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If you’re reading here, it means that you, like me, eventually asked yourselves which is the best and safest baby carrier of all. If you’re lucky you’re thinking about it in advance and you still didn’t buy any. If you didn’t think in advance, maybe you bought one and you […]

The best baby carrier

If you are programming an Android app and you’re allowing your users to select an image from gallery you will soon discover that as the screen rotates the image disappears! Gosh! What’s happening?! Let’s go a step back. So far you should know that activities have a specific lifecycle. Each […]

How to retain image in Android when screen rotation occurs

Hello everyone, today I will share my experience about creating a Git repository for a new Android Studio project. This post dates back to 2016 and is migrated from an older blog. My goal is to allow a fellow developer to checkout (Clone in Git words) the project from server […]

Quickly setup Android Studio with Git and Bitbucket

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This post dates back to 2013 and it is ported from my old blog. I recently installed IIS Express on my machine. I found it useful and I developed a GUI for it that you can find here on GitHub: The most surprising feature of IIS Express, in my opinion, […]

IIS Express GUI and Visual Studio 2010 integration

This post dates back to 2013 and it is migrated from my old blog. The argument of this post can be relevant to people using Subversion and willing to give a try to Git. In this article I will try to give a quick way to get started with Git […]

Setting up Git With Visual Studio Tutorial

This post dates back to 2013 and is migrated from my old blog. The argument of this post is relevant to people using Entity Framework and needing to filter data coming from a Database with a list of in-memory data. In this article I will try to start summarizing what […]

Entity Framework: Joining in memory data with DbSet

This post dates back to 2013 and it is migrated from my old blog. In this article I will show you that, when importing data with Entity Framework, you will almost always have performance issues unless you disable AutoDetectChanges. When creating an application to be scheduled on a timely basis […]

Entity Framework Code First: Always disable AutoDetectChanges when importing data

This post dates back to 2012 and it is migrated from my old blog. In this article I will show you that when using Queryable.Sum with Entity Framework and Linq to Entities to sum up a list of decimal values (or other value type) like in the following snippet you […]

Linq To Entities: Queryable.Sum returns Null on an empty list

This post dates back to 2012 and is migrated from my old blog. In this article I will show you that let clauses inside Linq queries are not a simple matter of readability of the query, when it comes to using Entity Framework and the Linq to Entities provider. In […]

Optimize Linq To Entities queries using let clauses

This post is an old one written back in 2012 and migrated from my old blog. In this article I will try to explain how to enable and use Entity Framework’s Code First Migrations in a real project (i.e.: a solution with many projects, a database server, etc). The Target […]

Entity Framework 5 Code First: Enabling Migrations in a Real …

1. Why AutoComplete.Net? 2. Download 3. Asp.Net Documentation 3.1. AutoCompleteTextBox 3.2. Tutorial 4. Asp.Net MVC Documentation 4.1. Extension Methods 4.2. Tutorial 1. Why AutoComplete.Net? In this article I will introduce my GitHub project: AutoComplete.Net. Such project is made up of a library containing an Asp.Net WebControl and a bunch of […]

AutoComplete.Net

1. Introduction 2. Description 2.1. Implementation 2.2. Strongly Typed Extension Methods 3. Full Code 3.1. PanelExtensions 3.2. MvcPanel 3.3. TestView 3.4. StronglyTypedView 3.5. ViewModel 3.6. Controller 1. Introduction This is the porting of an old post I originally wrote in 2010 in my old blog. In this article I will […]

ASP.NET MVC: Panel HtmlHelper extension methods with using syntax

This post is an old one migrated from my early years blog: In this post I list the new line character for batch scripts, Makefile files and VBScript scripts. A while ago I spent a lot of time for finding information about which character was the line continuation character in […]

Line Continuation Character

1. Tasks Block 2. MsBuild Task 2.1. MSBuild and ReferencePath – CruiseControl.NET not resolving reference to Nunit 2.2. An Alternative MSBuild Logger – Christian Rodemeyer’s MsBuildToCCNet 2.3. CruiseControl.NET Webdashboard fails in finding images if not installed in virtual directory 2.4. MSBuildToCCNET reports wrong number of compiled projects 2.5. CruiseControl.NET, MsBuild […]

CruiseControl.Net Tutorial – Part 2

Hopefully you’ve been attracted by the title of this post and you are wondering how can Scrum be related to the vaccines quarrel. Actually they both are related to how we tend to behave as human beings of the information era. About the Vaccines Quarrel Why am I talking about […]

Scrum and no-vaccines or how to survive the fear of …

1. Introduction 2. Resources 3. Prerequisites – Install Software 4. Setup a Subversion Repository with the Help of TortoiseSVN 4.1. Create a Repository 4.2. Set a Security Policy 4.3. Run Subversion Server Process 5. Checkout a Working Copy 6. Add content and Commit 6.1. Add a Text File to Versioning […]

Guide to Versioning a Visual Studio Solution with Subversion, TortoiseSVN …

<br /> You need to read this book though it is not a life changer. Dale Carnegie wrote it back in the ’30s of last century and you can feel it in the way it is written and from the assumptions about roles in society. The book is written as […]

Dale Carnegie defines influence in everyday’s life

1. Prerequisites 2. Introduction – SolutionInfo.cs 3. Introduction – Partitioned single solution 4. Partitioned single solution and SolutionInfo.cs – The problem 5. Partitioned single solution and SolutionInfo.cs – The Solution 6. Subversion Issue 695 and Release 1.5 7. Notes 7.1. Add a file as link 7.2. Set Build Action to […]

SolutionInfo and Partitioned Single Solution

Great book providing the ultimate receipt for effective Product Ownership. The author, Gojco Adzitc, illustrates us how to identify the desired actions related to our product. Impact mapping is about visual management and about helping people to focus on the first things first. What an impact map is – from […]

Prioritize Correctly with Impact Mapping – Review and Mindmap

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