Last year we upgraded a big customer's intranet, it was a long project and during most of the time there were 4 to 6 people working on it. I'll stay away from most topics covered in Upgrading to Office SharePoint Server 2007 because they are treated there and I couldn't say anything new. What I want to tell you is how we organized the team, some s... [Read More]

It’s simple, but sometimes leads to frustration, the value comes from the user.
You can give the user the best technically possible, user friendly, powerful application, but it is him/her which gives the value to it. You must “sell” the application to the user, convince him to use it.
Many times the question is "are you building t... [Read More]

One key factor in the success of a project is the motivation of the teams member, I think there is a common misconception in the heart of many “hardcore-techie” about the “goodness” of the team members, we cannot pretend everyone is as motivated as us, everyone will love their job just like we do or even that everyone will give their best at it. [Read More]

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Today I received a mail from MS, a bug regarding the configuration of the tableadapters I reported in 2006 (yes, 2006) and almost everybody I know of has suffered, has been finally taken into consideration and will be reviewed (again)...
You can see it here:
http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=... [Read More]

The meteorite fell and the dinosaurs started extinguishing...
It seems that the crisis is going to strike now, when everybody starts to lower their budgets for the next year because of the crisis. I want to give my opinion about how the crisis will affect IT industry here in Spain.
I think that the crisis will be serious, but not criti... [Read More]

Today I witnessed/suffered a common yet unresolved problem, the lack of "feeling" between developing & infrastructure teams. It's always the same, on one side the developers and on the other one the "infrastructurers" (I'll call them this way). I'm on the developer's side, but I'll try to give an impartial view of the pro... [Read More]

Bueno, tras mucho pensarlo he decidido que de ahora en adelante no voy a poner mas posts en castellano.   El motivo principal es que nunca busco información en castellano; Cuando tengo que buscar algo lo busco en inglés, así que no le veo sentido a poner contenidos en castellano.   Al margen de que los contenidos en inglés tienen una mayor a... [Read More]