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Speedup Visual Studio with faster disk

Alkampfer's Place — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 05:16:25 GMT

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...(read more)

Power of virtualization

Alkampfer's Place — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 07:53:44 GMT

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...(read more)

Good paper come back to use

Alkampfer's Place — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 04:35:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Balsamiq mockup to the rescue

Alkampfer's Place — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:47:23 GMT

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...(read more)

Thoughts on software engineering

Alkampfer's Place — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:52:55 GMT

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...(read more)

Publish a project with ClickOnce via NANT and CC.Net

Alkampfer's Place — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 06:47:18 GMT

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...(read more)

Cannot create project in a newly installed TFS

Alkampfer's Place — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:27:20 GMT

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...(read more)

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

Alkampfer's Place — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:50:30 GMT

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...(read more)

Do not forget Array

Alkampfer's Place — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 07:01:15 GMT

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,...(read more)

Going in production as often as you can

Alkampfer's Place — Fri, 29 May 2009 03:22:16 GMT

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...(read more)

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

Alkampfer's Place — Sat, 23 May 2009 03:06:10 GMT

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...(read more)

What university misses to taught

Alkampfer's Place — Sat, 16 May 2009 04:20:09 GMT

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...(read more)

Good programmers put code in production

Alkampfer's Place — Sat, 09 May 2009 04:08:42 GMT

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...(read more)

Web site VS Web application in .Net

Alkampfer's Place — Mon, 04 May 2009 02:20:26 GMT

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...(read more)

Faster invoke method of unknown objects with Expression tree part2

Alkampfer's Place — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:51:16 GMT

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...(read more)