Windows Phone 7: my first comments

Update: the first update has been already announced, adding copy & paste (and some other enhancements) Before Christmas I got my Samsung Omnia 7, and I played a bit with it during the week I spent…

Unboxing Samsung Omnia 7

A few days ago I finally got my Windows Phone 7 device: a Samsung Omnia 7. Here in Belgium there are just 3 devices at the moment (LG, HTC HD7 and Samsung Omnia) which all cost more or less the same…

19 February 2011: UGIALT.net Conference 6th edition

Since 2008 UGIALT.net, the Italian ALT.NET user group, organizes two conferences per year, and will do the same in 2011. The first one will be next February 19th, in Milano, most likely in the same…

Logging all SQL statements done by Entity Framework

One of the disadvantages of using an ORM is that your application doesn’t know which SQL commands are being executed. In this post I’m going to show you how to log all the SQL statements that are…

What happened to Lucene.Net? It got forked

A weeks ago I wrote a call for help for Lucene.Net: not enough activity and not enough contributors. A lot happened since that post so I think it’s worth doing a little recap of what the situation is…

Speaking in Bern about SOLID

While I was organizing the NHDay, this summer I got in contact with Kay Herzam, one of the founder of the Bern .NET User Group: we started talking and we decided to do something together: the…