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AutoMapper is a «convention-based object-to-object mapper». According to the description, «AutoMapper uses a fluent configuration API to define an object-object mapping strategy. AutoMapper uses a convention-based matching algorithm to match up source to destination values. Currently, AutoMapper is geared towards model projection scenarios to ...

A few years back I read Francis Fukuyama's "The End of History and the Last Man", a book that presented and defended the theory that the current political and economical status quo/zeitgeist is as good as it gets. There's supposedly no better system, hence the title of the book. This was a book I profoundly disagreed with, but ...

A Fullsix está a organizar um curso de Certified Scrum Master, que vai ser leccionado por Mitch Lacey em Lisboa, no final de Janeiro, com duração de dois dias. Pessoalmente tenho tido algum sucesso na utilização de Scrum, apesar de ser muito fácil fugir a usar todas as práticas da abordagem, e considero que o conhecimento (se não a utilização) ...

Tiago Pascoal has just been awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional on Visual Studio Team System. Congratulations, and welcome aboard! :-)

In the last few days I finally got around to test and deploy FinalBuilder. This tool is like a DSL for building software applications. With over 600 actions (almost anything you can imagine), it takes just a couple of hours to set up a Visual Studio solution/projects doing daily builds. What I did was set it up to automatically build one of ...

The second day started with a BizTalk Server session: ''Enterprise Ready BizTalk - Best Practices from Customer Implementations'', by Ewan Fairweather, one of the authors of the excellent ''Professional BizTalk Server 2006'' (ed. wrox). Not the greatest of sessions, but it had some interesting stuff. One of the topics covered was BizUnit, the test ...

The event officially opened with Soma's Keynote, ''Building great apps''. This was an overview session, as was to be expected, with some announcements: VS2008/.Net 3.5 will RTM before the end of the month (Nov07). Also announced were the MS Synchronization Framework and P&P's ''S+S Blueprints'', both of which sounded ...

This year Microsoft held a set of pre-conference meetings with ''Community Influencers'' (MVP's, etc.). These meetings happened in an interesting open format: The Microsoft Influencers Community Camps will be modeled after Open Space Technology where the attendees define the topics, volunteer or nominate peers to host sessions and then attend a ...

Although with very little publicity (!?), BizTalk 2006 R2 RTM'd 2 weeks ago. This new (evolutionary) version includes a very interesting set of new features, including an RFID server, the ability to expose and invoke services using WCF, EDI support, and lots of other new stuff. Here's my first post about this a few months back, and BizTalk HotRod ...

Back from an hot summer, I wanted to post about an article posted two years ago on Jeff Sutherland's blog on Scrum: «Future of Scrum: Support for Parallel Pipelining of Sprints in Complex Projects». I am by no means an expert of Scrum, but I've been on two projects using this methodology, and I've been introducing its adoption at |create|it|, my ...