Creating CodeCollaborator reviews using command line

Some months ago, I started using CodeCollaborator to create code reviews and ensure our developments have the desired quality. We are at the end of our development sprint, so I tried to create some code reviews using the CodeCollaborator GUI with no success. Aparently, one of the...

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Overcome to Windows Azure free trial cancellation by adding a new plan

I decided to try Windows Azure more than 3 months ago, most likely because of it's free 90-day offer. I can tell that I'm amazed on all the posibilies you have for free (Websites, Virtual machines, Mobile Services, etc.). So then, I decided I wanted to continue with the service...

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Solution to: "The operation failed: The relationship could not be changed because one or more of the foreign-key properties is non-nullable"

The operation failed: The relationship could not be changed because one or more of the foreign-key properties is non-nullable. When a change is made to a relationship, the related foreign-key property is set to a null value. If the foreign-key does not support null values, a new...

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There's no reason to be scared, anybody can code now. So just do it!!

I was thinking over this days on how the development tools have evolved. I think that anybody can just start doing code now, with only some little training or just following some of the courses that exist over the Internet. I've been working on software for several years, and as...

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Tic-Tac-R source code

After some tweaks, I'm releasing the source code of the Tic-Tac-R game. As you may find on the previous post, this game is an experiment on how to make a simple Tic-Tac-Toe game in a real-time web application using SignalR and host it on a cloud environment using Windows Azure. I...

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Updates to Tic-Tac-R. Now it works on Windows Azure =)

This is an update of my previous post Update: Post with the source code of the game After spending a lot of time testing and searching on the web, I wasn't able to get the Tic-Tac-R game on my Windows Azure website. I tried a lot of things and can shameless say that I was...

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Tic-Tac-R is alive!

After several weeks of work (and intensive learning) I'm releasing Tic-Tac-R for beta testing. Tic-Tac-R is a little experiment of creating a traditional Tic-Tac-Toe game using SignalR, and it can be played here. On the next days I will be posting the code on GitHub, once we've...

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HealthyHarry: A healthy version of the traditional snake game over HTML5

As an experiment for learning HTML5 Canvas, I created this small game based on the popular "Snake" that many of us played on our old mobile phones (A Nokia 3320 in my case) I deployed the game one of my Windows Azure websites and you can access it here. Initially I was thinking...

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Send content to the layout using a Helper on CakePHP

This post is based on Robert Conner's code forCakePHP 1.x., and I made some changes to get it to work onCakePHP 2.x . The original post can be found here. Maybe some people have faced problems trying to send some content to the layout on CakePHP. By content I mean not only a...

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