«Software Estimation–A Step Closer to the Silver Bullet» @ NetPonto Lisboa 16/06
Two months ago I delivered a very well received presentation at Netponto about Team Dynamics and motivation (slides in portuguese here: Dinâmica e Motivação de Equipas de Projecto). ...
BizTalk 2010 R2
Steef-Jan has a great post about the next release of BizTalk Server in his blog. It seems to be mostly a platform upgrade, but the improvements in the area...
Where’s Microsoft going?
|create|it| has had a strong bet on Microsoft technologies since day one. We strongly believe it has the best overall platform, the one best suited to solve our customer’s...
«Dinâmica e Motivação de Equipas de Projecto» @ NetPonto Lisboa 21/04
Recently I’ve been doing a presentation with my colleague André Vala in academic events (namely IST’s SINFO XIX and FC-UL’s ENEI 2012), themed “Architecture of Complex Software Solutions @...
AutoMapper Revisited
A few months back I posted about AutoMapper, a tool for which I had use in a project. One of the characteristics of AutoMapper is that, when it can’t...
AutoMapper
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...
Cloud Computing: recommended Reading
Good information via Pat Helland’s weblog, on UC Berkeley’s Paper “Above the Clouds: a Berkeley View of Cloud Computing”.
BizTalk Server 2009 RTM on MSDN
This news is a few days late, but couldn’t let it pass: the 2009 version of BizTalk is out on MSDN for download. This is another evolutionary release, containing...
Webcast Best of DevDays | Patterns & Antipattern – April 21st
Tiago Pascoal and myself are doing a webcast with a repeat of our session at DevDays 09, as part of Microsoft Portugal’s “Best of DevDays” webcast series. :) The...
DevDays09: Wrap Up
This year the usual TechDays event focused exclusivelly on Dev contents, and reduced to two days. I was help at IST’s campus on Tagus, a smaller but also cosier...