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  • Key Characteristics of an Astronaut

    I was reading up one Mars One (the colonization of planet Mars) and found an excellent page describing the five key characteristcs of an astronaut. For some reason, I found something I wasn’t prepared for – I was expecting a list of hard skills (i.e. knowledge of this, knowledge of that). What I found was Read more

  • Automating web downloads when the site requires authentication

    I had to perform a small spike for one of my clients – how to download csv files from a website that requires authentication in an automated way. The actual downloading of the file is quite simple, there are simple APIs in dotNet that do the job just fine. THe problem is how do I Read more

  • 2014 and thanks

    Well, the new year has already passed and we all find ourselves in 2014, i wish all of you health and success in all of your endeavors for you and your close ones. I’d also like to thank Microsoft for making a MVP for another year. It means a lot to me. To learn more Read more

  • The new art of upgrading

    As you know, Visual Studio 2013 just came out and since there now seems to be a new version of Visual Studio each year, one of the realities we face is that we much upgrade our projects and solutions much more often. In this particular case, I had to touch-up a project from 2 years Read more

  • Online Learning

    Each time I meet a new time, one of the questions they always ask me is where can I learn more. I like to recommend a few books but to be honest, that`s not where I learn anymore. Still though, I end up mentioning a few design pattern and architecture books that I feel are Read more

  • Open Sourcing at Microsoft P&P

    Good news! On my home from the MVP Summit, I read the great news from my old colleague Grigori that the P&P team at Microsoft was going to open source the Enterprise Library blocks onto CodePlex (www.codeplex.com). That is good news as their approach is a totally transparent one, where the Microsoft team will commit Read more