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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 stored in C:\ drive (A velociraptor 10k disk) it compiles...

Posted to ExternalBlogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 31 Aug 2009
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 that shows the install phase of [...]

Posted to ExternalBlogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 28 Aug 2009
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 like to have a book in [...]

Posted to ExternalBlogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 02 Aug 2009
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 I need users feelings about this change, so I open...

Posted to ExternalBlogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 30 Jul 2009
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 and produce value of around $1.1 million. Project...

Posted to ExternalBlogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 28 Jul 2009
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 the IIS directory where the clickonce generated...

Posted to ExternalBlogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 18 Jun 2009
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 connect to the team foundation server and tried...

Posted to ExternalBlogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 15 Jun 2009
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 Products and Technologies on Windows Server”. I followed...

Posted to ExternalBlogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 12 Jun 2009
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, es: myfile_1002.txt, extracts the number [...]

Posted to ExternalBlogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11 Jun 2009
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 of “It works on my machine”. The software [.....

Posted to ExternalBlogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 29 May 2009

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