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Now that Subtext, the blogging engine I’m working (or at least I should) on together with Phil Haack, has been officially moved to GitHub (guess the reason why), I finally have a reason to really…

Every time there is a MVP renewal there are always some tweets or posts from people not being re-awarded, but this New Year re-awarding cycle was different: a few vocal and prominent community members…

Asynchronous operations in ASP.NET MVC have always been left a bit behind. They appeared in ASP.NET MVC 2, remained untouched in v3, but now in MVC 4 (especially  in combination with C# 5 and…

ASP.NET MVC 4 is the new version of ASP.NET MVC that came out during Build in September: it included a few pretty interesting features like a newly revamped project template, a better asynchronous…

This is the time of year when people look back at the year just passed, review and looks out for the year to come. My retrospection post will come in the new year, but for the moment I want to…

The voting for the UGIALT.net conference just ended, and just in time for the opening of the registration at noon we published, on the new web site the list of the 19 sessions chosen by the more than…

Today I decided to convert an action that was making various long calls to external webservices to be asynchronous. With the synchronous version it was long but still under the default script timeout…

Last week  Lucene.Net 2.9.4 was released on the official site. Lucene.net 2.9.4 There is no official news feed for the project, so I’m just copying here the announcement from their homepage: We…

As you may or may not have heard, yesterday WCF Web API preview 6 has been released. If you never heard about it I recommend you read the quick introduction on CodePlex, but basically it is a…

The Call for Presenters concluded yesterday evening, and I’m very happy to say that we received 50 proposals from more or less 40 different speakers. Voting From now, logging in with your twitter or…