So why can't I in 2015 write a post in Blogger using Markdow (and paste screenshots)

I just wrote this [Atom Editor] How to run tests from a loaded package using GitHub's Issue UI, and it was a great writing experience (and a real-time preview like discourse would had made it even better)

But I can't post it here!!! Because Blogger does not support markdown!!!

Talk about not keeping up the pace of innovation

What this really means is that I'm getting closer and closer to moving this blog into another platform (the question is which one?)

Install Debugging Tools for Windows as a Standalone Component

Annoyingly (after many requests on MS mailing lists) it is still not possible to download the Windows Debugging tools independently.

To get it, you need to go here

Where Is .NET Headed? and the cost for Microsoft of ignoring the O2 Platform

Here is good post from Scott Allen on the topic Where Is .NET Headed?

I agree with Scoot that the .Net community is not as healthy as it could be, and that Microsoft should Open Source .NET (see some of the comments)

Of course that I'm biased, but I think that the fact that Microsoft (and the .NET community) keeps ignoring all the .Net innovation and ideas that I have been publishing on the O2 Platform (see all these blog posts) speaks volumes for the lack of adoption of new ideas.

For example, at the moment the O2 C# REPL and the FluentSharp APIs, actually allow faster and more efficient development than VisualStudio (you can also use O2+FluentSharp inside VisualStudio)

Yes, I know that I don't play Microsoft's game of singing NDAs and be part of their MVPs club, but that is no reason to ignore what is going on.

And yes there are still tons of usability problems in the current version of the O2 Platform (not that VisualStudio can really claim that mantra), BUT, the point of innovation is that it is rough around the edges.

TraceGL (and the failure of the OpenSource commercial model)

After seeing on reddit (I think) a thread about TraceGL, I decided to try it on TM SSO integration I’m working on (where I really need to take a look at what is happening with a website’s javascript traffic).

Why does Java/Oracle keep trying to install CrapWare on by VM? And why their sales team love java vulnerabilities!

Everytime I do an update to Java (which is quite a common event these days), I get something like this:

VisualStudio 2010 crash

This shouldn't happen inside this VisualStudio dll:

Live Meeting crash

Nice:

Why does YouTube still require Flash in Jan 2013!!!!

I thought flash was over and I find it ridiculous that I need to have it just to see a Video:

Blogger just changed the way it handles post edits (i.e. it changes the date now)

Blogger must have pushed an update that changed the date of an post everytime there is a minor edit on it.

This means that the couple (old) posts that I just changed a couple labels, have now the wrong date!!! 

Why does windows Azure need to '0wn' my GitHub Account?

While creating an Azure website (part of TeamMentor CI) I tried to connect Azure with GitHub and got this request:

Another feedback form that fails – this time from Telerik JustCode

I just uninstalled JustCode, was asked to provide feedback:

JustCode is following VisualStudio 2012 bad Design decisions

I’m trying to avoid using VisualStudio 2012 because not only I haven’t seen any feature that I need, its ‘lets remove all the color Design’ is just horrible.

And what is really annoying, is that VisualStudio 2012 (very bad) Design decision are then followed by VisualStudio extension vendors (like JustCode) who create a Gui that looks like this (in VS 2010):

Software Labels – Jeff’s OWASP AppSecDC 2010 presentation (another dropped good idea)

An old idea from Jeff Williams (which is spot on) is the need to apply Labels to Software and Web Applications.

The concept is simple, but its implementation is really hard, because of the lack of quality standards/metrics in our industry

Why does trying some Windows Live Writer Plug-ins expose me the total system compromise

As you can see on the Trying a couple more Windows Live Code Formatters post, I tried a number of Live Writer Plug-ins before I found one that I liked.
But if you notice (just to try a couple plug-ins!) I had to install a bunch of MSIs and give them full access to my box! And after installing those plug-ins run with Full Trust (again being able to do whatever they want to any of my windows processes)
This is crazy, this is faith-based security.

Failing to use Windows Live Writer 2011 (and going back to 2009)

As you can see at the end of Using Window Live Writer to write Blogger posts I originally started using the 2009 version, so I tried use the 2011 and it failed miserably because, Copy and Paste doesn’t work anymore!!!! This is crazy!! Why???

What a 'salad of DLLs' are the ASP.NET MVC 4.0 template projects

I was taking a look at ASP.NET MVC 4.0 to see how easy it would be to use its routing engine for TeamMentor REST API, and its just ridiculous the sheer amount amount of dependencies that it required (as per the the test/template projects).

Why doesn't VisualStudio (or .NET) have StackOverflow Detection?

It's crazy the fact that one simple mistake in one thread (a recursive call to itself) will bring the entire .Net process down!!!

Another VS 2010 crash

It should not be possible to crash apps like VisualStudio. That kind of mission critical app should have a number of anti-crash protections.

But VisualStudio is a massive salad of technologies (see images at the end), and amazingly (bad) it allows its extension's errors to crash the whole app (which again should not happen). 

During my regular use of VisualStudio, I get all sorts of errors/crashes, for example here is the latest one (without any other extensions installed):

The 'Sync Design Problem' of adding images to this blog

I still don't have a good solution to upload images to this blog.

Here is my current workflow (as just happened for the image I just on my last blog entry)

Google Drive #Fail and DropBox #Win

For a company that is 'just a feature' DropBox keeps delivering the goods.

(for the past week or so) I tried to use Google Drive to backup about 7Gb of images I had from an older iPhone.