PDC Bloggers Edgar Sanchez

Scrum vs. CMMI Level 3

Edgar Sanchez — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:19:42 GMT

Edgar Sanchez writes "...Of late, I have been helping start a Microsoft SDL implementation effort and, as part of it, it comes the decision of what flavor of MSF we should use: Agile (Scrum nowadays) or CMMI...this is a corporate customer, expecting to have budgets and schedules defined in order to green light any sizeable project, so we naturally lean to CMMI but..."

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InDepthTalk.net : Topics : TechTalk

Finding the Distance Between Adjacent Points in F#

Edgar Sanchez — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:21:04 GMT

Edgar Sanchez writes "...Let’s say you are given a list of data points:...And you are asked to find the distance between every adjacent pair...It turns out that there is an elegant solution to this problem:...The magic happens in the pairs function...it creates a tuple with every member of the list and its right neighbor. The trick is that tail gets bounded..."

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InDepthTalk.net : Topics : NET Framework

Entity Framework LINQ to SQL and Oracle

Edgar Sanchez — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:03:45 GMT

Edgar Sanchez writes "Amid the debate about which is better and have more future...between LINQ to SQL and Entity Framework, one thing they have in common is the fact that Oracle is in “no comment” mode about both of them...IMHO, Visual Studio 2008 is so productive that people may first consider moving from Oracle to SQL Server before moving from VS 2008 to JDeveloper...Luckily, .NET Framework has a big ecosystem"

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InDepthTalk.net : Topics : SQL Server
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Visual F# CTP - Functional Programming is Steadily Invading

Edgar Sanchez — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:42:42 GMT

Edgar Sanchez writes "As far as I know, this will be an historical event: for the first time a mainstream platform (commercial or otherwise) wholly adopts a functional language...there are several reasons for the functional programming paradigm to be considered..."

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InDepthTalk.net : Topics : NET Framework

The Mono Profile for F# is Now Used

Edgar Sanchez — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:56:26 GMT

Edgar Sanchez writes "...at some point F# stopped working properly in Linux, a workaround was published (and it actually works, but you've got to follow the instructions carefully). Well, not anymore, 1.9.4.19 works out of the box with Mono in Linux, you just have to..."

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InDepthTalk.net : Topics : NET Framework

Nested Sequences and Palindrome Numbers

Edgar Sanchez — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:15:22 GMT

Edgar Sanchez writes "Problem 4 of Project Euler poses...intriguing problem given all three digit numbers (100, 101, 102, ..., 998, 999), find the largest product of 2 of those numbers, where the product is a palindrome. One possible functional C# solution is..."

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InDepthTalk.net : Topics : TechTalk

Project Euler and Functional C#

Edgar Sanchez — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:44:29 GMT

Edgar Sanchez writes "...they are good programming calisthenics, and may also be a good way of learning a new language....I'll be using C#, but not your plain old C# mind you, as I'll do my best to use in as much as possible the functional facilities of C# 3.0. Let's see for example Problem 1:"

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InDepthTalk.net : Topics : TechTalk

Comparing ASP.NET and JSP architecture and components

Edgar Sanchez — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 12:53:56 GMT

Edgar Sanchez writes "Next Tuesday 4th I'll be doing a webcast by the title of Comparing ASP.NET and Java ServerPages (JSP) Architecture and Components, as usual I'll try to minimize the quantity of slides and show as many code as possible..."

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MSDNEventsBloggers.net : Events : Webcasts

Tiny C# shortcut

Edgar Sanchez — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 07:28:29 GMT

Edgar Sanchez writes "Reading about validation on Brian Noyes' Data Binding with Windows Forms 2.0, I found this funny way of checking for a string not being empty or null..."

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MSDNEventsBloggers.net : Topics : Visual Studio

ASP.NET custom controls webcast - Monday 13th

Edgar Sanchez — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 13:17:33 GMT

Edgar Sanchez writes "Next Monday 13th at 9:00 A.M. PST I'll be doing a webcast on developing ASP.NET custom controls..."

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MSDNEventsBloggers.net : Events : Webcasts

What is WinFX: an Executive Summary

Edgar Sanchez — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 03:46:09 GMT

Edgar Sanchez writes "Here you will find a *very high level* overview of WinFx. Good as a first step on selling the use of WinFx in that next projecto to your CIO..."

