Field Notes

Use your time wisely, it is a finite resource

Everybody talks about productivity and optimization these days. The get things done (GTD) popularity has been around since I can

Entrepreneurship has become too fashionable

It used to be that people who ventured with startups were hardcore entrepreneurs, those who did it out of necessity

Be the person where the problems die, be the finisher and people will notice you

Many people often ask and wonder how or why they don’t get promoted, or even noticed at their jobs.

How to use Active Directory groups to restrict access to controller actions in ASP.NET MVC and make your application even more secure!

It’s been a year and one of the most popular posts in this blog still today is How To:

Tips to have success as a remote worker

I still remember when I first had the opportunity to work remotely, it took some convincing but my employer at

How to build a software product in your spare time

I have been writing code professionally since the early days of .NET although I remember doing lots of classic ASP

Startups: Blog more, is good for awareness and for your health too!

It's Your Choice

Reading this blog post is a choice, everything around you is the result of the decisions you’ve made during

Bug Tracking Done Right

Many companies today track bugs and features in a bug tracking system, this is a good thing. It is necessary

Should I continue with my idea?

These days the word entrepreneur, founder, start-up, small business owner are very common and so it is the idea of

Switching to Windows Azure

The annoying sound of the alarm clock crying for attention at 5:00am in the morning woke me up. Everybody

My Facebook feed is starting to look like my inbox back in the late 90s...

Remember back in the day when everyone started to get into email and sharing messages and photographs was the main

You are not a robot

As babies, we learn everything by getting to know our surroundings. We listen, we touch, we taste, we smell and

Innovation

Innovation is an overused word and very often, not recognized for what it is or what it means but instead,

How To: Secure your ASP.NET MVC application and use Active Directory as the Membership Provider

Securing your ASP.NET MVC application should be priority number one every time you start a new web application. Using

How to: Configure SQL Express to accept remote connections

This is a copy of the post that used to exist here for which I got some complaints since some

Retrieving images from a dabatase in ASP.NET MVC

If you run into a ASP.NET MVC site that needs to get images stored as binary data in a

Infinite scroll with ASP.NET MVC

An infinite scroll is a nice solution when you need to display large amounts of content in page, it helps

Making progress, slowly but surely

I can’t believe it’s been about a year since I started with the idea of TidyContact, time really

Installing Windows Home Server (WHS) Connector in Windows 7 64-bit

I bought a Windows Home Server about two years ago, I use it primarily for backups and file sharing in