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Interesting how different roles affects the project

Peter Stegnar — Sat, 05 May 2012 16:23:07 GMT

Slidemotion.com

Peter Stegnar — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 06:21:14 GMT

I am hard working in new company on a new exciting project Slidemotion. Slidemotion will enable users to make stunning videos from their pictures at no time.

In comming weeks public beta will be out, so stay tuned via our teaser page http://www.slidemotion.com/!

Outsource of the existing ASP.NET Membership (authentication)

Peter Stegnar — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 08:02:39 GMT

To outsorce existing authentication on ASP.NET application you have possibility to implement so called "Passive STS".

http://channel9.msdn.com/Learn/Courses/IdentityTrainingCourse/ASPNETMembershipProviderAndFederation/MembershipAndFederationLab/Exercise-1-Enhance-an-ASPNET-Membership-Website-with-Identity-Provider-Capabilities-and-Use-it-from-

Or implement "Active STS" to use membership provider.

http://channel9.msdn.com/Learn/Courses/IdentityTrainingCourse/WebSitesAndIdentity/WebSitesAndIdentityLab/Exercise-2-Customizing-the-Credentials-Accepted-by-a-Local-STS

Microsoft Silverlight strategija

Peter Stegnar — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 15:08:18 GMT

Kakor kaže se je Microsoft odločil polno podpreti HTML, kot edino web platformo. Meni se to zdi zelo pametno.

Sicer je pa bil Silverlight od samega začetka (dobra) nišna tehnologija, predvsem za poslovne aplikacije, recimo. Ne predstavjam pa si, da bi tekel kakšen portal v celoti na Silverlight tehnologiji.

Več: http://www.monitor.si/novica/microsoft-silverlight-nadomesca-s-html/

Super User - not computer question?

Peter Stegnar — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:48:44 GMT

Today I have posted a question on Super User site about music player on the mobile device which users OS.

I think that device that run some form of the OS are computers (among other). Period. As they are computers they belong to the Super User site. Period.

Dear reader, what do you think?

NTK Conference 2010 does not like company attenders

Peter Stegnar — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:35:43 GMT

Today Slovenian Microsoft subsidy started with NTK 2010 home page which looks really cool, especially with integrated Telerik controls.

BUT,

if you would like to apply to the conference, a problem arise. Especially if you are a company attender. You could not apply to the NTK because site .. ehm .. crashes. YSOD. Good for them that they exclude exception trace. Oh yeah, this is the default setting.

So, if you are a non-company attender good for you, you can apply.

But if you are company. Go home.

Dear Slovene Microsoft, it is really unprofessional to unleash the web page that even basic functionality is crashing.

Google Wave

Peter Stegnar — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:36:59 GMT

I have just received a Google Wave invitation!

Let's wave together! If you want an invitation, just let me know.

AutoTrader

Peter Stegnar — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:24:50 GMT

I have started an interesting finance domain project based on newest technologies available (yeah, I love problems and to learn something new) on .NET platform. I will write more about as project will progress or maybe not because it might be a failure, you never know.

So I wanted to present a technology stack of this project:

Infrastructure:

good old SVN (TFS 2010 would be an interesting option I was not be a one-man-band, also git or mercurial would be a nice, maybe even better option. But we have what we have.)
Windows Server 2008 (R2)
MS SQL Server 2008

IDE:

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 + Resharper 5.0 Beta

Technologies:

.NET 4, C# 4, ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 2, jQuery, LINQ, PLINQ, Entity Framework, Parallel Library, F# (for calculations mostly), WCF (.NET 4), ...

Other:

VS2010 Unit testing, VS2010 UML modelling, ...

A sneak peek HLA design (I have "abuse" - or not - component UML modelling):

I have yet to specify where will domain logic go (calculations). But this not affect HLA at all. As I write this I have done and overcome main design issues and "design coding". Now I will start to deal more with "content" or put it another way, house is build but rooms are empty.

And to be clear this is my personal project.

Resharper 5.0 and Visual Studio 2010

Peter Stegnar — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:08:59 GMT

Yes! Resharper for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is out. I have become aware how addicted I have became of the Resharper, when I have initially install Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and start develop within it.

I just missed something - a lot. Resharper really simplify development. Personally what I love most:

Automatic addition of the "using" directives
smarter itellisense
development time error cheking (otherwise you have to build to see them)
a lot of shortcuts (e.g. ctrl+e,u)

So, the problem was that I was not sure that Resharper support a newly coming Visual Studio 2010. Good news it supports! Well JetBrains provides an EAP (Early Access Program) and since 29 Oct. Resharper 5.0 beta supports VS2010 Beta 2! So far as I tested (today version 1528) it working smoothly. I have entered licence data from Resharper 4.5 and it works.

Old router -> New router

Peter Stegnar — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:52:23 GMT

Sorry for the inaccessibility of the site for a few days. In is totally unacceptable, but this is the price for running server at home. The cause of the site outage was good old home router WBR-3406TX. It was really old and it served well till ... the end.

First thing in the yesterday morning I did was to order a new router. I did a little research during the weekend which one to buy. I was totality about Linksys WRT160NL. It has really some nice features (USB port, detachable antennas) on top of a powerful hardware (400Mhz CPU, for instance). I would flash it with DD-WRT firmware.

But in the end pragmatism won. I really need only basic routing functionality. So I smartly picked up a most popular router in one of the popular Slovene computer hardware store. It is TP-Link TL-WR642G.

Probably you do not know even the manufacture. Do not now worry, I did not either. But anyway, the idea worked perfectly. I got inexpensive reliable router which do exactly what I need and nothing more. And that is what we should always do. Do nothing more and nothing less what is necessary.