Per-project Visual Studio Settings

Working on both "real", personal and opensource project sometimes I've to face the problem of managing different visual studio settings based on the project I'm working on. For my personal projects I…

New blogger moves to SubText

Igor Damiani, a very active community member, yesterday made a very brave choice, well, 2 choices: he left the safe place which was the UGIdotNET community, and moved to his own domain he decided to…

Managing application configurations in development teams

A common scenario in team development, but even more common in open source projects, is that developers working on the same project can have different setup environment: different connection strings…

Last episode of my slow laptop saga

Finally my laptop is back working smoothly again... Everything started more than one month ago, when I noticed that my laptop was a lot slower then what it should be, and I found out that it was a…

CC.NET Monitor for Vista Sidebar 0.7

UPDATE: the latest version of that gadget is now 0.9.5. Read more on the 0.9.5 release notes.I just released the new version of my CC.NET Monitor for Vista Sidebar (why is everybody giving such long…

How to play at work and keep your job

Luigi just sent me the link to site of the "First Desktop Cloaking Device": Stealth Switch. StealthSwitchâ„¢ is a microprocessor based computer privacy device. StealthSwitchâ„¢ uses patent pending…

CC.NET Monitor on Windows Live Gallery

I just went through the process of submitting my CC.NET Monitor for Vista Sidebar to the Windows Live Gallery. Here is the link to the CC.NET Monitor page. Technorati tags: microsoft live, ccnet…

Silverlight vs Flash

Michael Schwarz, the creator of Ajax.NET, the first .NET library to enable Ajax, just wrote on his blog a nice feature to feature comparison of MS Silverlight and Flash/Flex:Rich Media Platform…

CC.NET Monitor for Vista Sidebar 0.6

UPDATE: The latest version of CC.NET Monitor for Vista Sidebar is v0.9.5: read more about it on the CC.NET Monitor for Vista Sidebar v0.9.5 release notes.Yesterday I released the first version (number…