• Event: Going Deep with Windows Azure

    Published by Nicolas Paez on June 29th, 2012 9:28 pm under news

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    This past Tuesday and Wednesday Microsoft Argentina hosted the Going Deep with Windows Azure training event. We took care of second day sessions: Azure Service Bus Hadoop on Azure Node.js and Java on Windows Azure Azure Websites Azure Virtual Machines I was in charge of the third session. I started talking about the different technologies supported by Azure... read more
  • Smalltalks 2011, we were there

    Published by Nicolas Paez on November 14th, 2011 5:21 pm under news

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    The 5 th international conference on Smalltalk technologies, Smalltalks 2011 organized by FAST, was held during the first week of November. Among the keynote speakers were Ian Piumarta and Kim Rose (from Viewpoints Research Institute), Markus Denker (from Inria and founder of Pharo project) and a couple of guys from Gemstone (Dale Henricks and James Foster among others). Out... read more
  • New series: game development

    Published by Nicolas Paez on January 11th, 2011 11:44 am under news

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    In a while I will start working on a new project related to game development and I thought that it was a good opportunity to write some stuff about it. I have never been involved in commercial games development, but I have background on the topic. I been teaching object-oriented programming at Fiuba and most of the programming... read more
  • Optimizing Azure Blob Storage Uploads

    Published by Nicolas Paez on December 30th, 2010 5:37 pm under news

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    During this week I have been working on an application that relies on Azure Blob Storage. In a few words the application run some processes and uploads the resulting files to Azure. The after each run, some files can change while other remains equal. In order to optimize the application JuanAr suggested adding logic to... read more
  • Workshop: ISO + Agile

    Published by Nicolas Paez on December 13th, 2010 5:42 pm under news

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    Well, I know, it’s been a long time, but I‘m back. In this occasion I want to tell you about the workshop facilitated last Friday together with my colleagues: Ariel and Ezequiel. It was publicized under the name “Comunidad de Calidad: Se puede ser ágil siendo ISO 9001?” (or in English:Quality Community: Can you be agile and still be... read more
  • Mix 10 highlights in Argentina

    Published by Nicolas Paez on March 23rd, 2010 9:54 am under news

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    Yesterday evening Microsoft Argentina organized a small event to share the highlights of Mix 10 and Miguel Saez invited us to show some of the things we’ve been working on for the recently finished MIX10 event in Las Vegas. The event started with Miguel Saez talking (and showing) the new Bing features and Internet Explorer... read more
  • Fridays @ Southworks

    Published by Nicolas Paez on March 1st, 2010 11:00 pm under news

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    Every Friday at 9 o’clock we have the “Friday Presentations”. Any Southie can propose a presentation, there is no restriction about the topic, so you could be watching someone talking about dynamic languages or sharing his experiences during the last PDC. However, most presentations talk about projects that are currently executing or that we have... read more
  • Project A: day#end

    Published by Nicolas Paez on December 28th, 2009 2:26 pm under news

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    We shipped it! The product is now complete. It is not yet in production environment because the Go live!is scheduled for the end of January. Working on this project has been a very pleasant experience and weperformed a smooth delivery as well. A few numbers of this project: 44 stories completed Representing a total weight... read more
  • Project A: day#11, same team new project

    Published by Nicolas Paez on December 7th, 2009 5:02 pm under news

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    Today we started working on project A2. Project A is still in progress but the work remaining is enough for one dev, so  together with the customer we decided to split the team in two. Diego will continue working in project A for 2 weeks while Gabriel and myself will start working on project A2.... read more
  • Project A: day#10

    Published by Nicolas Paez on December 4th, 2009 6:58 am under news

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    We have just finished the second iteration and we are on track, we completed all the committed items and also some others that we found during the iteration. At the same time are working in a ISO complain way (that is what our complain checker says). One interesting characteristics of this project is that we... read more