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The following are just some ’tips’ that helped me (and most of them are still helping me) in my professional career. They don’t pretend to be an exhaustive list nor absolute truths relevant to any situation and context. Also I don’t pretend to get credit as the ‘creator’ of these techniques, some (maybe most) of them could sound like just common sense for a lot of people. It is just a small compilation from mentors I was lucky to have throughout my career, articles or blog posts or even tweets that since several years ago I was particularly interested in and of course personal experience. We can maybe even don’t agree in some of them and that is fine, maybe in the comments section we can start a respectful conversation and in my case discover other points of view ...

In this short blog post I want to present a little application I made around three years ago. At that moment I was working on a small team developing a .NET full framework application and we used SonarQube to measure technical metrics. You can always explicitly navigate to the project dashboard but I wanted to have a daily summary in my inbox. The version of SonarQube that we had didn’t support that functionality so based on a previous full .NET framework application were I was playing with the SonarQube server rest API I built this little .NET Core application to get SonarQube metric email reports in my inbox ...

Continuing with the series of old MS Windows stories I found a shell script that I used as a base for several scripts mainly to automatize CI/CD tasks This script was made from reviewing other coworkers scripts and example scripts from the Internet echo off SETLOCAL @REM ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- @REM @REM author: [email] @REM @REM ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- echo. echo ========================================================= echo [script_name]] echo ========================================================= echo. @REM set local variables set start_time=%time% @REM ------------------------------------------------ @REM Shorten the command prompt for making the output @REM easier to read. @REM ------------------------------------------------ set savedPrompt=%prompt% set prompt=$$$g$s rem do stuff pushd %CD% @if %ERRORLEVEL% NEQ 0 GOTO Error echo process successfully finished. GOTO End :Error echo an error has ocurred. :End echo start time: %start_time% echo end time: %time% pause :finish popd set prompt=%savedPrompt% ENDLOCAL echo on As an example here is a poor man’s way to generate a daily metric report from a Silverlight report application (that old) ...

I was reviewing several old directories and I found different Windows recipes and scripts that I used often some time ago Basically the following are the steps to create a Windows booteable disk from command line What you will need: a flash drive (back in my time with 4GB was more than enough but I can see that current Windows 10 ISO is almost 6GB) and a Windows ISO file ...

Back in 2008 I was a fulltime senior .NET developer. .NET Framework 3.5 was recently released, Visual Studio 2008, TFS 2008, SQL Server 2008, Silverlight, Windows Vista.. I was fully commited to .NET and all Microsoft related technologies and products Also by that time I was able to bought my first laptop. My choice was a HP Pavilion TX which ended being more beautiful than powerfull but it was mine to try and investigate new technologies ...

Back in 2015 I was in United States on vacations an decided to bought a Raspberry Pi Canakit. The latest model at that moment was 2 B and the possibilities were infite: learn bash, play movies in a non-smart TV, remote play music, task automation The reality was a little different. It ended mostly resting in a drawer of my desk until I decided to sell it in 2017.. Maybe lots of you share a similar story ...

Ten years ago, well, in fact I’m talking about 2008 so this should had be written last year. In 2008, I was in the second year working for a small company in Buenos Aires. It was my first professional full .NET job. My daily work involved Visual Studio for coding, Team Foundation Server as source control and issue tracker and deploying applications in a semi automatic way, sometimes involving remote desktop a server to troubleshoot a problem. All over Microsoft Windows platform. ...

Several years ago I used to have have three removable drives in use. Two external disks for information backup, three replicas (inspired in MongoDB replication schema) and one flash drive for quick information sharing. At that time I decided that it would be a good idea to name them with some fancy names. After a quick thinking (and as a Diablo 2 fan) there was no other option than the three unique Necromancer shrunken head items: ...

Something that I quickly realized and definitely love from my profession (I’m a System Engineer) is how easy and cheap is for us to create compared to other disciplines. I’m not talking about big commercial systems, if you want to build the next GitHub you won’t probably go far without some level of real money investment. I’m talking about create something, just because you are learning, trying a technology or building something to address a specific problem. At the very basics you only need a computer, the tools, time and focus. ...

In this post I will describe different parts of a .NET full framework solution. This is the result of years reviewing and incorporating ideas from other people and adding my own experience and criteria. The solution was part of an exercise proposed in a technical interview. This is not intended to be an example from the code perspective itself. The solution proposed at that time constraint exercise was very basic (and is almost untouched). It just intend to be an example of a potential structure, process and use of tools. ...