alkampfer on August 31st, 2009

We always know that to speedup visual studio a fast disk is quite always a good choice, but what is best configuration?
I’ve done some little benchmark on the compilation of a project with a msbuild script and here is the result.
When all sources are stored in C:\ drive (A velociraptor 10k disk) it compiles in [...]



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alkampfer on August 28th, 2009

I really do not remember when was the first time I heard of VmWare,  I clearly remember that at those time I used both windows and Linux, and one day a friend of mine sent me a mail with an image showing Windows Maker desktop, with a windows inside that shows the install phase of [...]



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alkampfer on August 2nd, 2009

I’ve just read another good post of Jeff Atwood, that speak about PaperBack. I must admit that in 2009 it seems an oddity to claim for backup on paper, but it is an interesting and viable option to backup data. I must admit that I really love books, I like to have a book in [...]



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alkampfer on July 30th, 2009

Today I have to add some features to a wpf application and the interface was already quite cluttered with controls. Things are becoming messy, so I decided that I need to spent a little time restructuring the UI. I decided to use collapsible panels, but I need users feelings about this change, so I open [...]



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alkampfer on July 28th, 2009

I was reading this post of Jeff Atwood that link this interesting article. One of the key point in the article was to consider two different kind of projects

Project  A  will  eventually  cost  about  a  million dollars and produce value of around $1.1 million.
Project B will  eventually  cost about a million dollars  and  produce  value  [...]



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