8 books (and 3 kits) to get started with Arduino

A few days ago, as part of my summer book list post, I posted the resources to get started with Node.js. Another of my area of interest since one year is also Arduino and the so called “Internet of…

Summer time learning: Getting started with Node.js

It is now a consolidate tradition for me to publish, during summer time, a list of the books I liked reading or that I bought and are sitting on my shelves (or, lately, more and more on my iPad)…

Tips I got from the Umbraco community

I’m not a Umbraco expert, actually I never did a real website in Umbraco till now. So being a developer that tries to adopt agile methodologies and tries to remove as much “friction” as possible I was…

Summer Courses on HTML5, Windows Phone7, ALM and Azure

This August, if you are on holiday and are not in snorkeling in a lagoon in a tropical island, or if you are work but not many things to do due to the summer period, you could spend half an hour (or…

Lucene.net is back on track

More than 6 months ago I blogged about Lucene.net starting his path toward extinction. Soon after that, due to the "stubbornness" of the main committer, a few forks appeared, the biggest of which was…

Orchard CMS available in Italian

Summer, the period when holidays and open source contributions happen. This July I’m very happy to announce that I completed the localization to Italian of Orchard CMS. I started it in March, and…

The history of ASP.NET MVC, so far

This post is a mile high overview of the history of ASP.NET MVC, the features it brought with the various versions and the extensibility points introduced. I am starting to work on both a series of…

When Subtext DB gets out of control (and how to fix it)

During the last weeks I noticed that my blog was becoming slower and slower (and if you visited my blog you might have noticed it as well). After a bit of troubleshooting on the server (which was…

Now Visual Studio 2010 supports new web standards

Today the Web Platform and Tools team (I can see the influence of Mads in this) announced the release of the Web Standards Update for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 SP1. What sits behind this cryptic…

TechDays Belgium: videos are online

At the end of April, Microsoft Belgium organized the TechDays Belgium, the annual developer and IT conference in Belgium, to which I had the pleasure to attend. I also manned the Ask The Expert booth…