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I'm thinking about redesigning my blog and just for curiosity today I tried BrowserShots. It allows you to test any website on 60 different combination of browsers and platforms (35 on Linux, 20 on Windows, 5 on Mac). And as result it takes a screenshot of how the website is rendered. I tried it with 40 default combinations and in 1 hour (the time after which shots in queue expire) it took 34 different shots, from the latest Safari 3.1, IE8 and FF3 to the older IE4. My blog looks as I expected it to be on 30 out 33 browsers: the...

Already 10 days are gone in 2008 and I just realized I didn't have time to write a post looking back at what happened during last year: 15 days before the beginning of 2007 I quit the job for the company I worked for since 1998 in January I moved to Wellington, NZ, and started working for Calcium, a young and innovative software company in February I held my first presentation speaking in English at a Wellington UG meeting about NHibernate in March my old laptop started to slowly die in April I released the...

When I started this blog back in December I advertised it as www.codeclimber.net.nz, but given the fact that Subtext always strips the www out of the domain name when building internal urls, my blog was being indexed by Google with two different domain names: www.codeclimber.net.nz since it was the url I was giving around, that was linked from my post signatures and so on codeclimber.net.nz, the url that was generated by Subtext for some of the internal links, and from the rss feed and the Google sitemap So, to avoid shattering the PageRank...

Almost seven months ago I started this blog in English, a bit more than 6 months ago I landed in Wellington and a few days later I started working for Calcium. And furthermore, in a month (actually a little bit less) I'm going back to Milano to enjoy the end of northern hemisphere's summer and hopefully to do some good climbing. So it's time to draw a line and make some considerations about the past. First let's speak about the Wellington .NET user group My fellows in Italy knew that even before coming to NZ I was more for a decentralized user...