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		<title>Maintaining ugly code?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been working on an existing system. The problem?. It’s an ugly mess of non ending functions with misleading names, and other things that makes it really difficult to understand. However there was a tool that helped me a lot. It’s called Visustin . I used the trial and even with the limitations it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hugozap.com/blog/2010/08/19/maintaining-ugly-code/</link>
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		<title>Database version control</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Version control with databases can be a pain. I was looking articles about good practices and found a good one: http://rusanu.com/2009/05/15/version-control-and-your-database/ I think is a good way to make maintenance easier for me and my clients.]]></description>
		<link>http://hugozap.com/blog/2010/07/23/database-version-control/</link>
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		<title>When you have javascript/jQuery performance problems with Internet Explorer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you have a web application that needs to run ok in IE6?.. We were having some performance problems with JQuery and IE6. Specially with the initialization code that caused some white screen and irresponsive interface only with IE6, unfortunately my client still uses it (corporate policy) so upgrading was not an option. Solutions First [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hugozap.com/blog/2010/07/10/when-you-have-javascriptjquery-performance-problems-in-ie6/</link>
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		<title>.NET and startups</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Entrepreneurs are a very special niche of market, they demand tools that allow them to bootstrap their companies fast and budget is always an important constraint. Most of the startups choose an open source stack because of the price, open source tools  and great communities even if the technologies they choose are not better than [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hugozap.com/blog/2010/06/04/net-and-startups/</link>
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		<title>What should you know about Javascript? (If you come from a server side language)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I learned Javascript some years ago, after a long time doing only c# and database related projects. Before deciding to learn it i had the feeling that creating reliable web interfaces was very complex and boring, however most of that thoughts came from not knowing the basic syntax, and more important, the patterns of usage [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hugozap.com/blog/2010/03/29/what-should-you-know-about-javascript-if-you-come-from-a-server-side-language/</link>
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		<title>Learning, a way of procrastinate?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For some time I&#8217;ve been thinking about this, and in my opinion is a common “problem” among tech people, however it can impact directly your productivity, and your long term goals in life. As a software developer who also enjoys entrepreneurship i have realized the importance of this issue. The problem? Learning is fun, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hugozap.com/blog/2010/03/12/learning-a-way-of-procrastinate/</link>
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		<title>custom data attributes in html</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A lot of developers are already using custom html attributes to represent data inside html elements. All the important browsers support custom attributes, even if the html page doesn’t validate.&#160; &#60;div customAttribute=”customdata” &#62; &#60;/div&#62; If you are going to use a custom attribute, use the following syntax and your html page will be valid in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hugozap.com/blog/2010/03/06/custom-data-attributes-in-html/</link>
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		<title>Improve the user experience. Avoid the first ajax request by embedding  initial data in the page.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this post i want to discuss a simple optimization technique for faster loading web applications. Suppose your web application needs to show a list of items from the database, you use ajax, so when the page loading is complete your javascript code will create an http request to the server to get the data [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hugozap.com/blog/2010/02/21/improve-the-user-experience-avoid-the-first-ajax-request-by-embedding-the-initial-data-in-the-page/</link>
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		<title>Front-End engineering for .NET developers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Warning: If you are a seasoned web developer you won’t find anything new in this post) This is the first post (of ?) about front end engineering in the .NET world. This is a critical topic if you have to do any web development. Maybe you think that with all the RAD tools,drag and drop [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hugozap.com/blog/2010/02/14/front-end-engineering-for-net-developers/</link>
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		<title>Hello</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi, my name is&#160; Hugo, i’m a 27 year old sofware developer and entrepreneur from Bogotá. Right now, my passions are my business and software development, specially front end engineering and everything .net related. I have other interests and passions like everybody else and hopefully some of that will be reflected on this blog]]></description>
		<link>http://hugozap.com/blog/2010/02/07/hello/</link>
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