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Thursday, January 10, 2008 9:33 PM

Windows Live Agents: Structuring and Refactoring the code

In order to implement correctly structured code for a Windows Live Agent, we should remember that the /Shared folder exists and what its purpose is. If we want to access an RSS feed and display its contents, the data access code (at least) should be placed...
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Monday, December 24, 2007 5:34 PM

Reading pending RSS feeds... Game development related

Today I'm finishing reading the latest pending RSS feeds, and found some interesting game development related posts/articles. Here they are just in case you wanna read something about game dev today: Raph Koster's "do levels suck?" ...
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Tuesday, November 06, 2007 11:55 PM

Protecting from SQL Injection in ASP.NET

Today a small post that I had in mind since some time... a quick-list of how to fortify against SQL Injection (and some more general best practices). You can do some javascript, client-side validations to avoid postbacks, but rembember: never, ever trust...
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Monday, October 29, 2007 10:36 PM

Windows Live Agents: Structuring data into n-tiers

BuddyScript doesnt supports classes, but leaves you a certain degree of flexibility to at least structure the code in tiers. Today I'm a bit lazy to post code, so I'll just explain how we create our agents logic. First of all, we have a DAL folder...
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Tuesday, September 18, 2007 9:18 PM

5 Tips for increasing your game player base and fidelity

This 5 tips are very general, don't expect any magical formulae. They are based on my 5-year experience with the free spanish UO shard in which I help and do some administration tasks. Have a Website or at least a blog . Writing news, announcing new...
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Saturday, August 18, 2007 2:33 PM

Double Dispatch in JADE 2.0

I've started looking in depth current JADE 2.0 code (it's being massively re-done from scratch, with even a custom .NET DirectX Wrapper), so I'm going to post more frecuently about it's development. I'm still learning how what's...
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Tuesday, May 15, 2007 10:28 PM

5 Things we can learn as developers from videogames

Yesterday, while travelling to work, I thought about what things PC videogames (almost) always do today that should be applied to general development. This are my five ones: Efficient and painless update system : Updates in MMORPGs are very common (both...
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Tuesday, February 13, 2007 3:55 AM

MS Patterns & Practices Performance Testing Guidance released

A new Patterns & Practices guide has been released. Covers performance testing, capacity plans, load testing, stress testing, test cases and testing under Visual Studio 2005. You can find the online guide at Codeplex .
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