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ASP.NET MVC Beta1 in a few weeks and v1 by end of year

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:01:07 GMT

A tweet in the morning, straight from Remix08 UK, where ScottGu is doing a presentation on ASP.NET MVC: ScottGu says feature complete MVC beta "in a few weeks". final v1 by end of year

No GoLive required to use ASP.NET MVC in production

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:31:03 GMT

ASP.NET MVC EULA allows its usage in live operating environment, so it can be used in production

First Thoughts on Wrox Beginning ASP.NET MVC

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:16:02 GMT

Simone Chiaretta writes about the new Wrox book that he and Keyvan Nayyeri are writing and is entitled Beginning ASP.NET MVC. This book targets beginner ASP.NET MVC developers.

The most important quality of a developer: Self-criticism

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:16:02 GMT

I think an awful lot of creation is made out of, also, the self-criticism of a developer, and very often I think probably what makes one seem better than another his that his critical sense is more acute. It may not be that he is more gifted in any way but just that he has a better critical sense.

Italian ALT.NET miniconf: small in size, high in value

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:16:02 GMT

Yesterday there was the first ALT.NET meeting in Italy: here some impressions on it

Italian Silverlight Competition: no go

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:31:02 GMT

NO application submitted to the Italian Competition (and looking at all other sites I counted at most 10 applications submitted in the whole European competition). What does this mean?

First ALT.NET (mini)conference in Italy

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:16:05 GMT

The first alt.net event in italy

Random thoughts after one week of Mac

Sun, 06 Jan 2008 23:16:02 GMT

All those thoughts led to a consideration: an OS as good as the applications that run on it. An the more the apps, the higher the probability that there is a great app for your needs. This is true for Windows, but a little bit less true for OS X: probably because there are less developers willing to develop on the Mac, and I guess it's because the horrible Objective-C needed to develop native Mac Apps.

.NET Ajax Survey results

Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:31:02 GMT

I just published the results of the Ajax survey... and the winner is...

ASP.NET Ajax usage floats around 35%

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:16:02 GMT

Some stats around the usage of Ajax in the development community

Sick of Opera

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:16:05 GMT

Simone provides some insite and opinion on the Opera open letter.

An ALT.NET group is born in Italy

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:01:02 GMT

Yesterday an ALT.NET group is born in Italy with the following Manifesto: "The ALT.NET philosophy can be seen as the "quest for happiness". Follow this philosophy means being free to use the tools and approaches that work best, means being agile, means learning new things, means enjoying yourself".

2007 Opensource Pumpkin

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:16:09 GMT

2005 was DNN, 2006 was Subtext: who is going to be 2007 OpenSource Pumpink?

How to refresh an UpdatePanel from javascript

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 05:46:02 GMT

I thought that updating an UpdatePanel from javascript was one of the most frequently asked question about ASP.NET Ajax, but apparently it was not, so here it is a solution I came out with

What convinced me to adopt a (kind of) Test Driven Design approach

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 05:01:01 GMT

If you are still reluctant to write more tests for you applications because you think it's a waste of time, here is the motivation that convinced me

Rss To BlogML

Mon, 11 Jun 2007 07:16:01 GMT

Simone Chiaretta publishes some code demonstrating how to export any RSS feed to the BlogML format.