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Technical careers scholarships
The Argentine goverment is implementing a scholarship program called Becas Bicentenario with the aim of promoting the study of technical carrers. During the ’90 the Argentine industry suffer a lot, many factories closed. At the same time young people prefered to study humanist carrers. After the 2001 crisis, local industries start to expand again -and… — read more
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Team Puzzle
Today I went to the presentation of the final project of my friends Carolina and Marcio. Their project consist in a management tool to support the development of software projects. It is called Team Puzzle and has been publish here -at Sourceforge. It has some similar features to Team Foundation Server, but it is built… — read more
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Something is changing…
Over the last two years some interesting things have happened in the .net community, among these things I would like to highlight the followings: Greater interest in Domain Driven Design in contrast to the traditional MSDN Data driven way. This has stimulated the adoption of certain design techniques like DI and AOP among other. As… — read more
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Playing with PHP on .NET
During the last couple of weeks some colleague have been working with PHP. Yesterday while I was reading some blogs I remember that there was a PHP implementation over the .NET framework called Phalanger. I have some free time so I decided to test it. I started by googling for the project website to download… — read more
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SmallTalks 2008
Last Thursday, Friday and Saturday, it took place the Second Argentine Conference of Smalltalk: SmallTalks 2008. One of most interesting tracks I attended was the one given by Mariano Martinez Peck, Esteban Lorenzano and German Palacios about their project: SqueakDBX. It is a driver to allow Squeak applications to connect to relational databases, you can… — read more
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Web Services and DataSets, a bad mix (ws-part 3)
If you are not familiar with the .Net Platform, DataSets are objects analogous to a database in memory. A DataSet contains not only a collection of DataTables, but also information about the primary keys and relations between the tables it contains. I ‘ve seen some people using DataSets to move data between the different layers… — read more
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New open source project
Yesterday I started a new open source project. It is a framework for developing video games with Java, using the MVC design pattern. My intention with this project is to help Algo3 students to develop their applications concentrating in the Model while the framework takes care of most of the complexities of the View and… — read more
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After Agiles 2008
These are some articles and posts about the conference http://blog.salias.com.ar/2008/10/agiles-2008-la-emocin-de-que-las-cosas.html http://softwareagil.blogspot.com/2008/10/agiles-2008-done.html http://www.canal-ar.com.ar/noticias/noticiamuestra.asp?Id=6564 http://www.buenosaires.gov.ar/noticias/?modulo=ver&item_id=18644&contenido_id=29235&idioma=es Enjoy it! — read more
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Self-organized people
As you may know, I ‘m teacher assistant at FIUBA. some weeks ago we asked the students to form groups. According to the number of students and teachers, we needed 6 groups of 8 members each. But…the students presented 7 groups, 3 of them with 8 members each, and other 4 groups of 6 members… — read more
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Agiles 2008 done!
After a long planning we did it. We are very pleased with the results;more than 400 people attended the conference coming from several countries like Brasil, Chile, Honduras, Costa Rica, Peru, Bolivia, Uruguay, Colombia and Argentina; the quality of the presentations was excellent and all the schedule was followed during the whole conference. I want… — read more