Gabo's blog
wax on, wax off for .net developers
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Office Seat Map webpart
In our efforts to make the most of our intranet, and the SharePoint intranets projects we deliver, I'm developing a Silverlight based, Office Map webpart. I like to think of it as a Google Maps, or Virtual Earth, for the enterprise cubicles.
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Silverlight 2 Beta 2 is out there, but hold on...
As Scott Guthrie posted, there's a new release available of Silverlight 2, it's beta version 2 now this time, and we are getting closer to the release.I've upgraded to the new version, and here's a quick review of the pros and cons,
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The state of the art in code quality metrics
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SOA Governance
SOA Governance, a term that's taking off but's not always easy to pick up. Here's a good article from IBM that introduces it, explaining what would happen if there is no SOA Governance in the enterprise.
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How to develop a casual game with Silverlight 2
Game programming was my first love in computer science, and a couple of weeks ago I decided to give it a try with the new Silverlight 2 version available. To my surprise I could accomplish something fun with little effort, and maybe there's someone out there trying to do stuff like this, so let's go through the basics of building a casual game with silverlight 2. Our target will be to develop a mutant version of the old breakout classic. We are going to animate a paddle to prevent a ball from touching the ground while breaking bricks on top of each screen.
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RAF 08 is over
We spent two days in the Sheraton Pilar hotel in Buenos Aires, in the Regional Architect Forum 2008, a once in a year event that gathers "architects" from argentina, bolivia, chile, and uruguay(at least the raf south cone version does). It was my first RAF, and I was very impressed, not only by the level of the presentations, but by the networking we could do in such a short time, exchanging ideas with some of the most experienced .net guys of the region.