http://codecruncher.blogsome.com using Microsoft.CSharp.Learning; Wed, 24 Jan 2007 20:22:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This was going to be a post about the different VS 2005 plugins that I use, and some other useful programs for my everyday (most of them Open Source, by the way); but while I was writing it turned itself little by little into a love letter to Resharper. I ... http://codecruncher.blogsome.com/2007/01/24/i-love-resharper/ When I was beginning in software development, I worked for a firm which (among other things) sells a software application for creating plastic cards. That software was off-the-shelf, shrinkwrapped. As you can see, the software had to be able to install itself easily and couldn’t use additional components. To make ... http://codecruncher.blogsome.com/2007/01/16/virtualbox/ Aswering the challenge raised by Jon Galloway on his must-read blog, here’s is my solution to generate some random and fake surnames. Code has plenty of comments. Feel free, of course, to comment questions, criticism or even better, a cool refactor! =) class Program {     //An arraylist to contain ALL possible digrams (see below) ... http://codecruncher.blogsome.com/2007/01/12/random-surname-generator/ For compressing and uncompresing files in ZIP format we have a very valuable tool at our disposal: the SharpZipLib library, made by IC#Code, the same developer group that brought us the awesome Open Source IDE for C# SharpDevelop, which I’ve mentioned before. ... http://codecruncher.blogsome.com/2007/01/04/37/ Every morning it’s the same. I enter my firm’s building and I see a bunch of people waiting to be interviewed for a job. And I always have to restrain myself not to enter the room all crazy eyed and yell at them: “Fly, you fools!”. I wonder why is this. powered ... http://codecruncher.blogsome.com/2006/11/15/codecruncher-the-grey/ Good news for all of us, here, among other places. Some Dave Mitchell, a freelance English programmer and sysadmin, who bought a Dell laptop, has managed to get back the money that Dell charged him for the bundled O.S., a Windows XP Home I guess. Mitchell asked for his money ... http://codecruncher.blogsome.com/2006/11/14/fair-justice/ In the spanish main version of this blog I’ve just translated and published an original Rob Walling post, Nine things developers want more than money. It’s a great article, and since this is in English I’ll merely link to it here. My thoughts about it, coming up. http://codecruncher.blogsome.com/2006/11/09/nine-things-developers-want-more-than-money/ Although everyone and his brother has already posted this, I gotta try… Microsoft has made avaliable the beta of XNA Game Studio Express, a set of free tools for programming games targeted to Windows and XBox. It includes the XNA Framework, which is no less than a collection of managed libraries ... http://codecruncher.blogsome.com/2006/09/01/xna-development/ Wow. I’ve just hurt myself: I’ve just seen Rob Conery’s webcast about the little library he’s created for .NET 2.0 and myu jaw has opened so much all by itself, and not precisely yawning, that it has crashed against my desk. As Conery himself says, he’s followed Ruby on Rails for ... http://codecruncher.blogsome.com/2006/08/30/subsonic/ Or how Google made its very own SourceForge. Google has made avaliable for all of us with a GMail account, Google Code Hosting, a repository for Open Source projects hosted by Google. It uses Subversion, and allows the project administrators to manage a bug tracker, the project collaborators, add links to ... http://codecruncher.blogsome.com/2006/07/31/google-code-hosting/