeReflection class. You can now write code like this private... Posted Oct 06 2008, 09:51 AM by Alkampfer's Place Filed under: .NET framework, LINQ, Experiences