What I’ll never get at my current job

A new engineer that comes in gets a new MacPro with dual quad-core CPUs and 12GB of ram and a MacBook Pro. The down side of the whole deal is that you have to choose between two 23’’ or one 30’’ Apple…

How to get a RSS feed of a Subversion repository

Just found via Twitter thanks to Matt Hawley: SubversionFeed.This service takes any SVN repository with anonymous access enabled and transforms it into a RSS feed with the latest 10 changes.I just…

Comparing the backgrounds of web developers

Web developers on ASP.NET have (mostly) a client or client-server background.Web developers on Java have (mostly) a client-server background or a web background.PHP and Ruby and Pyton (and so on) ones…

ASP.NET MVC content aggregator

A few days ago, looking at the referrers to my blog, I found a reference to site I never see before: aspdotnetmvc.com. It’s a really nice content aggregator that collects anything related to ASP.NET…

Microsoft Certified Professional Developer Guide updated

Last year I wrote a post on the steps needed to become a MCPD on the .NET framework version 2.0.Now that the new .NET 3.5 certification track is available I think I need to update it with the new…

Yet another presentation on ASP.NET MVC at DotNetMarche

On Friday I’m delivering my third presentation on ASP.NET MVC in less than one month (actually the 4th because I repeated twice the one I delivered inside Avanade). This time it will be inside the…

How to get up to speed with Team Foundation Server

UPDATE: Thanks to Lorenzo, I fixed a few errors about TFS Licensing. Lately I’ve been designing and implementing the migration of development team from Visual Source Safe, with Excel based bug…

Help set a world record: Firefox 3

One thing you might know about me is that I’m a long time user of Firefox, and than in 2004 I’ve been chosen as “as one of the top 25 most active, energetic and productive sfx community members” (read…

What happened at the Italian ALT.NET conference

Yesterday it was the day of the second UGIALT.NET conference in Milano: almost 40 people attending, 8 different speakers/moderators and a lot of interaction (and a free lunch courtesy of the sponsor…