About Me

My name is Ricardo Barros Figueira (nickname: rbfigueira), was born in 1973 and living in Lisbon, Portugal. I am the founder and speaker of the biggest Portuguese Community of .NET Developers - PontoNetPT.

Recognized by Microsoft as MVP Portugal - Must Valuable Professional in the Visual Developer - ASP / ASP.NET from 04/2005 to 04/2007. Interviewed by Microsoft Magazine (No.50) and Exame Informatica (Issue 143). Co-author of the book C# 3.5, released by the publisher FCA in Jan/2009.

To exit the routine I dedicated my free time to the world of arts. Make oil and digital paintings. For many years that I am involved in the creation of beautiful musics, guitar stuff and digital sounds. If you wish to be able to acquire some unique pieces, stay in touch ;o)

Latest from my Twitter

• rbfigueira: I have published two of my songs. Soon will be more available - http://bit.ly/16GKmr
  
• rbfigueira: My new gadget : Sony Reader PRS 505 - http://bit.ly/rWOpo
  
• rbfigueira: Listen to tracks- http://www.chickenfoot.us/
  
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My Latest Thoughts

• 15
  Jun

  Sony PRS-505
  After quite a bit of research on which one I was going to get, I decided on the Sony Reader PRS 505. There are a lot of reasons for this… First, because uses the same basic technology as the Kindle, supports more formats and is more ìopenî allowing you to get more ebooks on the device. [...]

• 27
  Mai

  Synchronize Method in dotNet c#
  Synchronized methods give us an ability to execute only one thread at a time. This is useful if our method modifies global variable.

• 21
  Mai

  Registering a Virtual Path Provider
  Unlike most providers, the Virtual Path provider is not registered through the web.config file.

• 13
  Mai

  Hashing in .NET - Part II
  This simple function allows us to obtain the hash of a file. In this case the creation of hash takes into account the volume of data file and not its name, you could change the name and/or extension and will obtain the same hash.