November 2008
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Improving you visual studio experience
The mouse if cool, but it is not the user interface that an advance user should use, at least that is my opinion anyway. If you really want to rock your programming experience in your IDE you need to use the keyboard.
Because I have recently being using VS a lot I though I should let people know some cool shortcuts I use:
Navigate to definition
You can press F12 to go to the declaration of the...
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On XLT and javascript
The contest
First of all let me give you the contest of the problem:
On one hand at work we currently are using a content managements system written in Java (whose name I’m not going give) that generates xhtml using far to many XSL transformations. On the other hand we have a .Net application that makes those xhtml pages work with existing .Net applications.
From my point of view the...
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New style
I decided two days ago to change the style of the tumblr. The style right now is usuable but I do not think is yet finished. Currently it is usable an and is as the French would say “comsi comsa”. I yet have to:
Make sure images and object ar centered in the posts.
Make a better top menu.
Make a better footer.
Fix the problem with the about box.
Choose a bettern...
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“Used Bluetooth headset during conference call today. Was informed later that it...”
– CobraCommander
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About time
I have been working with a 64 bit machine running OpenSuse for a while. And I have been surfing the net using a x86 browser to be able to visit all those lame pages that use flash. But finally after reading this post I found out that the there is a 64 bit flash player for Linux, hurray!!!!!!!
You can find it here.
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Maths joke
An infinite number of mathematicians walks into a bar. The first one orders a beer. The second one orders half a beer. The third one orders quarter of a beer. It continues that way until the bartender interrupts and says: “You guys are all a bunch of idiots” and pours two beers.
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Amsterdam
Two weeks ago a good friend of Bea and I was coming to Amsterdam so we decided to go and visit her. We though that Amsterdam was closer that it really is, around 250 km, took the car and went. It was a really nice day, we visited the city center, the red district and Heineken brewery which was aw… wait for it some (yes, I love How I met your mother).
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Amsterdam overall...
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Faking named parameters in PHP
marco:
Here’s a short technique for faking Ruby’s cool named-parameter ability. It’s useful when you have a function that takes a lot of optional arguments, and you occasionally want to specify a few of the middle values without specifying all of the preceding values (or knowing how many there are). It also helps code readability if you’re willing to make the slight performance sacrifice — and...
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The project is going slow but is still on its way. I’m happy to say that I expect to have all the data connections tested by this Friday if not earlier. This means that I’ll be able to focus my…
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WatchI really want to play this game, but I’m waiting until the Linux version is out :).
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Bank holiday = more sight seeing
Today is a bank holiday in most of the countries that took part in the world war, since we do not have much to do yet in Brussels, Bea and I decided to visit the Atumium. As usual it took me several minutes to take a good picture of the place:
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FOSDEM 2009
I’ve just decided that I’m going to FOSDEM 2009. The easiest way to describe the event is to simple copy paste from their page:
FOSDEM is probably the most developer-oriented Free and Opensource conference, taking place in Brussels, Belgium on Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 February 2009. Apart from having many invited speakers, the conference offers developer rooms, stands and lightning...
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First weekend in Brussels
This is my first weekend in Brussels!!!! I truly truly needed the weekend. This has been the first week after 7 years ( the number of years I have been a student at Uni) that I have woke up every day before 6:30 and that I have worked 8 hours per day. We decided to go around and take some picts :)
If you want to see al the picts I’ve taken, either you can view then through this...
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First day at work
Today was my first day at work and I’ve got to say, I am the geek. I am the only one in the group that uses Linux, the only one who talks about algorithms, VM improvements, using Java within .Net etc…
I’ve got to say that I love it, every time I start speaking and I use an acronym my manager says: “I’m lost again”. I am sure he knows far more than I do about...
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U.K. last supper
I left the U.K. 48 hours ago and Bea decided to take a picture of our last supper:
Those green things between the cod and the chips are mussy peas, or at least they should be…