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…

Subtext 2.5.2: now works 100% in Medium Trust

In June this year we released an important version of Subtext that included lots of refactoring and was the first step to being ASP.NET MVC based. Then after a few weeks we released a bug fix version…

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…

All NHibernate Day materials and videos are online

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…

Lucene.Net needs your help (or it will die)

UPDATE: There is a follow-up, which explains what happened in the community after this post: What happened to Lucene.Net? It got forked Lucene.Net, the .NET version of the famous Lucene search…

Hand picked sessions from PDC2010

Update: Added links to all downloadable videos If you are not living under a rock, probably you know that yesterday (October 28th) the PDC2010 started. This year’s format is quite different from the…

Debreefing the NHDay

Less than 10 days ago the First European NHibernate Day took place in Bologna: here are some comments on the day and in a future post, being among the organizers, the process that lead to event. The…

The European NHDay will be streamed online

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…

I'm not an Italian MVP anymore... I'm a Belgian MVP now

At the beginning of October I received an email saying that my MVP award has been renewed again: this is my 3rd time.But I also receive the communication that my MVP lead changed from Alessandro…

First European NHibernate Day: some updates

The NHibernate Day is just 21 days from today, so I wanted to give some updates on it. Did you receive the email? We sent an email to all the attendees, but seems like there might be some…