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MSDNEventsBloggers.net : Topics : Architecture
TechEdBloggers.net : TechEd2006 : Topics : WinFX

WinFX February CTP

Edgar Sanchez — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 13:35:55 GMT

Edgar Sanchez writes "This morning I installed WinFx February CTP in the recommended order (Runtime, Win SDK, VS Extensions) and everything went smoothly..."

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MSDNEventsBloggers.net : Topics : Visual Studio

TechEd 2005: Day 1 afternoon

Edgar Sanchez — Tue, 07 Jun 2005 15:33:00 GMT

Edgar Sanchez writes "After that I went to an introductory talk on Biztalk 2004 for Visual Studio developers, so far it's best one I've gone to (but it's only Monday): Aaron Skonnard know his stuff and he's also a great presenter, I look forward to meet him personally some day."

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TechEdBloggers.net : TechEd2005 : Tracks : DEV
TechEdBloggers.net : TechEd2005 : Topics : Servers : BizTalk Server
MSDNEventsBloggers.net : Topics : Server Products : BizTalk
TechNetEventsBloggers.net : Topics : Server : BizTalk

IIS: the corporate web server

Edgar Sanchez — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 22:14:45 GMT

Edgar Sanchez writes "According to this survey, IIS is *by far* the most used web server at the Fortune 1000..."

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TechEdBloggers.net : TechEd2005 : Topics : Servers : Windows Server

Meet Interesting People

Edgar Sanchez — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 04:39:18 GMT

Edgar Sanchez writes "I look forward to meet with at least as many interesting people as I did last year. On the down side, T&E are on my tab, which could be expensive for a guy living in the Andes. Luckily, I've got a few months to do the savings. "

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TechEdBloggers.net : TechEd2005 : Extras : PreConference

Declaring Nullable Types

Edgar Sanchez — Thu, 27 May 2004 13:15:06 GMT

Edgar Sanchez writes "In today's presentation, Anders introduced some new syntax (to me) for nullable types. It goes like this: if you have a value variable (struct or simpler) that could get null values, you declare it like this..."

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TechEdBloggers.net : TechEd2004 : Tracks : DEV : DEV321
TechEdBloggers.net : TechEd2004 : Topics : NET Development : CSharp

From Quito to San Diego

Edgar Sanchez — Sat, 22 May 2004 11:33:01 GMT

Edgar Sanchez writes "I left my home town, Quito, a couple of hours ago, now I'm at Lima, Peru, so I'm now 1.200 km (800 miles) further away from TechEd, it looks like a step behind, doesn't it?"

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TechEdBloggers.net : TechEd2004 : Extras : Travel

PDC Registration Smooth

Edgar Sanchez — Mon, 27 Oct 2003 02:47:44 GMT

Edgar Sanchez writes "The registration process went on smoothly except for a small glitch in the software: my last name is Sánchez, with a tilde in the a and that was too much for the registration software, but after a while the ladies at the desk figured it out and everything went OK. "

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PDCBloggers.net : PDC2003 : Extras

A Few Hundred Geeks and a Panel

Edgar Sanchez — Tue, 14 Oct 2003 20:08:50 GMT

Edgar Sanchez writes "The idea behind the panels is interesting: put some authoritative Microsofties with a few hundred geeks, let the geeks fire at will and see if the Microsofties can come alive and complete..."

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PDCBloggers.net : PDC2003 : Tracks : Panels

.NET Rocks Summary

Edgar Sanchez — Sat, 11 Oct 2003 20:56:45 GMT

Edgar Sanchez writes "I just finished listening to .NET Rocks! interview to Scott Guthrie on Whidbey's ASP.NET 2.0, here follows a quick summary...To keep it short, I've concentrated in the what..."

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PDCBloggers.net : Community : NET Rocks
PDCBloggers.net : Year2004 : Whidbey

PDC Bloggers Edgar Sanchez

Scrum vs. CMMI Level 3

Finding the Distance Between Adjacent Points in F#

Entity Framework LINQ to SQL and Oracle

Visual F# CTP - Functional Programming is Steadily Invading

The Mono Profile for F# is Now Used

Nested Sequences and Palindrome Numbers

Project Euler and Functional C#

Comparing ASP.NET and JSP architecture and components

Tiny C# shortcut

ASP.NET custom controls webcast - Monday 13th

What is WinFX: an Executive Summary

WinFX February CTP

TechEd 2005: Day 1 afternoon

IIS: *the* corporate web server

Meet Interesting People

Declaring Nullable Types

From Quito to San Diego

PDC Registration Smooth

A Few Hundred Geeks and a Panel

.NET Rocks Summary

IIS: the corporate web server