Suffering of Pre Mix Envy

Today a new psychological condition is born: Pre Mix Envy. A new condition for developers who want to be in Vegas but can't.It was coined by Chris Hayuk, a British .NET developer and Silverlight…

ASP.NET MVC in Action by Jeffrey Palermo

Yesterday I noticed on Jeffrey's blog that the book he is writing on the ASP.NET MVC framework is available now as Early Access Program. At the moment the first 4 chapters (first as in first to be…

Italian ALT.NET miniconf: small in size, high in value

Yesterday I went to the first conference of the recent born UGIALT.net usergroup. It was my first time at a OpenSpace conference and I really like it.We talked about ASP.NET MVC, about UnitTesting,…

European Silverlight Competition: the winners

Last week I announced the winners of the competition I took part in, the Polish competition. Today I just read about the winners of the continental competition on the INETA website (scroll down for…

I'm a (DotNet)Slacker on the ASP.NET MVC Framework

Today my first article on DotNetSlackers just got published. It's an introduction to the ASP.NET MVC framework that was released as part of the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview: it contains an overview…

Silverlight Competition: And the winner is...

A few days ago the list of competitors has been published, and today Marcin published the winners of the Polish Silverlight competition: Iteration burn-down chart: a burn-down chart with nice…

Resharper 4.0 EAP: Are you geek enough?

Ivan just IM-ed me with a link: http://www.jetbrains.net/confluence/display/ReSharper/ReSharper+4.0+Nightly+BuildsI've been waiting for a C# 3.0 compatible version since I installed VS2008 back in…

When the case matters: VS2008 hot-fix bug

A few days ago I installed the VS 2008 Web Development Hot-Fix Roll-Up but yesterday I found a strange bug: when I wanted to create a "new web site" I had an empty dialog, with no project templates…

Silverlight Competition: here are the participants

Even if the Italian edition of the Silverlight INETA challenge was closed for lack of participants I still managed to submit my small Silverlight application: Marcin Celej, the organizer of the Polish…