ASP.NET MVC

This afternoon, while I was installing for the 4th time this year the Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio 2005, I printed the first post by ScottGu about the new ASP.NET MVC framework.It's a long article…

My first day at Avanade

After a long period in New Zealand and a few months working from home, today I started working in Italy again. I spent the last 3 "sabbatical" weeks doing almost nothing related to programming or IT…

Temporary disabled ping/trackback

Today I was hit by a massive spam attack, both here and on my Italian blog: here I received almost 1000 spam trackback in one day, and on my Italian one I reached the incredible number of 30.000, and…

ARCast meets LightSpeed

I just stumbled upon a video that has just been published on channel9: Ron Jacobs interviewing JB and JD of Mindscape about their domain model framework LightSpeed. Congratulations Mindscape!! At the…

MacBook with Santa Rosa and GMA X3100

There were rumors back in the beginning of October said that Apple was going to update the MacBook around the beginning of November. And as usual, this promptly happened, and the first of November…

An ALT.NET group is born in Italy

Unveiled by one of the founders, yesterday an ALT.NET group is born in Italy (and I'm among the 5 founding members). The main objective of the group is to organize OpenSpace meetings, to fosters…

2007 OpenSource Carved Pumpkin

In 2005, Shaun Walker, founder of DotNetNuke carved the DNN logo in his Halloween pumpkin. Last year, in 2006, I carved into my pumpkin the Subtext submarine. Now with Halloween just a few days…

Web Browser History

Today was a rainy day here in Milano, so decided to do a bit of Autumn cleaning, and throw away all my old and, unfortunately obsolete, programming books. I threw away some DHTML books and some ASP…

Subsonic turns Microsoft

W00t.... Rob "Subsonic" Conery just joined Microsoft, and will make (more or less) Subsonic a high-level API on top of the MVC framework Phil Haack is the PM for. Seems like MS is hiring the cream of…

How to answer to telemarketing phone calls

I already posted on my Italian blog last week, but I think this is great, so wanted to share here on Codeclimber:   Technorati tags: humor…