Over a decade ago, when I began managing software engineers, I had no idea what I was getting myself into, nor did I have any prior experience leading people. My whole life I had been told what to do (at school, at home and at work), so that seemed like […]
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Hi all, long time no see, I know…! 🙂 I’ll be blogging today about a common problem for most development teams: estimating your development work. My team has been having some discussions on how to improve our estimation process and I’ve decided to share my experience with that particular aspect. First, […]
Estimating Development Work
I’ve promised my son a long time ago that I would teach him how to program and recently I just set myself to put the time aside to actually do it. I started by teaching him basic programming concepts, related to algorithms, by using some educational games I found on […]
My son's first video game!
Hi all, I’ve recently started playing World of Warcraft again and, after some time playing, I decided to go back to making movies about my raiding experience, which is something I enjoy doing. My first movie in Mists of Pandaria expansion is Norushen 10 man on heroic difficulty, I hope […]
Back to WoW and making movies
Today I came across this post on Facebook from a good friend (thanks Nuno!) about a guy that used to play World of Warcraft and then stopped playing after feeling he was addicted and needed to regain control of his life. In a 7 minute documentary, Anthony Rosner explains his […]
Can World of Warcraft work as a learning experience?
Yesterday I went to a Workshop promoted by my current employer with the subject of Greenline. This workshop was intended to introduce Greenline as a new way to manage conversations and increase one’s communication and interpersonal skills. According to the promoters of this Workshop, Greenline is “a scientifically-based methodology to […]
Greenline – a different approach to conversations
1 I’ve been reading a bit about the history of video games and found this very interesting debate over which was the first video game ever. Most people tend to agree that Spacewar! is the one, probably because it was the first one being somewhat “distributed” or played by several people […]
The very first video game ever?
Hi all. Today I had to find a way to send emails with embedded images in it, for branding purposes. At first glance, it might seem an easy task to accomplish but it took me some time to actually realize how I could pull this through. To be able to […]
Sending emails with embedded images in .NET
This past week, I had to implement some functionality for my current project and part of it involved collecting a date from the user. At first glance my mind was set: “Easy! Put a Date Picker in that page and you’re sorted!”. But… Nope… We couldn’t… Why? No idea. Looks […]
Non-Standard way of collecting dates with jQuery
I’ve been quite busy the last few weeks since I started a new role but they have been very interesting since I am working on a project that allows me to get in touch with a few cutting-edge technologies that I had no professional experience with, namely .NET Framework 4.5, […]