Sergio Pereira

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• Cruise and Agile discussed - videos forthcoming

  Update: The videos of the presentation and discussion have been posted. This month's Chicago ALT.NET meeting was pretty awesome and it was all caught in video. As soon as I have some time to do some post-production on the raw material (read, just... Posted Aug 15 2008, 09:05 AM by sergiopereira with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: .NET, Tools, Development, Automation, alt.net, review, Community

• Excel is the business format, automate it

  One thing I realized when working in large companies is that Excel is the true data exchange file format. That what the business types exchange among themselves and how they like to persist any kind of lists or anything that needs to be formatted like... Posted Jun 09 2008, 10:35 PM by sergiopereira with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: Ruby, Tips & Tricks, Automation

• Unescape my Strings

  Since I started using Visual Studio 2005 and now 2008 it bugs me that strings in the debug windows (Immediate, Watch, Locals, Autos, etc) are automatically escaped in C# syntax (well, at least in C# projects.) Let's assume we are writing some code... Posted May 07 2008, 12:47 PM by sergiopereira with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: .NET, Tips & Tricks, Automation

• XHTML Validation Script using Ruby

  In one of the projects I'm working on we produce a number of XHTML documents and we want these documents to be valid XHTML 1.0 Strict. As an example of how automation will set you free , I promptly thought that there was no way I would be submitting... Posted Apr 02 2008, 09:31 PM by sergiopereira with | with no comments Filed under: Ruby, Automation