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I’m very sad to hear that a very big Italian ASP.NET portal went down, together with other “normal” e-commerce sites, because its hosting provider, a small hosting company managed by the Italian IIS…

Mindscape, the cool software agency based in Wellington (NZ) that had the office in the same building where I worked for Calcium, just released the second version of their domain modeling framework,…

Last summer, after coming back from NZ I did quite a few job interviews before deciding to go and work for Avanade, and one of them was with the Fusion4Energy EU agency in Barcelona. The process on…

I think I never saw a BSOD since my Win2000 desktop, but today it happened 3 times in less then 5 hours.And it always happened when I was scrolling data tables from inside SQL Server Management…

Yesterday I delivered the first of the 3 presentations on ASP.NET MVC I'll be delivering in less then a month. It was also my first webcast ever and I'd like to share my impressions on the presenter…

No official announcement yet, but the ReSharper 4.0 Nightly Build page is showing the first build marked as stable and with the status "Beta Candidate". The build number is 804.Off to downloading it:…

Yet another friend of mine is writing a book. After Keyvan with his "Professional Visual Studio Extensibility", today Ivan Porto Carrero announced his book IronRuby in Action.It will be published by…

Validators are a great part of the ASP.NET framework: they provide a standardized and easy way to add validation to form fields. But even if the framework provides different kinds of validators, there…

Spring arrived, days are getting longer and I started jogging after work again (of course, with my Nike+iPod gear).I also found out that Vito Arconzo, a .NET developer in Italy, also started running…

A month ago a popular CSS blog asked: "What is your Javascript library of choice?" Yesterday, after having received more than 1600 answers, he published the results. The winner is clearly jQuery,…