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• I've seen enough

  Posted: 21 Oct 2008 at 14:04

  Once upon the time I posted about a job opportunity here, in MessageLabs. Now, after dozen or so interviews I can say I've seen enough to post some reflections. I hope that this post will help one to get most-dream job. Let's get started from the very first thing that recruiter will

• Working with .NET 1.1 in Visual Studio 2008 and Team Server

  Posted: 22 Aug 2008 at 15:03 by Jimmy

  I was trying to write that post for so long that I've started worry that there will be new version of the Visual Studio before I will even start. Finally, I found some time and here it is. What I'm going to write about here is how to use the latest IDE to work with a .NET 1.1 applications. B

• Job offer in MessageLabs

  Posted: 26 Jun 2008 at 10:48 by Jimmy

  MessageLabs is looking for a Software Engineer for my team based in Gloucester, UK. It's an excellent opportunity to join the best security company and become the part of the success story. Our team is group of friendly developers which are aiming to use latest technologies possible. There are a

• More About Building Community

  Posted: 20 Sep 2007 at 16:06 by Ziemowit

  I’m pretty lucky that my boss understands how important the community is and supports us with that in any possible way. Last time I wrote about having some fun together, this time about something more technical. It will be over a month now since we started “eleven sessions”. Basically that means on

• Building Community

  Posted: 14 Sep 2007 at 16:10 by Ziemowit

  I think everyone knows how important community is. Or at least everyone should know that. I think that is even more vital for teams we are working with. After all communication is one of the primary principals, not only according to agile, and how to communicate better if we don’t know each other we

• Which ORM – Advice Needed

  Posted: 15 Jun 2007 at 07:18 by Ziemowit

  I'm starting new project and one of things I'm not sure about is which ORM should I choose. So far I have experience with eXpress Persistent Objects (XPO) by DevExpress. It's nice but I'm not sure if the best. I'm considering NHibernate and eventually DLinq. Database usage will be pretty straightfor

• We are Hiring – C# Software Engineer

  Posted: 07 Jun 2007 at 08:31 by Ziemowit

  My new company is looking for two (2) C# Software Engineers into my team in Gloucester, UK. I need two folks that will be working with me on few projects. I'm looking for geeks, which will work not only on delivering product but also will help me to shake everybody here. So for sure you need to know

• A Sort of Excuse

  Posted: 06 Jun 2007 at 08:59 by Ziemowit

  I'm slowly coming back to normal life after a couple of months spent in hell. I promised myself I will never ever get "spare time" project anymore. List of articles, posts and books is grown massively. Wife wants to kill me as well as friends. So here I'm back. As I see no one was missing me, but I

• Just Surface - I Want That Table!

  Posted: 30 May 2007 at 11:33 by Ziemowit

  I will be surprised if you still don't know what the Microsoft Surface Computing is. But if you dont...Take a look to Microsoft Surface project homepage. I will not try to describe here what is that about. I have no world to do that. It have to bee seen. You can start from presentation on Channel 10

• My First Podcast

  Posted: 22 Mar 2007 at 15:57 by Ziemowit

  Michal Grzegorzewski published my first podcast on Zine.net page yesterday late night. We were talking about AJAX. Unfortunately podcast is in Polish as well as zine.net so sorry for all non Polish speaking readers. Currently we are planning to record the next one about continuous integration this w

• Continuous Integration #2: Versioning and deployment

  Posted: 15 Mar 2007 at 12:32 by Ziemowit

  Here we are in the second part of the cycle. In the first part I show basic concepts and first, simple build script that allows us to build our project on server. This time I will show how to configure automatic versioning and deploying the application to the test site. Versioning First of all let m

• Continuous Integration #1: The environment and the first build

  Posted: 10 Mar 2007 at 00:45 by Ziemowit

  Introduction Before I start, I want to turn your attention for not well know product named CI Factory. It's a continuous integration tool (or server) created by Jay Flower. It's quite interesting alternative for those who don't want to set up and configure everything on his own. The CI Factory is us

• Joined to AJAX Control Toolkit Team

  Posted: 09 Mar 2007 at 10:56 by Ziemowit

  Now I can officially say that, I joined to AJAX Control Toolkit team which I'm very proud of. A number of new challenges and things to learn are waiting for me now. I'm so excited. First thing I'm going to take is ContextMenu Extender. Kirti put short requirements list on his blog, I will allow myse

• Pex: a fish with big teeth

  Posted: 09 Mar 2007 at 10:43 by Ziemowit

  Actually, Pex it's not a fish, it's Program Exploration, tool for test generation and dynamic analysis designed by Microsoft Research. Examples of features can be found on the project page. In shortcut, Pex is able to analyse .NET application and use parameterised unit tests to automatically generat

• Continuous integration

  Posted: 02 Mar 2007 at 10:27 by Ziemowit

  Well, last time I didn't blog too much so I've decide to start a new cycle. It's the best way to force myself to post more frequently. One of the subjects on top of my head was continuous integration so there we are. The other reason is that I will have a presentation on that subject on vBug meeting

• Multiple sites and host headers on localhost with IIS7

  Posted: 01 Mar 2007 at 14:01 by Ziemowit

  One of the limitations of the IIS6 on Windows XP is that IIS is limited to only one site, so I had to use virtual directories for every site I was working on. Unfortunately I had one project that has to be placed directly in the site, not in a virtual directory. That situation made some configuratio

• Validator Extender back again (under a new name now)

  Posted: 02 Feb 2007 at 20:43 by Ziemowit

  Welcome again in the topic. Some time ago we went through a course which gave us fully functional extender. Just to remember, the course has the four parts: Introduction – what Atlas Extender is and how to create our own validation extender, Page methods – how to add AJAX server-side validation, Mig

• .NET Developer Software Charity Auction

  Posted: 19 Dec 2006 at 15:51 by Ziemowit

  Well, Christmas are coming, so this special time I can allow myself to publish some charity. Jamie Cansdale wrote about software charity auction on his blog. Action is designated to support the charity Wells for Zoë, an Irish charity set up in 2005 dedicated to provision of safe drinking water in Af

• WPF, UniveRSS(e) and The Panel

  Posted: 06 Dec 2006 at 23:47 by Ziemowit

  Just a few weeks since the .NET 3.0 has been released and I feel a little dissapointed. I was expecting a lot of new amazing stuff popping up like a mushrooms after the rain, but no, it's a bit quiet like everyone is afraid of using the new .NET. Finally, I've found the very first cool thing today -

• Mysterious Generic TreeSet<T>

  Posted: 13 Oct 2006 at 14:20 by Ziemowit

  Just a few minutes ago, I was looking for something in the System. Collections.Generic using Reflector. I turned on visibility for Private members in options and then I saw something new, a TreeSet<T>. A few days before I was playing with tree structures, so this class turned my attention. Aft