Tech-Ed EMEA 2008 - Day #1
Tuesday, November 11 2008 - tech-ed-emea-2008 - 0 comments
Today I was free of Hands on labs shift but anyway, I was in the room almost all morning. I bought these two books at the bookstore: Here's two pictures of the Hands on labs The keynote Finally at the "Ask the experts" booth This is my first MS event outside Italy and also my first experience with Hands...
exam 71-564 (future 70-564) registration available
Wednesday, November 05 2008 - exam-70-564, 71-564, certification - 0 comments
Good news: the exam 70-564 beta (actually called 71-564, Designing and Developing ASP.NET Applications Using the Microsoft® .NET Framework 3.5) is available for registration starting today, read more here . Last 8th September I passed the 70-562 , if everything works I'll get the MCPD certification before...
PDC 2008 OSLO
Wednesday, October 29 2008 - pdc-2008, oslo - 0 comments
I watched the recorded session "A Lap Around OSLO" during my lunch break, a sentence wraps most of its content : "Oslo enables people a more approachable way of developing systems" Must see it, because is about how we (hope me too) will model tomorrow's systems and services. Great...
Ouch! It was my workout
Monday, October 27 2008 - my-life - 0 comments
Last weekend I did enough physical activity and today I have some post-exercise pain, these were my sets: Saturday morning 1h 15' gym session with: - Quick rope warm up - Pectoral and triceps circuit bench press pectoral machine flies on 30° bench crossover (cables) - Dorsal, back and biceps circuit...
Book review: 70-502 Training Kit by MS Press
Saturday, October 25 2008 - book-review, wpf, 70-502, exam - 0 comments
Author: Matthew A. Stoecker Pages: 524 ISBN10: 0735625662 ISBN13: 978-0735625662 URL: http://www.microsoft.com/mspress/books/12485.aspx This book is designed for developers who plan to get the MCTS certification on WPF. It covers all foundamentals needed to build client applications with WPF. WPF changes...
New official .net logo: "wave"
Saturday, October 25 2008 - net, logo, the-wave - 0 comments
Reading Scott Hanselman's post I've learned that, during PDC 2008, the 8-year old .net logo was updated. I think "the wave" is very cool! Read more on why did they do it? Now It's time to update all business cards too, and since it were printed in 2004, I might decide to design a new one with...
Executing async tasks in Asp.net
Thursday, October 23 2008 - asp-net, async-task, iasyncresult, registerasynctask - 0 comments
In this article I want to show 3 different ways to deal with long running tasks in Asp.net. If such a task must be initiated from an Asp.net web page, the thread that is serving the page request is bound to the task until it completes or a timeout occurs. Asp.net and .net framework offer different ways...
New upcoming book on Silverlight 2
Tuesday, October 21 2008 - silverlight-2-0, book - 0 comments
John Papa has posted the table of contents of his new upcoming (expected on December 2008) book: "Data and services with Silverlight 2" I've read his post and was attracted by this sentence: "The book assumes a basic knowledge of .NET development and XAML as well as Silverlight 2 basics. The style used...
In Production!
Tuesday, October 21 2008 - my-job - 0 comments
A year ago, I joined a product team working in an online bank. The project was very challenging due It's schedule, features and requirements, but today we (the team) finally reached the target: It's in production since this early morning for the italian market and customers. This year for me was full...
My Tech-Ed agenda is ready
Friday, October 17 2008 - tech-ed - 0 comments
Here's my agenda, built on the fly this afternoon: I've also marked a dozen of alternative tracks, in the case I'll decide to move from one to another scheduled for the same time. Topics are very different, but I want to focus on visual studio 10, ADO.net entity framework and synchronization services...
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