Monthly Archives: May 2008

Design Guidelines for Developing Class Libraries

Posted on May 30, 2008 by awfurtado

  Do you know the difference between the following C# code blocks below?   // Snippet 1: catch (Exception ex) {    // do something   throw ex; }   // Snippet 2: catch (Exception ex) {    // do something   … Continue reading →

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Imagine Cup Brazil 2008 is over, Pernambuco state students are champions again

Posted on May 28, 2008 by awfurtado

  For the fourth time, students from the Pernambuco state are the brazilian champions of Imagine Cup. My friends Carlos Rodrigues and Renato Ferreira, from the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), together with my other friends Roberto Sonnino and Eduardo … Continue reading →

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GAT + DSL = automation

Posted on May 25, 2008 by awfurtado

  These days I’m playing with interesting approaches (other than DSL Tools) that also compose the Microsoft Software Factories Initiative, and I’ve started with GAT (Guidance Automation Toolkit). Roughly speaking, GAT allows you to define "automation recipes" that run inside Visual … Continue reading →

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VS add-ins I recommend (and one I don’t understand)

Posted on May 24, 2008 by awfurtado

  Three cool Visual Studio add-ins I recommend are:   RockScroll: displays a thumbnail instead of the scroll bar. What is really cool is that some sections of this enhanced bar gets colored as you change your code, so you … Continue reading →

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Live Search Cashback

Posted on May 23, 2008 by awfurtado

  The brand new Cashback feature of Microsoft Live Search was just released. The idea: search for products using Live Search. If you buy any of the products in the search result, Microsoft will give you money (cashback).     … Continue reading →

Posted in Computers and Internet | 12 Comments

How to change your windows live ID email

Posted on May 22, 2008 by awfurtado

  If you, like me, created your Windows Live ID a long time ago (or should we call it "MSN Passport" at that time?) and uses no more the email you’ve used when registering, you should know it’s possible to update … Continue reading →

Posted in Computers and Internet | 28 Comments

Microsoft’s vision on the (near) future of healthcare

Posted on May 21, 2008 by awfurtado

  When I joined the Microsoft Student Partners Program (MSP) about 4 years ago, I used to present some videos in which Microsoft’s shared its vision for the future of healthcare, entertainment and other areas. Looking back to those videos, … Continue reading →

Posted in Computers and Internet | 11 Comments

More productivity shortcuts and tools

Posted on May 20, 2008 by awfurtado

  From some previous blog posts (such as in here and here) you can tell I’m a sort of shortcut freak. Let me share some more cool Vista shortcuts and related things I’ve just learned today (thanks to some Brazilian … Continue reading →

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Subscribing to Technorati

Posted on May 18, 2008 by awfurtado

  Taking this blog a step beyond, I’ve created a Technorati Profile. Let’s check which improvements can be achieved with that.     []s — AFurtado   The statements or testimonies I offer in this post represent my own personal … Continue reading →

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DSL Tools: how to resources

Posted on May 17, 2008 by awfurtado

  I’ll update this post every time I find an interesting DSL Tools related task. This complements other DSL Tools tasks I’ve identified while reading the DSL Tools authors’ book. Adding a custom item (command) to a DSL Tools diagram context … Continue reading →

Posted in Software Engineering | 17 Comments