MacBook unpacking: -1

Yesterday evening, after work, I went to the Apple store in Milano to buy the 20" Cinema Display, the USB keyboard and the wireless mouse, and today, just before going to work, the TNT delivery man…

Who said IE doesn't support Acid2?

Someone filed a formal complaint to the EU because IE didn't support the web standard, in particular didn't pass the Acid2 test. Drum roll please.... IE8 change num 149329 now renders the Acid2 face.…

ASP.NET Ajax usage floats around 35%

UPDATE: I setup a survey focused only on .NET development here. Ajaxian, blog focused on everything related to Ajax development and JS libraries, last week announced a survey about the state of Ajax…

Ajax usage among .NET developers

UPDATE: The survey is closed and I just published the results of the survey: .NET Ajax Survey results. Given the results of Ajaxian's survey about the state of the usage in the web development…

Sick of Opera

I never really understood the business model behind Opera, a company that is selling a browser when everybody else in the World is giving it for free, both because it's included in the OS (IE and…

Web Development Workshop 2008

Tomorrow I'm going at the first meeting organized by the Italian .NET UserGroup UGIdotNET since I came back to Italy this August, and I'm super excited about this: first I'm going to see in person on…

One year of blogging

A friend just made me notice that yesterday it was exactly one year from my first real post on Codeclimber. With all the excitement for tomorrow event and for the new Mac I missed this important day.…

How to install ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview

If you are like me, and don't read the instructions and the readme files, you might encounter a few problems in getting the ADO.NET designer to work.To enable the ADO.NET designer you need to install…

How to install a Windows Mobile emulator

This might seem a bit old topic, but every time I set up a new machine for developing for windows mobile I always forget where to find the emulator, which one to choose and how to set it up. Today I…

My definitive color VS color schema

I spent some time in the last months playing around with various color schema and finally decided that the original port of the Vibrant Ink schema to VS is still the one that most appeal to my eyes.…