A new kid on the Blog

Andrew Butel, the CTO of my current company Calcium, has finally started his own blog: Business Savvy Software. The subtitle of the blog is "The crossover between business and software" and the focus…

Ride the Lightning!

This post is not about a concert of a Metallica cover band, the announcement of the next event for the local .NET user group in Wellington. As all years, the first event is a lightning event, which…

Eating My Own Dog Food - Again (build 73)

Three days ago I deployed Subtext build 72... In the last days I included into the 1.9 branch a few other code changes: New Feature - Category/ies Displayed In Post New Feature - Google SiteMap…

Photocasting with FeedDemon

A few months ago, following the advice of my dear friend Janky, I switched from RSSBandit to FeedDemon. I couldn't stand anymore that an rss reader was using more memory than Visual Studio Team Suite…

Eating My Own Dog Food - Subtext v1.9.4.x

As Steve already did, I'm eating my own dog food, too...So this blog now is running on Subtext 1.9.4. How can you be sure I'm not kidding you?Just have a look at the header section of this page: it…

CruiseControl.NET 1.2 Released

Owen Rogers sent the announcement on the mailinglist a few minutes ago. CCNET has a new version: 1.2. Here are some of the new features: - automatic checkout from svn and cvs (there are performance…

Ice Climbing

Unfortunately I cannot do ice climbing here in Wellington (well... I cannot do real rock climbing either in Wellington).Today I was looking for some climbing videos on YouTube and I just found this…

ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 released!!

It's official, ASP.NET AJAX (formerly known as ATLAS) has just been released. Everybody is speaking about it: ScottGu, Nikhil Kothari. Here are the official download link, the link to the docs (with…

Community Credit prizes

After a lot of strange things happened at various post and custom office in Italy, I finally received in New Zealand the prizes I won last year taking part in the Community Credit website competition:…

Two SP1 in two days

A month after my first try, yesterday I tried again. I started at 8:30pm stopping all useless programs (RSS Readers, Outlook, Skype, Gtalk, MSN Messenger and all that sort of stuff). Then I stopped…