Author Archives: awfurtado

Standard Privacy Policy

Posted on December 27, 2012 by awfurtado

This app doesn’t ask for, collect or store any personal information.

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Comcast: a role model for what your business should NOT be

Posted on August 7, 2011 by awfurtado

The Comcast user experience and customer service is an unbelievable sequence of frustrations. I was already tired of playing their “please bring my rates back to normal” game every 6 months, but now my bill gets increased every other month. … Continue reading →

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Hello (new) world

Posted on October 24, 2010 by awfurtado

Following Live Spaces recommendations/migration process, the “FurtaSpace” blog now has a new home: https://awfurtado.wordpress.com/. All previous posts were ported. Will this new house inspire my blogging efforts to catch up with tweeting efforts? No one knows…

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The requested page cannot be accessed because the related configuration data for the page is invalid

Posted on November 11, 2009 by awfurtado

Problem When trying to consume a web service deployed to IIS, the following error is displayed: Description: The requested page cannot be accessed because the related configuration data for the page is invalid. Error Code: 0x80070021 Config Error: This configuration … Continue reading →

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Software Engineering Research and Validation

Posted on November 9, 2009 by awfurtado

Doing Software Engineering research requires well thought out planning and validation approaches. Studying such topics, I have come across a couple of interesting papers. A summary of their most interesting points (for me) follows below. Writing Good Software Engineering Research … Continue reading →

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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Singleton design pattern vs. static classes

Posted on September 23, 2009 by awfurtado

During an internal .NET 101 training at Microsoft one of my students asked a very interesting question: why would we choose to use a Singleton design pattern instead of simply using a "global" static class?   After some thinking and investigation, … Continue reading →

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Brazil wins Imagine Cup for the 5th time! / Brazil vence a Imagine Cup pela quinta vez!

Posted on July 8, 2009 by awfurtado

versão em Português mais abaixo For the fifth consecutive year, Brazil wins a category at the Imagine Cup world finals (the biggest student technology competition in the world). This time, team LEVV It, from Pernambuco, got the first place with … Continue reading →

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