Sir Edmund Hillary died today

It's a sad news for all Kiwis and mountain climber worldwide: today Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to climb Mt. Everest, died today at the age of 88.All the words of the World will not be enough to…

2007 year's book and Top 5 post

Already 10 days are gone in 2008 and I just realized I didn't have time to write a post looking back at what happened during last year: 15 days before the beginning of 2007 I quit the job for the…

How to query a XPath doc that has a default namespace

I just spent a few hours banging my head against a XPath query that didn't return the node I was trying to select using the right xpath string: to make a long story short, if your XML document has a…

A funny picture from my camera blogged with Ecto

Here is a funny picture I just took off my digital camera: all my ice climbing tools, hanging drying with my clothes This is also a test of Ecto 3 beta: after my post of yesterday about my thoughts…

Random thoughts after one week of Mac

It's now a week since I started using my Mac and I wanted to share some random thoughts: The MacBook trackpad... WOW... it's the way trackpad should be: if configured correctly you can…

Tips for switching from Win to a Mac

If you are like me and just bought a Mac coming from ages of Windows you might be having an hard time loosing all your habits and learning to walk again. Today I found a reference to a post of one…

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Last year I wished an Happy Christmas kiwi style, and this year it will be: MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! I'll be going ice climbing for this Christmas Holidays, so... see you next year.…

.NET Ajax Survey results

A few days ago Ajaxian published the results of a survey about the usage of Ajax among web developers, but since it was too generic for my taste I decided to make one targeted only to .NET…

Cinema Display + MacBook = coolest desk ever

This is how I spent the evening: unboxing the boxes, cleaning up the mess on my desk, connecting all cables and looking for a good position for the display and the MacBook.I also took some pictures of…