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Firefox add-ins I use

I love the customization FF can give you!! I have a lot of add-ons installed, preety useful for all my work and browsing time: All in one gestures : Lets you have mouse gestures to control your browser Distrust : erases all browsing info from a session (useful when browsing in sites that can install sw in your machine) Firebug : Developer toolbar... lets you analyze your HTML and http traffic FlashGot : DL manager, I use it with FlashGet to manage my dls, it even let you DL Toutube moveies!!! Google Gears: With this addon I can work Google docs, Gmail, Calendar offline!! Google Toolbar: the classic one! IE Tab: Lets you open a page in FF using the engine of IE. MileWideBack: allows you to navigate and close tabs using the left margin of your browser. ScreenGrab: capture screenshots of your pages TabSidebar: shows you all open tabs in a vertical toolbar, showing a thumbnail of the page. you can even browse back and foth without having to switch to that tab. Web Developer Toolbar: Lots o...

My WinVista looks like a Mac :)

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Hi. In Dec/january, working with Zemoga, I got a Mac. I loved the OSX. hated not having right-clic on the trackpad, the different keys for common Office tasks, different default behaviours, but it was a nice experience. I prefer Win though, and since XP is so nineties, I upgraded to Vista busoiness 64 bit. In order to be more Mac-alike, I found some tools very nice: ObjectDock It emulates MacOSX toolbar very well..... I like it, and I'll like it more when it supports X64 OS http://stardock.com Switcher This tool makes switching application just like in Mac. small thumbnails of all your windows, and you sleect the one yo like.... http://insentient.net/Switcher/Overview.html with these apps, I feel I have a Next-get OS UI!!! Let's see what Win7 can add to this....

Nant and VS2008

I've been reading a lot on CI (Continuous Integration) lately, and I am following the alt.net trend, using nant over msbuild. Nant is a great tool, but it doesn't have a way to build a VS2008 solution. It just breaks. Since it's very annoying to downgrade fom .net 3.5 to .net 2.0 (big fan of var type, workflow development OOTB, planning to get started on lambda expressions, and other nifty features) and I think is too difficult to keep the project in sync with the build script, providing I'm developing using TDD, so my only options seemed to learn MSBuild, which I don't like entirely, or to install VS on the build machine and use exec to call devenv and build the solution. I finally found a shortcut: in fact, I have to use exec, but to call MSBuild (wihich comes with .net SDK) to have it complie the solution! this have worked perfectly. My only concern is what wooill happen when I start automating build with cruiseControl...... Let's see what happens!!

Tip: Creating GUIDs for WSS development using Resharper

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Well.... First post in Englilsh for me! I'm generating a lot of site columns from a feature, and i hate the drill of Options-guid-generate-copy-paste, so I started using a VSTudio Macro that did that for me...The VM I'm working started freezing, so I stopped using it. Today I found I can generate Guids using Resharper very easy! Create a new User Live Template (resharper->options) Give it a short name (i.e. " ig ") from insert GUID on the Template Text Box add $ GUID $ this is a variable that can be changed as a macro value. Select a macro value for the $ GIUD $ variable and assign it "New GUID " OK!!! I also created a " big " template for Bracketed GUIDs using {$ GUID $} as template text that's it: When you type ig or big on your XML it creates a new GUID for you! Warning: You'll have to use RS3.0 because of the XML support.

Switching over to english

From now on I'll start posting in english.... I think this way more people can eventually read me and fing useful information (and rubbish as well :)) Soooo Here we Go!

Nuevo teléfono

Acabo de comprar un Blackberry pearl. Esto es la locura. acabo de configurar newsgator go para leer mis feeds ... despues les cuento como me va. Hace tiempo vengo usando el lector de RSS de JetBrains, Omea Reader. Tengo una muy grande base de posts, y me gustaria conservarla... creo que es la unica inquietud que tengo, porque el Newsgator me sincroniza online, en el feedDemon (cliente para Win) y para el newsgator Go!. esto sí me soluciona la lectura de mis blogs..... Tambien monté Google maps ... funciona triangulando la señal de celular, y tiene muy buena precision ... entre una milla y 5 kms de aproximacion .... pero en las pruebas realizadas funciona muuuuy bien. Adquirí un plan de datos de 5mb/mes .... voy a evaluarlo a ver si me subo a ilimitado, pagando $30,000 adicionales.. por ahora creo que la funcion basica de email y de feeds van a cubrir la cuota .... Tambien comencé pruebas de acceso a sitios Sharepoint.... esto esta super interesante y puede ser explotado para uso de...

Manejo de "Cumpleaños del mes" en WSS 3.0

No he encontrado ningún artículo que indique cómo crear una vista en WSS 3.0 que muestre los cumpleaños del día; el gran problema es la falta de flexibilidad en los filtros por defecto y en el manejo de columnas calculadas en WSS, que no permite simplemente filtrar por una fórmula como MONTH([FechaNacimiento]) = MONTH([Hoy]). Mark Kruger tiene uno de cómo hacerlo en WSS2 , pero no funciona bien con SharePoint 2007, porque no se refresca la fecha una vez se calcula (con lo cual, el filtro no se actualiza de mes a mes). El anterior artículo, y la presión de mi cliente, me sirvieron de inspiración para la generación de la vista con SPD a través del procedimiento que ilustro a continuación. Software requerido WSS 3.0 o MOSS 2007; No he probado si funciona con Sharepoint Portal 2003 o con WSS 2.0 pero intuyo que sí. Sharepoint Designer: Es necesario para poder editar la vista de datos (data view) Procedimiento Crear una lista de contactos para guardar la información de las personas. En e...