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Archive for January, 2006

Suse, a notable distro

Saturday, January 28th, 2006

When my girlfriend bought a new computer I thought about giving a try to Suse 10 – many had suggested it to me. So, as her name is Susan… Suse it’s a nice match One of the main reasons I has willing to try Suse is because of its nice integration with Mono and related […]


Mono and Perfomance testing

Tuesday, January 24th, 2006

I’ve read Miguel’s post about how a few ‘details’ can impact Mono’s performance, and of course, following some mailing list discussions about small portions of code beeing changed (System.IO and StringBuilder come to mind) which should impact the perfomance as well. So, I noticed that we have a TDD (Test Driven Development) project but we […]


Microsoft Max

Monday, January 23rd, 2006

Windows Vista and WinFX is on his way, but taking too long. Meanwhile it seems like Redmond guys are trying to tell their fans they are still alive and trying to convince us that the delay is worth. Microsoft Max is not one more Microsoft product: «Microsoft® Codename Max is not like any other product. […]


Gulp, the Google Drink

Sunday, January 22nd, 2006

Maybe you already know it… «designed to maximize your surfing efficiency by making you more intelligent, and less thirsty.» «a DNA scanner embedded in the lip of your bottle reading all 3 gigabytes of your base pair genetic data in a fraction of a second, fine-tuning your individual hormonal cocktail in real time using our […]


UFO… am I missing something?

Saturday, January 21st, 2006

UFO’s can have ET’s… or not. But, if the UFO uses something to protect himself and even stealth… it has ET’s then. Am I missing something? Check the articles: NewsIndia I | NewsIndia II | NewsIndia III | NewsIndia IV Are this guys for real or do they need to upgrade their brains?


Some screenshots and a video of my current project

Friday, January 20th, 2006

So, I’m working on a project called Nirvana ePortal, the objective is something like a site designer with some high-level concepts.

The current piece of work is the page designer that is done using ASP.Net, Ajax and Javascript. It is working in IE and Firefox, so, it is build using the standarts and a few IE-specific hacks.


Adventures with Ajax and ASP.Net

Thursday, January 19th, 2006

Due to my new job, where I’m developing a web based ASP.Net WYSIWYG editor, I’ve been playing with several Ajax components available in the jungle out there. Until now, I found two with merit, and I’ll be using both at same time because I found that they complete each other. The point is that there […]


Back to blogging

Tuesday, January 17th, 2006

After a while of beeing without hosting (I tried a few) I decided to get a a cheap VPS (Virtual Private Server) and register a domain. I must say it has been a very pleasant experience, I’ve root access and can install anything in there, even Mono! Of course I’ll give it a try but […]