Microsoft Project Code Named “Velocity”: a practical overview
Wednesday, December 31 2008 - velocity, cache - 0 comments
What Velocity is Velocity is a Microsoft project, actually in CTP2, its goal is to provide a distributed, performing and highly available cache to our applications. Velocity could be integrated in Web and Desktop applications as well, thanks to a simple api is possible to perform basic operations like...
Merry Christmas!
Thursday, December 25 2008 - 0 comments
Hope you'll spend these days with people you love! Andrea
70-502 Passed!
Friday, December 19 2008 - 70-502, certification, wpf - 0 comments
Yes! Today I've passed the exam 70-502: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Windows Presentation Foundation. To get ready for the exam, I used the official MS Press Training kit, on which I also wrote a review here Now it's time to take a break... just until the end of January, at leas for certifications....
Velocity Log Sink settings
Saturday, December 13 2008 - velocity, log-sink, fileeventsink, sinkparam, web-config - 0 comments
During my tests with Velocity Session Provider, after publishing the demo application on a virtual machine-based test farm, I faced to this error. Access to the path 'c:\windows\system32\inetsrv\CacheClientLog.log' is denied Reading the CTP2 Documentation on MSDN Library , I learned that when configuring...
Comparing Cache Frameworks
Sunday, December 07 2008 - cache, velocity - 0 comments
Today while I was studying Velocity Project, I created a feature matrix to compare 3 different cache framework: ASP.Net Cache Enterprise Library 4.0 (Caching Application Block) Velocity CTP2 The feature matrix is a draft and work in progress, here's a preview, click it to enlarge....
Video on 4th December wind storm
Sunday, December 07 2008 - ot - 0 comments
Last week Marcello uploaded a video on the December 4th wind storm that hit Capo S.M. di Leuca . I watched it while I was sitting in the office, reading my morning news. Leuca is my mother's hometown, where all my family spend all summers, it's between 2 seas: Adriatic and Jonian. The harbour was hit...
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 - 3 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...
