CodeClimber

I just read an article by Jeff "CodingHorror" Atwood about a comparison between Software Projects and Rock Climbing. As someone might have guessed from my domain and from the logo of my blog, I'm a…

Apple and EMI just announced that the iTunes store will be selling EMI music in AAC format without DRM.Jobs already expressed his feelings about DRM a few months ago, and now, with the partnership of…

Here I am blogging from my laptop again.Yesterday I formatted the disks and reinstalled XP and today, as soon I came back from work, I launched all the various updates, and while I'm writing this post…

Web 2.0... maybe things have been written about that topic... but why reading pages when you can watch a video? Here are 2 nice video that are trying to explain what Web 2.0 is about: That video is…

Due to my recent problems with the laptop, I'm going to rebuild my laptop from scratch:delete the partitions, format the disk, reinstall XP, and then all the program I use (mainly Visual Studio,…

A few months ago, while still working on websites with millions of users per day, Luigi and I spent a bad evening trying to debug the cause of a sudden increase in the CPU time of our live servers. In…

Yesterday after work I was running on Oriental Parade, and I thinking about all the iThings my wife and I have. I've got a black iPod Nano 2Gb 1G, Daniela has a green iPod Nano 4Gb 2G, and we also…

Do you want to go from Madison, WI, USA to Milano? Why don't you have a swim across the Ocean? Sounds silly? Well, these are the directions that Google Map is suggestions to go from any place in the…

As part of my new job as Chief Software Architect here in Calcium, one of my task is setting up a "state of the art" build/testing environment so that the various developers working on the project…

<asp:BoundField DataField="data"      HeaderText="Data" SortExpression="data"     DataFormatString="{0:d}" />Why does this line of code (ehm... markup) always render the string "27/03/2007 0.00.00" as…