Windows Media Center Development

Two years I developed, for the company I worked for in Milano, a video news website that runs inside the Windows Media Center, in the Italian spotlight section. The site is an Hosted HTML Application:…

Manage categories and tags of your blog

Blogging engines don't allow a quick way to change categories, or to add tags to many posts at the same time, so managing your old posts can be a lengthy process.A friend of mine, Marco De Sanctis,…

To www or not to www?

When I started this blog back in December I advertised it as www.codeclimber.net.nz, but given the fact that Subtext always strips the www out of the domain name when building internal urls, my blog…

String to Enum

This might seems a pretty trivial problem, but every time I've to get an Enum given its name I forgot how to do it, and I've to look for it on Google. So, is there a better way to remember something…

Mac OS X Leopard Final Candidate and Office:mac2008

With October approaching, Apple released to the developers subscribed to the early access program a build that is said to be the first in the Release Candidate cycle, aiming at the Golden Master build…

Subtext security patch

While I was leaving for Barcelona to visit a friend and to enjoy Les Festes de la Mercè, a user of Subtext found a security problem in our integration with the WYSIWYG editor FCKeditor. And only one…

Yet another active community member joins Microsoft

After Scott Hanselman, Peli, Alex James and a lot more other active community member and opensource developers, also Phil Haack, founder of Subtext, is going to join Microsoft as Senior Program…

Exploiting Multi-Core Processors

As we all know the chip industry changed it's approach to performances increment: we will not see 10Ghz processors (not even 5Ghz ones), but now we have duo-core, quad-core and 8-core or 16-core…

Yet another iPod Nano Video (3G) unboxing gallery

Last Tuesday, for my birthday, 11th September, I received a gift from my wife: the new iPod Nano Video (3G) Red. Less then a week after it has been presented to the World by Steve Jobs.So, even if not…