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Career development as a Software Developer without becoming a manager. by albertpascual

I’m a developer, I like to write new exciting code everyday, my perfect day at work is a day that when I wake up, I know that I have to write some code that I haven’t done before or to use a new framework/language/platform that is unknown to me. The best...

How to keep yourself interested as a developer. by albertpascual

tweetmeme_source = 'alpascual'; I can only speak for myself in this one, I have seen other people master the balancing world of development without much ado, in my case, is being a lifetime of learning the way that works for me, hopefully my few tips...
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Family green vacation in Mexico without sacrificing luxury. by albertpascual

Once a year I completely escape with my family to a place without any possible connection to the Internet or computers, well actually we take a little laptop in the small chance to get some Internet connection and of course to play the kids DVDs on the...

Great philosophy to build applications I picked up at the MVP Summit. by albertpascual

At the MVP Summit I got more than just new technology and roadmaps, many people have the philosophy of building software. I now it’s being a while since the 2009 MVP Summit, I wanted to practice the philosophy before posting it and saying that is the...
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If you a developer you must share code on your blog! by albertpascual

This is how my blog looked in 2002-2003 years when I first created using straight HTML. Back then there were a few people blogging and some still are. They’ve become quite knowledgeable of what works and what does not. I didn’t started real blogging until...

Fizzbin is Technical Support the word, pass it on! by albertpascual

An idea from Scott Hanselman We need a word that says "I know tech" when you're on the phone with tech support, you'd just say " Fizzbin " and they'd know. http://www.hanselman.com/blog/FizzBinTheTechnicalSupportSecretHandshake.aspx A great idea to avoid...
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Teaching a 5 year old snowboarding. by albertpascual

This winter, my 5 year old daughter and I got ourselves season passes for Snow Valley, near Arrowbear, CA. There aren’t many resources out there on how to teach a young kid snowboarding.  Everybody tells you to just send the kid to the professionals...

Rick Strahl’s view on the Oil is the best perspective I have seen, by albertpascual

This post has nothing to do with any geeky stuff, even if Rick Strahl’s is attached to it. He normally posts solutions for common development problems and he explains step by step a way to resolve them. Since the oil prices started claiming down, the...

Barack Obama the Internet President would be force to go offline for the next 4 to 8 years. by albertpascual

For first time a president that understands the “Internets” will come into office on January 20th, 2009. Seems like the leader of the free world should be required to be able to use email, twitter and blogging, should be a required question on the campaign...

Back from a Mexican vacation, cleaning up inboxes. by albertpascual

My apologies for all the people that didn’t know I was going in a 2 week vacation to Puerto Vallarta Mexico. I got many emails from you guys that didn’t know. I’ll be replying my emails in the order arrived. I had a total family vacation. I spent every...
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