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MIX 09 Sessions Video Podcast RSS for iPod & Zune Available Here

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:59:25 GMT

Thanks to Mike Swanson who posted a friendly list to click and choose, a few minutes with Excel, LINQ and C#. Here I give you the RSS feeds (divided in chunks of 50 items per feed) to the MIX videos made available until now.

Live Blogging the MIX 09 Keynote Day 1

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 23:01:13 GMT

Here you can get a hand to a live blogging of the MIX09 keynote for day 1.

Aggregation to downloads from the MIX 09 Releases

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:59:11 GMT

Here is an aggregation of the new bits been released today at mix. enjoy.

To tag or not to tag? IE8 Compatibility mode: when should I care?

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 04:01:02 GMT

Find out how to easily make sure your pages display correctly in IE8

Aggiorno 1.3beta with the all powerful -SMART SEARCH and REPLACE

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:31:02 GMT

Aggiorno now has a very powerful SMART SEARCH and REPLACE. Just like a Find & Replace that understands and takes into consideration markup while working.

Silverlight 2 final bits are out. come get them!

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:22:01 GMT

Just as I blogged earlier, Microsoft went public today with the final bits for their Rich Internet Platform, Silverlight 2.0, and well here the bits are now out for you to go grab them.

Silverlight 2 out with plans for development support on Mac and Linux

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 02:59:54 GMT

Today Microsoft delivered on the Rich Internet Platform promise and made public its official release of Silverlight 2.0 along with a set of Open Source initiatives that not only will allow us access to a big set of controls source but also the ability to build Silverlight apps outside Visual Studio and even outside of the Windows Platform.

Artinsoft Aggiorno fixes your web pages

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 03:16:02 GMT

On this post Joe Stagner introduces his experiences with Aggiorno, Artinsoft's latest project which automates a lot of time consuming tasks for web developers in the form of web refactorings. From the post "[aggiorno] takes your web page and fixes errors, removes the use of deprecated constructs, restructures your syntax for XHTLM compliance and more."

Aggiorno 1.2 released! Better Performance, IE8 features and more

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 01:01:03 GMT

The guys over at Artinsoft just released a refresh to their aggiorno web assistant tool, from their website "aggiorno represents a new generation of tools for software developers that uses advanced transformational technologies, for turning any existing website into a valid, findable, accessible standards compliant one"... it really is a great tool and totally worth it to check it out.

Accelerators coming to Windows 7

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:00:17 GMT

Accelerators alas IE8 are coming to Microsoft's next OS. To my surprise I found through the leaked photos of Windows 7 that were published yesterday, that such features are enabled in the latest build of Windows which lead me to wonder been able to mash up services right from within my Desktop experience, using the myriad of web services available at the reach of a right click and contextual to my task at hand.

Google Chrome updated to run Silverlight

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 22:46:03 GMT

Chrome latest build was released under the Developer chain, an alternative release cycle which let you update to interim builds of Google's Internet Browser, for testing purposes. On this post you will find an early review of the update which truly is an improvement to the beta release, check it out and get yourself switched to the Dev chain.

Project Rosetta = Where Designers & Developers Come To Play

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 07:19:58 GMT

Today Microsoft went public with Project Rosetta, a web site with a focus on helping developers and designers get up to speed developing Silverlight and WPF applications by taking advantages of the skills they already own.

Google Chrome and Web Standards

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:16:02 GMT

How does the adoption of Google Chrome affect cross browser compatibility? Are web standards a solution? How can I easily move to standard compliant pages?

Silverlight and Flash running on Google Chrome

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 05:08:58 GMT

This is a review on how Flash and Silverlight behave under Google Chrome and a couple of insights on what's there to expect for RIA's under Google's new browser.

The Ubiquity of the Web and the Browser's new role

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:04:04 GMT

With the release of Mozilla's newest boy Ubiquity, Microsoft's Beta 2 incarnation of Internet Explorer 8 last week, and today's announcement of Google Chrome; a lot of talks will sparkle in the cloud wondering what will be the role of the web in the years to come, how standards will play a role in it and what strategy, if any, will the browsers have along these lines... here is a really good insight on what's coming!

How to make my web pages Internet Explorer 8 compatible

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:16:02 GMT

Free tool to make your web pages compatible with IE8 by automating the introduction of the compatibility flag.

IE8 Beta 2 is out and aggiorno express will help you get ready

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:31:02 GMT

Just minutes ago Microsoft released its Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2, the latest public available release of its Internet browser. Getting your sites ready for IE8 don't have to be an impossible task at first, it is as easy as launching the application, selecting the source folder of your web site, deciding where the new web site should be stored, choosing the flag you want to meta tag your pages with and hitting Start! This is a temporal solution while you get your site ready, then u can use aggiorno express as well to remove the tag.

Does Google care about the quality of your markup?

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 02:31:08 GMT

We are always discussing how to improve a page rank. But what about the basics? Does correct or incorrect HTML affect how google ranks a page? This article discusses a few issues that definetely affect your SEO.

Aggiorno, the Italian colleague you've always wanted

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 05:31:09 GMT

Review of the new Aggiorno plugin for Visual Studio 2005 and 2008

MVC Membership with Preview 3

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:01:03 GMT

The MVC Membership Starter Kit has been updated to work with Preview 3 of the ASP.Net MVC framework.

Joe Stagner says you could improve your ASP.NET site one tag at a time

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:46:09 GMT

Microsoft's Opinionated Misfit Geek apparently took a brief look at Aggiorno, a Visual Studio plugin that does some interesting stuff, such as add alternate text to images, update deprecated attributes or fix tag structure for XHTML compliance. Come take a look!

Nikhilk Kothari's site (almost) made XHTML valid

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:16:03 GMT

I decided to try and make good old Nikhilk Kothari's personal site a valid one. I didn't have access to the source code, so all changes were made on the rendered ASP.NET. Why Nikhilk? I don't know, I guess I just like his web site! Short and entertaining video.

Web standards VS add-in beta version out

Sat, 03 May 2008 04:46:03 GMT

Aggiorno is an add-in for Visual Studio that can swallow horrible non-validating markup and help you make an ASP.NET site web standards compliant in a couple of minutes. Beta 1 has just been released, so you might want to give it a try and send some suggestions to the development team.