Problem with Spam? Waegis to the rescue

One of the problem of having a blog with a Google PageRank higher than 3 is that you get flooded by a storm of spam. Be it comment spam or trackback spam it's a waste of server resources and, if not…

ASP.NET 3.5 + VS2008 SP1 beta

Probably you already read this announcement somewhere else in the net, so I'll not replicate the news here.What excites me the most are mainly two things: Part of the ASP.NET MVC framework are…

Second Italian ALT.NET conference

After the "small success" of the first UGIALT.net mini conference in February, UGIALT.net is organizing another conference in June. The second UGIALT.net conference will take place on Saturday…

The Panic Button

I use FeedDemon as my desktop newsreader and today, while looking around the UI I found a strange menu item: "Hit the Panic Button!". The button doesn't have the "..." that usually marks menu…

iPhone to come to a shop near you... with Vodafone

In Italy everybody was excited to hear that TIM (the mobile company of the once telecommunication monopolist Telecom Italia) would be selling the new 3G iPhone starting from this summer. But today…

VMware Fusion 2.0: now with multiple displays

Since I installed Win2008 on my Mac I never really used it: turning on my company's laptop was less painful than the usability problems that both VMware and Parallels have. VMware was not working…

2 new Italian ALT.NET blogs

Two of the guys that co-founded with me the Italian UGIALT.net usergroup started blogging in English: Emanuele DelBono - Plastic/blog Claudio Maccari - TDD developerFor those who read Italian…

Finally someone pronounced my name correctly

Last week Craig Shoemaker published the 50th show of this great Polymorphic Podcast: ASP.NET MVC Resources.Around 4:15 he says hello to me and thanks me for pointing him to some resources, and doing…

Where I'm going to talk this Spring

This year it's going to be a busy spring for me: April 26th/27th: Loci - Evoluzione generativa: Aurora - an art exhibition where there I presented a short video I made with Processing (on Vimeo 2…