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The Book Writing Process

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:31:02 GMT

Simone Chiaretta writes about the writing process of a book, especially a programming book, based on his own experiences with Wrox when working on Beginning ASP.NET MVC.

Which is faster? Silverlight or Flash?

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 08:46:11 GMT

Benchmarks of RIA performances: Flash/Flex is faster when it comes to graphic rendering, but Silverlight is faster when it comes to pure computation speed.

ASP.NET MVC P5 released on Codeplex

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:16:12 GMT

Keeping on with the 6 weeks release plan, the ASP.NET MVC team quietly release P5 of ASP.NET MVC on Codeplex.

ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 links collection

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:16:03 GMT

A list of all the posts talking about the new features and changes coming with the interim ASP.NET MVC P4

How to get up to speed with Team Foundation Server

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:01:03 GMT

A collection of links about TFS, from evaluation to installation to customization and maintenance.

ReSharper 4 approaching beta status

Tue, 20 May 2008 16:16:05 GMT

No official announcement yet, but the ReSharper 4.0 Nightly Build page is showing the first build marked as stable and with the status "Beta Candidate".

How to manage ASP.NET validation from Javascript with jQuery

Wed, 14 May 2008 08:01:02 GMT

This article outlines how to enable and disable ASP.NET client side validation from Javascript using jQuery

Second Italian ALT.NET conference

Wed, 07 May 2008 15:31:03 GMT

After the "small success" of the first UGIALT.net mini conference in February, UGIALT.net is organizing another conference in June. As for the other conference there will not be a fixed agenda, but the event will be a day-long discussion on the topics decided by the participants, probably developing a small app to focus on the various stages of the development.

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.

Let's tag all ASP.NET MVC contents with aspnetmvc

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:01:08 GMT

I saw using a lot of different tags for tagging ASP.NET MVC related contents: why don't we just standardize the way we do it and tag with aspnetmvc?

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

Testable WPF with MVC

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 12:46:02 GMT

Great Article. Using MVC design pattern with WPF.

ASP.NET MVC Link collection

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:31:02 GMT

Links to get started fast with Microsoft MVC.

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?

Chaining the C# ?? Operator

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:01:02 GMT

The C# 2.0 ?? operator makes it easy to assign a default value to nulls. Nothing new here, but did you know that you can also chain the operator to quickly check many value and find the first non-null value?

First ALT.NET (mini)conference in Italy

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:16:05 GMT

The first alt.net event in italy