Monthly Archives: October 2009

PM verb blitz

Posted on October 26, 2009 by awfurtado

While positions in the Dev/Test discipline at Microsoft are straightforward to understand for newcomers, this is not exactly true for the PM (program management) discipline. It’s not the same thing as project management and relies much more on a technical side.   … Continue reading →

Posted in Career | 14 Comments

How I extend Visual Studio?

Posted on October 20, 2009 by awfurtado

These are the projects of individuals/companies who presented in the Microsoft’s Development Tools Ecosystem Summit 2009 how they are extending Visual Studio: Atmel – IDEs for AVR microcontrollers Oleg Synch – T4 Toolbox: a set of ready-to-use code generation templates … Continue reading →

Posted in Software Engineering | 18 Comments

Keyboard key mapping – solving the ASUS question mark (?) problem

Posted on October 19, 2009 by awfurtado

Just sharing something useful: I have an ASUS laptop with a brazilian keyboard but the question mark/slash key (? and /) never worked with the brazilian ABNT layout. After browsing the web I found out that such a key was … Continue reading →

Posted in Computers and Internet | 2 Comments