And now, what??

Did something like this ever happen to you?

I was working with Visual Studio 2005 and suddenly it stopped responding. I tried to kill the process with the Task Manager after a while and Task Manager stopped responding, too!!!
Everything else in Windows kept working perfectly with the exception of Visual Studio and Task Manager.

Back to the question in the title... Now What?? If everybody knows that to kill a non responding application you use the task manager, what do you do when task manager doesn't respond? To be true, it had never happen to me before.

So, the next logical step was to try to close the task manager....

and after clicking End Now...

Of course it didn't work.

The scary thing here is that the only application I thought unbreakable in Windows is just another mortal application; but then again... it's Windows, I shouldn't get surprised.

By the way, the solution is to restart the PC. Is there anything that a good restart can't fix?

Hola Mundo!

Bienvenidos a AlienPeople!

Somos tres desarrolladores que trabajamos para la misma empresa de software en proyectos similares, con diferente experiencia tecnológica. Creemos tener conocimiento para compartir con la comunidad de desarrolladores. Sabemos que tenemos un largo camino y mucho por aprender en nuestras carreras, así que vamos a documentar aquí el conocimiento que ya tenemos y el que obtengamos.

Nuestro Enfoque

Tenemos experiencia en tecnologías como .Net y Java, así que nos enfocaremos más en estos temas. Aun así, hablaremos sobre Patrones de Diseño, mejores prácticas y diseño grafico.

Nuestra Meta

Queremos proveer de tips útiles y prácticos que ayuden a los desarrolladores en sus retos diarios. También queremos compartir algunas herramientas desarrolladas por nosotros, estas estarán disponibles para su descarga gratuita.

Nuestro Lenguaje

Escribiremos este blog en ingles (principalmente), pero nuestro idioma nativo es el español. Tomamos la decisión ya que queremos mejorar nuestras habilidades de escritura en ingles y porque consideramos que todo desarrollador debe de tener un buen nivel de entendimiento con este lenguaje. Por otra parte, sabemos que no hay mucha información en español; es por esto que intentaremos traducir algunos de los posts al español, de esta manera las personas que no hablen ingles se podrán ver beneficiadas con la información aquí contenida.

Así que, aquí estamos. Esperamos que encuentren este blog útil.

Saludos,

Hello, World!

Welcome to AlienPeople!

We are three Developers working at the same software company in similar projects and with different technological background. We believe that we have some good knowledge to share with the Development Community. We know there's still a long way in our careers and a lot to learn, so we are going to document here the knowledge we already have and the knowledge we will acquire.

Our Scope

We have background in .Net and Java technologies, so we will focus more on these topics. However, we are going to talk about Design Patterns, Best Practices and Graphics Design, too.

Our Goal

We want to provide useful and practical tips that will help the developers on their daily challenges. But we also want to share some tools developed by ourselves that everybody can download for free and use frequently.

Our Language.

We will write this Blog in English, however our native language is Spanish. We took this decision because we want to improve our skills in English writing and because we consider that any developer should have good understanding of this language. On the other side, we know there is not too much information out there in Spanish; that's why we are going to try to translate some of our posts to Spanish, so non-English speakers can be benefit with our tips and tools.


So here we are. We hope you find this Blog useful.
Thanks for reading!