Which is faster? Flash or Silverlight?
The answer is: it depends. Flash/Flex is faster when it comes to graphic rendering, but Silverlight is faster when it comes to pure computation speed.There are two speed benchmarks for RIA…
Starting another type of climbing: biking on the Sun Route
<p>I do rock climbing, mountain climbing, ice climbing, but this year I started another type of climbing: <strong>road climbing</strong>, that is, going up a mountain pass with a bicycle. And that's how I spent my summer ‘08 holidays: along the Sun Route.</p> <p>If you are interested in the trip report, <a href="http://codeclimber.net.nz/archive/2008/08/30/starting-another-type-of-climbing-biking-on-the-sun-route.aspx">continue reading</a>.</p>…
Hooked up on HundredPushups
Like the drop carves the stone, Rob Conery’s tweets about his pushups convinced me to try the HundredPushups program. What is this program about: you do a startup test, with this results you start a…
ASP.NET MVC Preview5 released
Keeping on with the 6 weeks release plan, the ASP.NET MVC team quietly release P5 of ASP.NET MVC on Codeplex. Some changes happened: the IViewEngine now is responsible of finding the view, not…
Data Structure and Algorithms eBook
After dark years, seems like good things are coming out from the Italian .NET community lately: the latest one is the free eBook on Data Structures and Algorithms wrote by Granville Barnett and the…
.NET vs PHP in the Enterprise comics strip
Far from me to start yet another religious war, but on the blog a friend from the Italian User Group I found a very amusing cartoon about .NET and PHP in the enterprise (made by David Betz in February…
No GoLive required to use ASP.NET MVC in production
I might be the only that missed that, but today a discussion on the internal Avanade mailing list brought to my attention an interesting fact: the ASP.NET MVC framework is not as all other Microsoft…
Images hosted on Webhost4Life are not displayed inside RSS feeds
A month ago, when I first updated my blog to Subtext 2.0, a reader commented that: Images embedded in RSS are not correctly linked I thought it was due to some problems with the new version of…
Testing RSS advertising
If you subscribed to my blog through an RSS reader you will notice an advertisement at the bottom of this post. That’s because I’m testing the RSS Room of the The Lounge advertising network: it’s…
Look Ma, I'm on a book cover
Well, not yet, but hopefully soon.Which book cover am I talking about? It’s book I’m writing together with Keyvan, about ASP.NET MVC, for Wrox.The book title will be “Beginning ASP.NET MVC”.You way…