Andres Aguiar's Weblog

I’ve installed the RC in my home machine and in the VMs we use for development work.

If you are a long-time Twitter user this post will sound obvious. I’m not, and even if I think this was probably said one thousand times I feel like saying it again.

A couple of years ago I was involved in a couple of threads about doing change-tracking in client-side data structures to support multi-tier development, just like DataSets do, but with the Entity Framework.

I’m happy I got a Mac to have around while developing Quince.

When we started developing Quince I thought we’ll need a Mac to be able to test it in OS/X. I finally had a good excuse to get a Mac! It was a good decision, because it was useful while developing Quince (more about that here), but I´m not happy with it at all.

On Monday we shipped Quince. I was part of the team that build it, and we are very happy with the results. You can read the official announcement and description here.

The CumUY .NET community is hosting a 'PDC Recap' event in Microsoft's offices in Montevideo next Thursday (Nov 13th) at 5 pm.

6 years ago I was in a WebServices DevCon in Boston and Don Box did a presentation about data, where he started playing with SQL and doing things like 'insert into people select * from products'. As People/Products had the same schema (Id/Name), it worked fine (I'm not sure if that was the actual example, but it was something like that). The object-oriented-strongly-typed heads in the audience were nodding saying that he was doing something 'bad'.