Sergio Pereira

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• One less diacritical mark to annoy me

  Being a Portuguese-speaking person living in the US, one of the things you have to get used to is the keyboard physical layout and key mappings. You know, Latin-originated languages tend to have thôse wéìrd chãraçtërs , which... Posted Dec 26 2008, 12:57 PM by sergiopereira with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Tools, Development, Tips & Tricks

• IE8 Readiness and IETester

  Today I started researching and preparing my application for IE-8, or at least knowing what we would need to take care of before its release sometime next year. I started by downloading the VPC image with IE8 beta 2 because it seemed much more convenient... Posted Dec 15 2008, 05:18 PM by sergiopereira with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: Tools, Development

• Created with Community Server

  Don't you hate when tools try to promote themselves in your work, especially if you paid for them? Last night I was noavigatin around in Reflector when I stoped by the embedded resource named System.Data.Odbc.OdbcMetaData.xml (in System.Data.dll 2... Posted Sep 25 2008, 07:33 AM by sergiopereira with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: .NET, Tools, Development

• Video - ORM Discussion/Fishbowl

  After the IoC talk we had the monthly discussion. This time we tried the fishbowl format (or some approximation of that). The topic was ORMs. Posted Sep 23 2008, 12:11 PM by sergiopereira with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: .NET, Tools, Development, alt.net, Video, Community

• Video - IoC with StructureMap

  I finally got some time to import and upload the videos of September's Chicago ALT.NET meeting that happened almost 2 weeks ago. In this first video jdn shows how DI and IoC containers can be used to add flexibility to an application design. Posted Sep 23 2008, 06:47 AM by sergiopereira with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: .NET, Tools, Development, alt.net, Video, Community

• Video - Aug 08 discussions at Chicago ALT.NET

  The second half of the meeting was an open discussion that revolved around practices of Agile teams. There's also an entertaining rant by I'm-still-Brad in the middle. Posted Aug 20 2008, 10:58 AM by sergiopereira with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: .NET, Tools, Development, alt.net, Video, Community

• Video - ThoughtWorks Cruise at Chicago ALT.NET

  This video was captured at the Chicago ALT.NET August 13th meeting . This first video is the Cruise presentation. Posted Aug 20 2008, 10:34 AM by sergiopereira with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: .NET, Tools, Development, alt.net, Video, Community

• 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

• Software I can't work without

  I'm about to configure a new development machine this week. It's going to be my 3rd install from scratch in the last 12 months, which I know is not all that much, but certainly more than I wish I had to. Besides the common software development... Posted Jul 31 2008, 05:07 AM by sergiopereira with | with 38 comment(s) Filed under: .NET, Tools, Development, Tips & Tricks

• Automation FTW

  One of the things I often discuss with other developers is how little (on average) we automate our work-related tasks. Think about this. We make our living automating our users' activities: We write applications to replace manual processes. Our programs... Posted Mar 27 2008, 08:12 PM by sergiopereira with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Tools, Development, featured