What is a Mac doing in a Die Hard movie?

Today I just stumbled upon a trailer of the 4th episode of the Die Hard saga (Live Free or Die Hard) and it seemed to me that one of the actor was the guy that personifies the Mac in the Get a Mac…

Another mountain addicted coder blogs on Subtext

This morning, going through my weekly ego-search, and I found a blog by Simon Philip, a snowboarder and .NET developer living in Scotland. We share a lot things: same name, passion for mountains, same…

How to persist settings in a Subtext plugin

Almost one week after the Introduction to Subtext plugins, I just added to the subtextplugins website a new document: How to mange plugin settings. This article explains the differences between the 3…

SQL Server 2005 password complexity enforcing

Today I was installing the developer version of SQL Server 2005 on my laptop and when the wizard asked me for the SA password I entered: password. I got a message saying that the password wasn't…

CruiseControl.NET 1.3 released

I just got the announcement about the latest release of CruiseControl.NET 1.3. The new version is now build with NET 2.0, so it needs the NET 2.0 redistributable to run. The main feature are: support…

Rhino Mocking NHibernate Expressions

A few days ago I wrote a post about how to test your business layer using Rhino Mocks. Last time I set an expectation on an method that accepts a normal int. Today I'll show how to work on something…

Gran Paradiso marketing material: spot the difference

Today the Firefox marketing team released some marketing material to promote the next release of Firefox 3, codename Gran Paradiso, but I think they didn't get the real meaning of the reference to…

Twitter Publisher for CC.NET

Thomas Freudenberg, an active blogger and CS MVP from Germany, just released a very useful CC.NET publisher task: Twitter publisher. I joined the Twitter band-wagon more or less one month ago, and I'm…