Climbing the cliffs of web development, on .NET
The latest release of ASP.NET MVC had a weird bug: with Visual Studio 2008 SP1, when you open any view page, Visual Studio just vanishes, with no error dialog displayed. The Application log contains…
Just listening to TheGu announcing the official release of Silverlight 2.0 RTM together with the full stack of development tools, including an Express version of the tool, and Soyatec, a plugin to…
Due to a new (*) IT security policy of my company, this weekend I had to wipe out my XP installation and install a BitLocker capable operating system and I had to decide whether to install Vista or…
This afternoon I received an email with a strange subject: "Congratulations MVP Microsoft 2009!".At first I thought the usual spam email that just got better, but then I saw the post of the Italian…
A few weeks ago, thanks to a tweet from Thomas Freudenberg, I discovered bikemap.net, a Web2.0 web application that allows users to post their favorite bike routes and track their trips, mapping them…
Well, not as the Guano Apes in Big in Japan, but, tonight our (Keyvan’s and mine) book, Beginning ASP.NET MVC, went for the first official public display at a INETA user group meeting in Banjaluka,…
A tweet in the morning, straight from Remix08 UK, where ScottGu is doing a presentation on ASP.NET MVC: ScottGu says feature complete MVC beta "in a few weeks". final v1 by end of year Then the…
This is not another humor post, but just a comparison between the searches on the terms C# and Ruby using Google Trends. Apart from the number of searches on the term C# which are double the ones…
As every year on September 11th I’m getting one year older… and today I’m becoming 34.My 33rd year has been an exciting one from the professional stand point, and pretty good from the open-air ones as…
Andrew Peters, one of the smart guys I met during my 9 month of life in New Zealand, is joining Microsoft, as member of the team that will work on the Entity Framework. I’m pretty sure that his…