Hi everyone!

I invite you to continue to follow my code adventures at my new blog: BCoelho2000’s Code Adventures!

Hope to see you soon!

Ever wandered what LINQ is?

Do you want to know how it works in a fun way?

Jeff Kwak explains it in a very cool article. In this article Jeff creates a simulation of life using LINQ.

Check it out!

Here is the link to the source code of my performance tests: Source code Xml Performance in .NET 3.5

Once again: share your experiences about this stuff! Not only about Xml Performance but Performance in general.

Leave a comment if you have any sugestions!

Thank you.

Hi there!

If you are reading this you believe, just like me, that sharing knowledge is the only way to get to another level.

From day 1, we have shared with each other our knowledge, our discoveries and our skills and now… we can even send the man to the moon!

This is how powerfull knowlegde sharing is! And that is exactaly what I’ll do at ISEL.

I will give two seminars:

• XML Performance em .NET 3.5 - XML is everywhere. From an Ajax request to a request to a webservice. Learn how you can use the .NET framework 3.5 to create applications with performance in mind. You will learn how each set of different techniques perform in terms of memory and speed.
• • Tuesday, 8th April at 18:30
  • Wednesday, 9th April at 15:30
• Present, Presuade and Win! - Think about every presentation that you’ve heard. From the politics in television to the sales guy knocking at your door. From your son asking you to buy that new video game to you asking for a raise. Wich one of those presentations do you remenber? Wich one did worked? Learn how you can deliver your ideas with sucess, persuade the audience and win!
• • Tuesday, 13th May at 18:30
  • Wednesday, 14th May at 15:30

  
  I invite you to join us and share your insight!

  Thank you.

This quest ended sucessfully yesterday, when I had the opportunity to make a presentation of the project, Visual Content Management System, and a session of questions and answers with the juri (3 engineers from ISEL).

I have to say a big THANK YOU to:

• My family - for their never-ending support
• ISEL - for teaching me how to think like a engineer
• ViaTecla - for believing in me from day 1

I’m already working as a software developer for 2 years and it has been a great expirience. Everyday I have a chance to make a diference by delivering the best possible experience for our clients.

I believe that the knowledge that I’ve acquired during my time at ISEL and the know-how acquired by 2 years of experience in the field of software development, will enable me to get to next level and change the world.

A new Era is rising!

Hi everyone!

I just want to let you know that my girlfriend, who happens to be a Psychologist and in the final year of her Neuropsychology course, has a great blog: Psico Digital.

In her blog she explains what’s the purpose of Psychology and how it’s connected with the digital world.

At the moment, the blog is written in Portuguese but her goal is to make another one in English, so everyone can understand this important issue.

Hi everyone!

My demo was last Friday at 19pm in ISEL.

I’ve got the chance to talk to some engineers and fellow colleagues about my project and show it in live action.

The biggest challenge that I had to overcome was to give an overall idea of a Content Management System, since the VCMS provides a visual modeling environment over a CMS, and then show how the VCMS overcomes the CMSs disadvantages while providing the user with the agility and control that is necessary to create critical applications to the client business.

I think that I’ve acomplished that main goal. 

Hi everyone!

Friday is going to be a great day since I will have the opportunity to show my project in action to my colleagues and engineers at ISEL.

I’ve made a poster to summarize some key points of the VCMS and give a overall understanding of my project to everyone that will attend the demonstration session, so feel free to check it out.

Back to the project!

Hi everyone!

My first VCMS presentation was in 4th of June at ISEL.

I only had 12 minutes to talk about the project plus 3 to answer some questions.

The presentation worked real well because:

• I’ve managed to talk everything that I had planned to talk about in the 12 minutes
• I’ve answered some questions about the project
• The peers feedback was good

You can view the slides here.

I would like to thank Paulo Correia for his support and feedback on the presentation.  Paulo is a work coleague that has an in-depth understanding of .NET and all technology related stuff, so make sure you stop at his blog!

Hi everyone!

The VCMS stands for Visual Content Management System. It’s my final project for my degree in Informatic Engineering at ISEL.

I’m making this project with the support of my tutor Luís Falcão and Viatecla’s support so I would like to send a “thank you” message for them!

Context

The Content Management Systems offer control and agility over the different domains of the information life cycle. However, they have some disadvantages:

• It’s hard to interact with the CMS;
• It’s hard to understand complex systems;

Goals

Overcome the CMS disadvantages with the creation of a visual modeling system that offers a thorough and intuitive interaction over the chosen CMS.

What is it?

• Visual modeling enverioment
• CASE Tool
• Domain specific language

• Increases the abstraction without ambiguity, enforcing syntax and semantic rules with a visual modeling environment that enables the understanding of complex systems.
• Adapts it self to the chosen CMS:
  • showing it’s specific properties;
  • transmit the right actions to the CMS based on what was visual modeled.
• Creates a strongly typed visual language.