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#VS2017 – #Pomodoro timer in an IDE panel
Hello! I’m a big fan of the Pomodoro technique. I used almost every day to manage small working times. I started using a timer in my smartphone to control the Pomodoro periods and then I tried several Windows Apps. Nowadays, I’m using the Windows Timer App to control time with a 30 minutes period, and the truth — read more
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#TFS – Goodbye to TFS Team Rooms
Hello! I remember when I used Team Foundation Server Team Rooms for the first time. The idea was just great. I even wrote a post about this feature (link) and used Team Rooms for a long time. These days, everyone is a self-proclaimed expert on collaboration tools, I won’t get into this category however — read more
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#Personal – 10 years as #Microsoft MVP (and now Canadian MVP!)
Hello ! Today’s post is a happy one but not an easy one. This is mainly because if I want to name all the people I’ve known, and who have helped me during these 10 years as MVP, for sure I’ll forget many of them. So I’ll start with the one who gave me tons — read more
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#Podcast – The big lie of the 3 layers App design (Spanish podcast)
Hello! First podcast on 2017 and today with several friends talking about “The big lie about 3 layera app design”. The truth is that it is always a pleasure to talk with people who, in addition to having a very good background, are excellent professionals and they are willing to share their experiences. In this — read more
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#VS2017 – nickname installation on Visual Studio!
Hello! I was installing the latest version of Visual Studio 2017 RC from scratch and I realize that now we have available the “nickname installation” option. This functionality had been presented some time ago, but it still wasn’t active for the general public. Within the main view of installation, we can found this option in — read more
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#Humor – #iPhone #AirPods Strap … (really ??)
Hi ! Ok Apple users, you really need to think twice about your choices … And you probably remember this one Greetings @ Toronto El Bruno References Source https://www.amazon.com/Spigen-AirPods-PENDING-Connector-Airpods/dp/B01LVZ4SXN — read more
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#Podcast – Lessons learned after a year recording podcasts
Hello! When I decided to move to Canada, I thought that I would live all day locked up inside my house shoveling snow and running away from bears. Because of this, I added to my list of my community activities: “record a podcast“. I never tried this so and seemed like a great time to — read more
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#VS2015 – Publish to “The Daily WTF” from Visual Studio IDE
Hello! You probably already knows The Daily WTF, maybe like me you spend a complete set of hours with tons of fun there reading about other people ideas. I start to read a couple of them, just to empty my mind, and I found I spent there 4 hours in a click!. Founded in 2004 by Alex — read more
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#Windows10 – UWP Community Toolkit 1.2. With connection pooling support for HttpRequests !
Hello! A few months ago I wrote about the UWP Community Toolkit, as an excellent set of assets that can help us if we are developing UWP Apps. A couple of days ago, a new version was released and it has quite a few new features. You can read the full post in the Windows — read more
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#Podcast – ServerLess computing, #Azure Functions, #Amazon Lambda and more ! (Spanish)
Hi ! Today’s episode is a return to the more technical episodes. In this one, I am lucky to talk with David Rodriguez (@davidjrh) y Pedro J. Molina (@pmolinam) about Serverless Computing. We started with a review on as has evolved Azure from AppServices until the concept of today’s Azure Functions. But of course, when — read more
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#Bots – New Emulator ! ( new if haven’t use the emulator in a couple of months )
Hi ! If you are currently developing apps using Bot Framework SDK, this will not be new for you. However, for me, after 2 months away from this platform, I found a new emulator and I really like it. We can also browse the source code of the emulator, so I spent some time here — read more
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#Git – Sync button, thanks ! :D
Hi ! Some time ago I participated in a LemonCoders Webinar about Git. I remember that the “Sync” button in Visual Studio was something which brings us plenty of fun. In the Visual Studio line of business, this button doesn´t require us to understand anything related to Git, it synchronizes a local repository with a remote — read more
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#HUMOR – Snow season is starting in #Canada
So, Greetings @ Toronto El Bruno — read more
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VS2017 – Improving the solution load time
Hello! Today I found another new cool feature in Visual Studio 2017. This one is related to the load time in “big solutions”. I had read about this, but it had not checked this out it and just today, when I saw the following message, had the interest to read about this feature. Load <Solution — read more
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#Podcast – IT for children (… your perfect excuse to get cool gadgets / toys)
Hello! Today’s episode is also very special to me. Because I have the excuse to reconnect with Roya (@RoyaChang) to talk about computer science for children. Roya tells me about his experience at Microsoft. When, among other things, she helped with the first “Hour of Code” events in Spain. During the chat, we also talked — read more
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#VS2017 – Improvements in Server Management in Team Explorer
Hi ! I’m still using VS2017 RC as my main IDE, and today I’ll share one nice improvement. There is a new Server management view on Team Explorer. You probably realize now we have 2 different views, one for Team Foundation Server servers and the other for Team Services. The new UI is much more user-friendly — read more
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#VS2017 – Analyzing the performance impact of extensions, panels, and solutions in Visual Studio IDE
Hello ! A few days ago in my podcast review of Connect 2016, I talked about Visual Studio 2017 new features. One of the features that have caught my attention these days is the ability to analyze the performance of VS2017 IDE when we are using extensions, the use of panels and the Solutions load — read more
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#Humor – Reverse HTML?
Hi ! HTML users will know … If you don´t understand Spanish here is the translation </body> Computing Programming Experts <body> Greetings @ Toronto El Bruno Source: GDA – Grupo de Desarrolladores de Argentina — read more
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#Hololens – Non official #Training videos on how to create Hololens Apps
Hi ! Everytime someone ask me about how to start developing Hololens apps, I usually answer the same: The best way to learn to create apps for Hololens is using the materials in Holographic Academy (link) And that´s it, the post shluld end here. However this is the perfect time so share a couple of — read more
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#Hololens – Unity 5.5 available! 2 emulation modes for Hololens
Hello! A few days ago I wrote a post where I shared about the current version of HoloToolkit, This version will be integrated and would support Unity 5.5 in December. As the timing required it, the Unity team has to hurry up the last sprint and they have released Unity 5.5 before December. Jokes aside, — read more