Fix the date: Italian ALT.NET Conference Summer Edition

We just booked the room, and fixed the date for the next Italian ALT.NET Conference: it will happen on Saturday June 27th, and will be held in Bologna (which is not where Spaghetti alla Bolognese was…

Joining "IE6: Do NOT want!" campaign

UPDATE: It seems like Facebook joined the campaign as well: Facebook joins the war against IE6!!! If you are accessing my blog with IE6 you will see above the header a green box that informs you that…

If you are still wondering how fast is ADO.NET vs ADODB

There is this nice paper written by Jason McGuire titled: Performance Comparison of Microsoft’s ADO and ADO.NET Database Connectors The quick answer to the question is: inside a .NET application,…

Oxite: what’s new and how to stay up to date with it

As probably you read somewhere else, a few days ago the Channel9 team released the latest version of Oxite. If you remember, when it was first released back in December, there was a lot of negative…

Interest in ASP.NET MVC is raising

...Or at least this is what we can infer from Google Trends. From this graph we can see that searches started in 4th quarter of 2007 (when ASP.NET MVC was first announced) and spikes always…

Video explanation of jQuery

Lately I’m trying to get deeper into jQuery and during one of mine information hunting sessions I found this awesome video presentation of jQuery, by Ben Nadel. It’s a 1h45min screencast that covers…

A big applause to Mindscape

Just a quick note to congratulate with JD, JB and Andrew Peters for the big achievement: Mindscape, the company behind Lightspeed, was named as the second best NZ startup of 2008.A big achievement for…

Introducing Bespin, online collaborative code editor

After word processors, mockup designer and mind mapping tool, it's the time of code editors: yesterday the Mozilla Labs announced Bespin, a online web-based collaborative code editor.It's still a very…