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In-Person or online Networking?
Recently I’ve been puzzled by the following question: what is the best way to approach networking and to connect with people and companies that will help you survive in this competitive world? I’ve connected with a lot of professionals through social networks (for instance twitter and …
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What I’ve been up to
The last six month I’ve been working in 4 different projects: netDumbster: we have released version 1.2 of this .Net Fake SMTP Server so useful for unit tests and also released a nuget package wich you can find here: http://goo.gl/2FEw9 Hexa.Core: our implementation of the Domain Driven …
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MSBuild & Gallio Reports…
Recently I found this interesting article about Running Gallio tests using MSBuild: http://www.bryanavery.co.uk/post/2010/06/07/Running-Gallio-tests-using-MSBuild.aspx I currently use Hudson CI for continuos integration therefore I needed to generate Gallio reports in xml format, so I made some simple modifications, specially in how the Gallio task is called: …
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Prepare your App for Windows Azure… Create a custom Configuration Manager…
When you deploy an application to Windowes Azure, your application configuration cannot be changed cause it becomes part of the distributed package. So what can you do if you want to set some dynamic settings (i.e Connection String settings)? First of all you must use …
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SQL Azure Requires Clustered Indexes in all tables
Recently we performed some test against SQL Azure. We found that our system was throwing an exception cause SQL Azure requires a clustered index in each table (Wanna know why?). So how can you find out what tables are causing the issue? The answer is …
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Manage a Project Overseas. Part II
[Code: 3AU6YJTYGE3Q G9B5PHTC5VUX ] A while ago, I wrote about Redmine and VisualSVN Server, as the first recommendation for managing a software development project overseas. What about the quality of the applications you develop? How do you control that any change in source code won’t …
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HexaSystems & HiringBox.
HexaSystems announces that is working with HiringBox, providing them with the technology needed for their business: A service designed to help people find a job, through free, easy to use, multi-language kiosks that offers, the unemployed, quick uncomplicated access to job opportunities, discount coupons, training and social service needs. You can follow their …
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Manage a Project Overseas
Some people ask me about how we manage software development projects overseas. I first will tell you that a good version control, bug tracking and project management platform must be in place. We @HexaSystems recommend the following free tools: Source Control: VisualSVNServer Bug Tracking and …
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netDumbster another .Net Fake SMTP server based on Dumbster
Today I’ve released netDumbster (http://netdumbster.codeplex.com/) netDumbster is a .Net Fake SMTP Server clone of the popular Dumbster (http://quintanasoft.com/dumbster/) netDumbster is based on the API of nDumbster (http://ndumbster.sourceforge.net/default.html) and the nice C# Email Server (CSES) writen by Eric Daugherty. Hope it helps!!!
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NHibernate.Linq Issue when a query is executed having the same alias but with different associations paths
When running a query like the following: var query = nhib.Arms.Where(a => a.LeftHand.Thumb.Length == 1 || a.RightHand.Thumb.Length == 1); Thumb alias was always taken as part of the a.LeftHand association path, therefore leading to wrong results. I’ve worked on patch and test to fix this …