February 2007 - Posts

The Quality Code Handbook
Found this cool e-book about writing quality code with Visual Studio Team System. It's written by a group of Australian developers and it's worth a look. It talks about test-driven development, performance-tuning, application threat modeling, code analysis, Read More...
Posted 27 February 07 07:05 by hgr | 0 Comments   
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GASP ArchCamp2007 Online #3
The Design Lab was a success. I had a great time playing the role of the region president's (technical) assistant. Off course we could have done it even better and sure there are things to improve in future iterations. The networking between members was Read More...
Posted 26 February 07 01:10 by hgr | 0 Comments   
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GASP ArchCamp2007 Online #2
Tiago Pascoal and I just presented the Design Lab for this year’s ArchCamp. The challenge is about a new organization of the state, based on a recently approved regionalization. It talks about competition between municipalities, systems integration, eliminating Read More...
Posted 24 February 07 05:00 by hgr | 0 Comments   
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GASP ArchCamp2007 Online #1
The ArchCamp2007 has started! Check-out our great tent: The president is addressing the crowd: More news when the Design Lab starts. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Read More...
Posted 24 February 07 10:58 by hgr | 0 Comments   
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Ideas on the Service Factory
As I mentioned earlier, I’ve been working with Web Service Software Factory for a few days now. The main goal was to develop a proof-of-concept consisting of a simple smart-client Windows app that implements a few use cases concerning the classic “order Read More...
Posted 21 February 07 12:24 by hgr | 0 Comments   
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Service Factory Obscurities
I am a big fan of WCF. So when I heard that the Web Service Software Factory was available for WCF, I though “got to try this”. The good news is that I finally got the chance. The bad news is that it’s not so easy to get things running fast. Vista strikes Read More...
Posted 13 February 07 07:58 by hgr | 0 Comments   
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Celebrating V7
We had a great time celebrating the V7 launch yesterday at RDD. This picture is not that good (taken with my mobile) but the poster behind my desk is really cool. If you can’t read it, the poster says: “From the producers of V6… V7 the Super Release” Read More...
Posted 06 February 07 12:32 by hgr | 2 Comments   
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V7 RTM is out the door!
This is something that we all have been waiting for. After 18 months of development, the product is finally done! Here’s the proof: You can only imagine how happy we are and how this will be celebrated! More info here (in Portuguese). Share this post: Read More...
Posted 02 February 07 06:51 by hgr | 0 Comments   
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WPF Applications
I’ve been thinking of WPF these past few days. Tim Sneath is doing a series of posts highlighting a number of applications designed with WPF. It’s worth the time: http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/tags/portfolio/default.aspx Share this post: email it! Read More...
Posted 01 February 07 12:00 by hgr | 0 Comments   
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