Johnny Halife’s Blog

Hi Everybody, after the Code Camp @ Buenos Aires, I’ve packaged my stuff and came to Santiago del Estero. Here the Santiago del Estero National University (UNSE) is holding a technology conference for 3 days (29, 30, and 31 of October). This conference is called JUITECE (Jornadas Universitarias de Informática, Tecnologia, Electronica y Ciencias de la Educación).

I started my day at the Buenos Aires airport where I spent 3 hours more than expected since my flight was delayed. At 12:30pm I flew to Santiago del Estereo and I’ve arrived at 2:30pm.

Once I was completed settled, I went to the university where I was anxious to see the conference about Virtualization my friend, Mario Montalvetti, was presenting. The conference was great, he started from the history of Virtualization and then moved across all the types of virtualization that exist and also the upcoming products (like Microsoft Softgrid).

After Mario’s track, it was time for me to present Microsoft PopFly. The conference went very good, I started describing the Web 2.0 Ecosystem and then the mashups that you can create using Microsoft PopFly.

Also this journey was another great opportunity to spend some time with those guys passionate about technology and help them on User Groups creation. I’m very happy with the commitment, and passion these people have on their personal/group development.

After visiting the university I had time to sightsee Santiago del Estero city which is getting nicer day by day. I took some pictures, and have a cool dinner with the people here. We had problem, an unexpected storm left the city without lights for a while and the streets underwater. I almost had to swim to back get to the hotel.

Now it’s time to go back, I’m preparing my stuff to fly back to Buenos Aires. My plane is leaving in a couple of hours. Hope to come back soon.

Thanks,
~johnny

On October 24t we held the Microsoft Code Camp - Buenos Aires 2007. The event was really good, there were lots of people and of course the speakers were great.

Code Camp was a great opportunity for students to get involved on our daily work, during the event they could see the work done by our user groups, two of the best industry speakers (Alejandro G. Jack and Andrés Aguiar), a WPF Guru like Paulo Arancibia, and also had time to win an X-Box  360°.

I’m really happy with our first Code Camp, I think it’s the first of lots of events where UG and MSPs will be able to expose what they do and what they’ve been working on.

I hope all the assistants have left with a sensation that for the next Code Camp they can be on the other side (as presenters) since this event was thought by students for students.

About my track, you can get DinnerNow source code from http://www.dinnernow.net and start playing around with the bits.

Finally, I want to thank all the people that made this event possible: Southworks Team, Microsoft Argentina Faculty Contact Center, ASPSOFT, Andrés Aguiar (Infragistics), All the MSP (Microsoft Student Partners), and of course to my Track partner Augusto Alvarez.

And remember….

Technology is a journey… enjoy the ride

Thanks,
~johnny

We’re getting closer to the Microsoft Argentina Code Camp to be held on Oct. 24th at UADE (Universidad Argentina de la Empresa).

This event is *completely free* and it will be the coolest event this year targeted for Students considering the topics to be discussed and the involved technologies . We’ll speak about: XNA (games development), Silverlight, WPF, Robotics, Software Architecture among others.

We will show the most interesting tools and technologies shown by Students for Students. The event won’t be pure theory, most of our content is designed to be interactive demos. Also we’re going to provide resources trying to encourage students to get involved and up on speed faster than they think.

You can go now and register at: http://www.microsoft.com/argentina/codecamp/

Agenda

Meeting the speakers

Behind: Pablo Michelis - MS Argentina. Bottom from RtoL: Damián Galletini and me

Behind: Pablo Michelis - MS Argentina. Bottom from RtoL: Damián Galletini and me

thanks,
~johnny

We’ve finally released the Patterns & Practices Repository Factory. This release contains the source code at the completion of the patterns & practices work on this project. As we said before now the destiny it’s on your hands.

The work done includes:

• Independent of Service Factory tree
• Generic code has been moved into a separate assembly instead of being generated every time
• Generated code has been placed in different folders to keep the underlying goop out of the way
• Interfaces are generated for the repositories, so you can provide multiple implementations of the repository
• Auto-mapping of entity fields and stored proc parameters
• Recipe inputs are stored across runs so you don’t have to reenter everything every time you run
• New, easier to use and understand UI screens

and many other additions…

Requirements

To compile this package, you need:

• Visual Studio 2005
• GAT and GAX July 2007 CTP

The package will also compile and run with the earlier GAX Feburary 2007 CTP.

If you wish to compile and run the unit test projects, you’ll need Visual Studio Team Test, Team Developer, or Team Suite editions.

Compilation and installation

Open the DataAccess Guidance Package.sln file and compile.
The easiest way to install the package is to compile the setup project and run the resulting MSI. The guidance package requires a registry key in order to find various support DLL’s needed at runtime. The MSI will create this key for you.

If you wish to manually register and use the guidance package, this registry key is:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\patterns & practices\Repository Factory

Create a string value named "EntlibBinaryPath" and point it at a directory that contains the following DLLs:

• Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Common.dll (available in Entlib 3.1 and included in the Lib folder in the drop)
• Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Data.dll (available in Entlib 3.1 and included in the Lib folder in the drop)
• Microsoft.Practices.ObjectBuilder.dll (available in Entlib 3.1 and included in the Lib folder in the drop)
• Microsoft.Practices.RecipeFramework.Extensions.dll (Included in the Lib folder in the drop)
• Microsoft.Practices.Repository.dll (compile from source)
• Microsoft.Practices.RepositoryFactory.SchemaDiscovery.dll (compile from source)
• You can get both (supported release code and/or Msi) go to: http://www.codeplex.com/RepositoryFactory/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=7429

thanks,
~johnny