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How many times did you need a property to be read-only for the users of your API, but also you needed that property to be populated by your own data access layer? It happened to me many times, and I…

In the last month I started working again a lot on CruiseControl and build processes. Another quick tip I think it's interesting to share is how to have the version number of the code you are building…

The Italian government just released the new site to present Italy to the World: www.italia.itIt was developed by IBM, at the cost of 45.000.000 euro (90.000.000 NZ$) of public money, and they took 3…

A quite common task during the build process of an application is to change the configuration file with settings specific to test in on the testing environment or to release the product to customers.…

I really don't understand the reason of all the excitement behind the offline-mode of Firefox 3.0. The developer working on that feature, Chris Double (he is a NZ guy), just released a proof of…

Apple released a bunch of new ads. (well, probably some time ago) The best is the one about the new User Access Control of Vista: If you are reading this with a newsreader that doesn't support video…

You installed the webapplication project update or installed VS2005 SP1, and you developed your web application using with that kind of project. Now you want to build it on a build server using…

After raising a swarm of hornets with the new Community Server 2007 license model (and I was among that hornets, too) and all the feedback received on the official forum, Rob Howard has just announced…

InformationWeek has a nice article titled: How To Tell The Open Source Winners From The Losers It's a long 6 printed pages article, not read it completely, but at page 2 there is nice chart with 9…

A month ago FeedBurner unleashed a new very cool feature: Blog Statistics. They integrated into their RSS feed stats also the tracking engine they got when they acquired Blogbeat. For a complete…