This tool by Telerik is a gem that made my work with TFS a lot easier and enjoyable: TFS Work Item Manager & TFS Project Dashboard Go get it. It’s free.

These past weeks I’ve playing around with Excel add-ins. Developing an Excel add-in with ribbon customizations, formulas, and task panes is not an easy task. VSTO doesn’t help a lot. So I’ve been using this great toolset from Add-in Express: Add-in Express Try it out if you’re thinking of doing something with Office…

The P&P team just release a bunch of changes on EntLib 4 and Unity. Finally, PIAB is now integrated with Unity! Check out at: Enterprise Library 4.1 - October 2008 Unity Application Block 1.2 - October 2008 Soon, I’ll try to post some impressions about this Unity release… [crossposted from http://blogs.msdn.com/hugobatista]

Some things just work pretty fine! The first public beta of Dropbox was made available recently. For me this is particularly useful to share files since I normal don't use more than one computer. Like the images you can see bellow:    

Everybody is talking about this so I had to take a look. http://www.google.com/chrome This makes for my 3rd browser. I use Firefox by default, IE8 Beta 2 just because it works better with our intranet, and now Chrome to see if it is that good. I saw the comics and I see the point of making a multi-process browser. Besides that I don't find any ...

As time passes, I find myself doing all the browsing with Firefox. Today I installed version 3 because a colleague pointed me to the PicLens add-on. This add-on is simple amazing! Another reason to forget about IE. :)

IBM has started a series of articles related to Capturing Architectural Decisions at its developerWorks site.This first part of the series presents a domain meta model specifically designed to capture and share architectural decisions and outlines why and how architects should consciously identify, make, and enforce ...

If you, like me, use Outlook for email, you'll find this tool very interesting. The search feature, just for itself, justifies the download. http://www.xobni.com/

All the analysis tools that come with Visual Studio 2008, allow you to suppress analysis on files that were automatically generated by tools and are supposed to be regenerated at some point in time. The question is how do these tools know that a code as been generated by a tool? Well, it's very simple. All the classes, members, methods, etc. ...

The Software Engineering Institute's is well know by its contributions to the field of Software Enginbeering in general and Software Architecture in particular. In the resource area for architects you can find lots of information but also a tool to help software architects doing their business: ArchE. The Architecture Expert (ArchE) tool is an ...