December 2008 - Posts

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Sample .NET map viewer source code released by albertpascual

ESRI released a sample of a complete .NET map viewer on their code gallery. Info below Description from the Code Gallery The Example .NET Viewer is a web mapping application build on the 9.3 SP1 ArcGIS Server .NET Application Developer Framework. The...
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Collecting Twitter stats using a Twitter Bot by albertpascual

I have been playing with the Bot to get some information out of Twitter, the main problem the restriction of 100 requests per hour, means that could take a few hours to get the information of a user with lots of followers. I used Robert Scoble and Scott...
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Wii games for young kids 2008. by albertpascual

I have received lots of emails about an updated list for games for young children from people reading my 2007 list of games for kids for the Wii. The Nintendo Wii, as if you are the owner of one, is the perfect game console for kids, easy to use and keeps...
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How to make a post request to Twitter in C# to add people to follow by albertpascual

Ok many developer problems can be avoid by reading all the documentation, yet, I normally try to jump into writing code as soon as I can, and figure it out by myself. This method got me in a lot of trouble and made me waste my time as well. Twitter is...
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Vote NO on the crossdomain.xml file, use the cloud to bypass errors. by albertpascual

You have been using Silverlight for a while and by now you figure it out that to communicate outside your domain you need the crossdomain.xml file on the root directory of the domain you want to talk to, otherwise if Silverlight does not read that file...
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Having problems with Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio CTP, do you want a invitation for Azure? by albertpascual

This weekend I thought to play with Azure a little bit more, I had previously a good experience using Visual Studio 2008 Azure SDK and Tools , yet this weekend my VS2008 couldn’t open my previously create project as well a chain or error started firing...
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Is this time of the year? My favorite blogs for 2008. by albertpascual

Every year around October I post the best blogs and I compare what did it change in my life and what I was doing.Did I improve in my taste? I am in the opinion that the blogs you read, is what you are trying to accomplish. The are reasons why you read...
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The cloud for a fast deployment of proof of concepts by albertpascual

This last week, I have been concentrating my free time in Azure. I found the cloud will provide developers in a common deployment story where all apps should go. Moving from a normal ftp and app to have to use a complete SDK is a mindset that shouldn...
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Improve the performance of your ASP.NET application with Silverlight 2.0 by albertpascual

Silverlight 2.0 Release just came out and developers are creating great flashy websites using this great plug-in technology. Yet there isn’t much about how Silverlight would provide a architecture to improve performance by using the clients CPU instead...
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Guy Kawasaki reveals great ideas yet is against twitter! by albertpascual

A fantastic Guy Kawasaki interview by Robert Scoble to promote his new book Reality Check: the Irrreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition . A must have for anybody in technology that wants to spend $19 in a book....
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