Since the year started I’ve been working hard with Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) with Git as source control. IÂ was getting tired of entering my git credentials on each clone, pull or push, on Windows or Mac OS X, Â so…
Do IT Certifications help?
Recently I’ve been discussing with my friends and coworkers the importance of IT Certifications, which lead us to ask if in today’s highly competitive world, certifications really help Software Developers improve skills or even find their dream job or the…
Private Nuget Server responds with (405) Method Not Allowed while pushing or deleting a package
So you’ve deployed your own private NuGet server to IIS but you get this annoying exception trying to push packages: (405) Method Not Allowed Well as stated in many web pages removing WebDAVModule does fix the issue, but be sure…
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…
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…
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…
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…
NHibernate.Linq Issue when a query is executed having the same alias but with different associations paths
When running a query like the following: 1 var query = nhib.Arms.Where(a =>; a.LeftHand.Thumb.Length == 1 || a.RightHand.Thumb.Length == 1);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…
Running Apache behind an IIS server. .Net Solution
Yesterday I had the challenge to redirect – rewrite an url from my public IIS7 server to an internal Apache server. For instance a request to http://www.mysite.com/app handled by IIS should be redirected (using a reverse proxy) to ; http://127.0.0.1:8080/app…
Rhino Mocks Method ‘YYY’ requires a return value or an exception to throw.
Yesterday I found myself stucked with a strange exception while programming a unit test using Rhino Mocks. Supose you have an interface like the following one. 1 2 3 4 public interface ITest { object Freak();}public interface ITest { object…