http://msalias.blogdrive.com/ Martín Salías = Software Architect Thu, 22 Nov 2007 21:55:01 PST http://www.blogdrive.com Copyright 2007. Programming Software Computer Science http://msalias.blogdrive.com/archive/59.html Fri, 23 Nov 2007 00:53:45 GMT If there is a company than can finally establish the ebook as a regular reading experience (not talking about replacing paper books here), I guess it is Amazon. And they are doing it the big way, or at least starting. See the Kindle device. The thing is not very sexy, and while it has some nice features, the main point for me is who is trying to seel that to us. 1 - We already are purchasing books from Amazon. We already have an account and we all can do 1-click shopping from this gadget. 2 - They already have the digital content, the publisher contacts, and huge amounts of book metadata... (more) http://msalias.blogdrive.com/comments?id=59 http://msalias.blogdrive.com/archive/58.html Wed, 17 Oct 2007 22:50:14 GMT Due to public pressure, I finally started a blog in Spanish. If you don't find anything better to do with your time, waste it at: http://blog.salias.com.ar/ This blog would not be a translation of this one. I'll be posting different stuff with an arbitrary criteria, as usual... http://msalias.blogdrive.com/comments?id=58 http://msalias.blogdrive.com/archive/57.html Thu, 11 Oct 2007 02:13:57 GMT I didn't know about this Agile Center within the Architecture Center, but it is a great discovery (thanks to Roy for the tip). Interestingly enough, most of the time Microsoft was ignoring or just pushing Agile methodologies and practices in the real of development issues. This is the first time I see them classifying Agile as an architectural concern, the same I always did. Maybe I'm unconciously biased by my current (almost full-time) job at Microsoft, but i smell changes... The Open Source site (notice the home animation is still using Flash) Silverlight and all its ecosystem been free... (more) http://msalias.blogdrive.com/comments?id=57 http://msalias.blogdrive.com/archive/56.html Mon, 24 Sep 2007 15:34:47 GMT (This post is in Spanish first, then in English) Como prometimos durante el evento, publico aquí el link a los ejemplos del MSDN Briefing. En la solución encontrará dos proyectos: Language, que contiene varios ejemplos de las novedades de C# 3.0, y LINQ, que contiene los ejemplos de Linq to Objects, to SQL, to XML y to Datasets. http://www.salias.com.ar/download/LinqSamples.zip English version:As promised during the MSDN Briefing at Buenos Aires, here is the link to the presentation samples (the code and comments are in English). The solution has two projects: Language, which contains... (more) http://msalias.blogdrive.com/comments?id=56 http://msalias.blogdrive.com/archive/54.html Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:27:54 GMT This traditional anual event is coming. As usual in the last years, the morning is for heavy metal IT guys, and the afternoon for software punks. :) I'll be the last one in the afternoon, trying to cope with the previous great speakers: (titles are not official, but what we talked about the sessions) Keynote: Ezequiel (my boss) Glinsky and Alejandro PonickeReally Smart Clients: Matias WoloskiConnected OBA aplications: Diego Gonzalez coffe breakASP.NET Ajax: Angel "Java" LópezSilverlight and a bit of DLR: Rodo FinochiettiVisual Studio 2008 and LINQ: me (you could go home, but there is a... (more) http://msalias.blogdrive.com/comments?id=54 http://msalias.blogdrive.com/archive/55.html Tue, 11 Sep 2007 12:14:46 GMT Around June I did a presentation for the third online event on MSDN. Once the event ws over, they took the content offline, and many people asked me about it since then. Well, it is back online. The presentation is in Spanish, and is available at: http://www.microsoft.com/conosur/tercereventoonline/presentaciones/salias/salias_files/Default.htm http://msalias.blogdrive.com/comments?id=55 http://msalias.blogdrive.com/archive/50.html Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:55:09 GMT My August editorial for Level Extreme .NET Magazine Integrating applications -at least at the enterprise level- is today generating the same amount of work, or even more than building new ones. In fact, it can be argued that as far as corporations keep exposing their business processes as cohesive and autonomous services, integrating them in new configurations is a way of producing new applications. However, Service Oriented Architecture adoption is still timid and it is primarily been adopted in new development, whereas just a small portion of old corporate solutions are wrapped... (more) http://msalias.blogdrive.com/comments?id=50 http://msalias.blogdrive.com/archive/51.html Sun, 08 Jul 2007 16:58:43 GMT My July editorial for Level Extreme .NET Magazine. We seem to be in the verge of an important change on computer interfaces. The mighty keyboard dominated the human-to-computer interaction from the last 50+ years. Indeed, since its beginning, in the form of a teletype first, then in a more direct way. Output was more complicated, and moved ahead a bit faster with the jump from cards to printers and finally to the still dominating (but slowly fading) Cathodic Ray Tube. Anyway, computer history is not linear, but logarithmic, and while the mouse started shaking its tail just a mere... (more) http://msalias.blogdrive.com/comments?id=51 http://msalias.blogdrive.com/archive/49.html Tue, 03 Jul 2007 18:12:32 GMT I wrote about this some time ago on one of my Level Extreme .NET Magazine editorials. It seems I'm not the only one. Peter Fisk of Vista Smalltalk fame is thinking among the same lines, although for less sophisticated developer types. My take is that this should happen short-term, but inevitably more complete IDEs will start appearing, and development tools will quickly move server-side. http://msalias.blogdrive.com/comments?id=49 http://msalias.blogdrive.com/archive/48.html Wed, 27 Jun 2007 01:14:47 GMT I love when software -what I like to do for a living- meets art -something I liked all my life. Thanks to Bill Gibson (one of my favorites writers, too) for the link: Women in Art http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUDIoN-_Hxs Sit, relax, and enjoy... http://msalias.blogdrive.com/comments?id=48