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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 and helped attendees with their questions about ASP.NET MVC, Orchard and web development. It was 3 days of very interesting sessions, ranging from the keynote/standup comedy show by Scott Hanselman to the ASP.NET MVC Deep Dive sessions by Hadi Hariri and to the Girls-Power WP7 development session by Katrien DeGraeve and Isabel Gomez Miragaya. And the last day was a deep-dive on everything ALM: a bit of...

Almost one month passed since the NHDay in Bologna and but we didn’t forget about the promise we made about streaming and having the videos online for people that couldn’t attend. And now, after all the processing required to get the vidoes out of the cameras, processing and uploading them fighting with the “digital divide” that affects some areas of Italy, all the vidoes, presentations and samples (when available) are online. Keynote by Simone Chiaretta: video and slide What’s new in NH3 by Ayende: video and slide From relational...

As probably all my reader know by now, in a few days there will be first edition of the European NHibernate Day, and since all the 220 available seats have gone more than one month ago, to give to everybody the opportunity to watch the speeches we decided that we’ll try and stream the complete event online. We created the ugialtnet account on UStream.TV and two channels that will broadcast the live stream from the two rooms: The Main Room, where Ayende will speak The Small Room, where all the other speakers...

That’s the latest “episode” of my review of the PDC videos I’m downloading and plan to watch in the future. I’m now at 8Gb of videos. For those who are interested, on Channel9 the same video are available also in lower quality WMV, formatted for the Zune and in MP4 for those who want to watch on a iPhone or iPod. .NET: PC49 - Microsoft .NET Framework: CLR Futures - Ian Carmichael, Joshua Goodman ASP.NET: ...

Last Tuesday, for my birthday, 11th September, I received a gift from my wife: the new iPod Nano Video (3G) Red. Less then a week after it has been presented to the World by Steve Jobs. So, even if not very .NET related, I wanted to post here the first impressions and some picture.     Just a little bad experience: the gift message was printed only on the shipping notice, and the cardboard shipping box was still shaped to hold the old iPod Nano 2G (tall and thin). As usual, iTunes display the exact model and color of the connected device....

Every now and then I add a YouTube video to my posts... but one of the biggest problem is that reader that read the RSS feed don't get the video, because all the feedreaders I know don't render the object or embed tags, the one used to display the flash player for the youtube video. A few weeks ago I found a very nice WLW plugin, that allow you to select a video from youtube, google video or MSN SoapBox, add it to your post using a javascript function that renders as embed in a full featured browser, or as...