MacBook Pro vs CodingHorror-Hanselman rig

In the last 2 months Scott Hanselman and Jeff Atwood built the "ultimate developer rig". Probably you all are also readers of Scott's and Jeff's blog so I'm not going to repeat all the specs (here is…

Zero downtime guaranteed: Priceless

I was looking on my hosting's control panel to see if they allowed some configuration of the Expires Header or the ETags to improve my YSlow score and I found a new service that WH4L offers to user…

Just passed the 70-536 MCTS exam

A bit later then what I planned 6 months ago, today I just passed 70-536: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 - Application Development Foundation.I passed with 806 with a passing score of 700, but making a…

My last day at work

Tomorrow (or today if you are reading it on Friday 3rd August) is not really my last day at work, but it is the last day on my computer in Calcium office in Wellington, so I'll have to delete all…

How to debug XmlHttpRequest with Firebug

I've been using Firebug since a few months and I really love it: it allows you to inspect the HTML, to look at the CSS applied to an element and where each single attribute has been set, to visualize…

Hacking Google Analytics

Last week the old version of Google Analytics was dismissed and the only available UI is the new version, which is great, much more user friendly, but misses 2 features I used a lot: Today users by…

Simone vNext

Since more than a few readers and community fellows (both Italian and Kiwi) send me emails and IMs asking what I am going to do next I think it's better to answer them all with a blog post. So here is…

Hairdressers Expedition on Everest

Back in the '72, the Monty Python's Flying Circus had this sketch about a fictitious climbing expedition by International Hairdressers. This was a comedy show, but how long before the holy…

Google in Maori

[July 25rd, 2008] UPDATE: Google Māori gone live: www.google.com/intl/mi[July 23rd, 2008] UPDATE: Google Māori to go live on July 24th.Seems like Google is working to create a Maori version of their…