November 2011
2 posts
Announcing the ASP.NET MVC 3 Release Candidate →
This morning the ASP.NET team shipped the ASP.NET MVC 3 RC (release candidate). You can download it here. ASP.NET MVC 3 is a pretty sweet release, and adds a ton of new functionality and…
Silverlight Questions →
Over the last week there has been a lot of confusion/concern about Silverlight that occurred from an interview given at the PDC conference last week. A few days ago Bob Muglia (President of our…
How Apple Almost Got Microsoft’s Kinect Game... →
In June 2008, on a flight home from Europe to San Francisco, I was given a fascinating demo of some jaw-dropping technology.
I was sitting next Inon Beracha, CEO of Israeli company …
Get Rid of the Splash Screen →
Versions: 2008,2010 Published: 11/5/2010 Code: vstipEnv0046
Does the splash screen make you angry?
Did you know you can suppress it? Just go to the properties of your Visual Studio…
How To check if SSD and TRIM have all windows 7... →
Modificare o Disabilitare il superfetch in Windows... →
Come modificare o disabilitare il superfetch di Windows 7. Un veloce howto su cosa è il superfetch e consigli per la sua modifica – disabilitazione in Windows 7. Il superfetch
October 2010
1 post
Deploying ASP.NET MVC 3 web application to server... →
When I wrote my last posting about jQuery Mobile and ASP.NET MVC. I built my sample application on ASP.NET MVC 3. To try it out with friends I put my application up to my web server where I don’t…
March 2010
7 posts
Some VS 2010 RC Updates (including patches for... →
[In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu] We are continuing to make progress on shipping Visual Studio…
Visual Studio 2008 short cuts →
Note: Cross posted from Vijay Kodali’s Blog. Permalink
I know there are many posts dedicated to this topic. For example, Sara Ford posted about 290 shortcuts on her blog. Check
Microsoft Rolling Out Visual Studio 2010... →
Microsoft offering SKU upgrades, MSDN subscriptions to retail buyers of Visual Studio.
Touching Cloth; Canvas Fu →
Andrew Hoyer shows his canvas Fu with Cloth, a great experiment using nice physics.
What makes this simulation special is the speed at which everything is computed. Javascript (the…
Getting SQL Server 2008 Management Studio Express... →
This morning I found myself in need of the SQL Server management studio on a new box I built a few months ago. So far, I’ve only installed Visual Studio 2010 RC and the SQL Server 2008 Express that…
Ad personam →
Ad personam - Marco Travaglio (33:27)
Guarda tutte le puntate di Passaparola - Diventa fan di Passaparola su Facebook Testo: Buongiorno a tutti, oggi vi racconto qualcosa che…
Movie Monday - March 1 - F-104 Starfighter →
Saturday, February 27th would have been the 100th birthday of Clarence “Kelly” Johnson, leader of Lockheed Skunk Works, who was responsible for the design of iconic aircraft like the SR-71…
February 2010
14 posts
Encrypted Hidden Inputs in ASP.NET MVC →
In this article, Ashic Mahtab shows an elegant, reusable and unobtrusive way in which to persist sensitive data to the browser in hidden inputs and restoring them on postback without needing to…
Bullismo senza privacy →
Contro il bullismo (0:52)
Il fatto: un bambino autistico viene seviziato nel 2006 in un istituto tecnico di Torino da alcuni compagni, il resto della classe non interviene e osserva con…
Guardare la TV via Internet grazie a StreamTorrent →
Basta un semplice software gratuito per poter accedere ai più importanti canali televisivi di tutto il mondo: fra gli altri, ci sono anche BBC, Discovery Channel ed ABC.
StreamTorrent è un…
Video: Windows 7 'My Idea' parody by College Humor →
Oh, if only Microsoft Windows 7 were actually a collection of everybody’s ideas.
Chinese hacker of Internet Explorer, Google ID'd... →
U.S. investigators believe they have identified a hacker who exploited a hole in Microsoft Internet Explorer and gained access to Google’s and other companies’ secure servers, the Financial Times…
Sharpy - an ASP.NET MVC view engine based on... →
Are you also one of those ASP.NET MVC developers who prefer a different view engine than the default Webforms view engine available? You tried Spark, NHaml, …? If you are familiar…
Come risolvere il Cubo di Rubik: un telefono,... →
Incredibile cosa la gente sia in grado di fare! Ormai non c’è più nulla di cui stupirsi, abbiamo visto telefoni in grado di guidare una macchina, di controllare le luci, e molto altro….
ASP.NET MVC 2 RC 2 Released →
Today I’m pleased to announce the availability of Release Candidate 2 for ASP.NET MVC 2 . After receiving feedback from our last release candidate back in December, we decided it would be prudent to…
Back to Basics - Keep it Simple and Develop Your... →
I was working with a friend recently on a side thing they were doing. They wanted to create an “Export” function for some small bit of data and start it from their website. You’d hit a URL after…
ASP.NET MVC 2 (Release Candidate 2) Now Available →
[In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu] Earlier this evening the ASP.NET team shipped ASP.NET MVC…
PDFMyURL Saves Web Sites as PDF Files [PDF] →
Saving something as a PDF file is a great way to preserve it for future reference or for sharing with others, without risking the site changing before you look at it again. PDFMyURL makes it easy…
iPad: le parodie continuano imperterrite - altre... →
Visto l’incredibile successo che ha riscosso la galleria di parodie sull’iPad pubblicata ieri, non potevamo far altro che metterci alla ricerca di ulteriore materiale divertente…
Interview: Mike Matas →
Mike Matas is a very talented 23-year old designer from the United States, currently living in San Francisco. He’s best known for his design work on the original Delicious Library, and working at…
iPad: ancora parodie in 12 immagini →
iPad è senza dubbio il prodotto più controverso che Apple abbia prodotto negli ultimi anni, e in un contesto dove la divisione fra osannatori e detrattori è netta più che mai le parodie…
January 2010
2 posts
Wallbase Helps You Find Fresh Desktop Wallpaper... →
Wallbase catalogs wallpaper bring you over 350,000 unique wallpapers. Take a peek inside to find something new for casual Friday.
Wallbase is a huge database built by scraping the image boards of…
Miguel de Icaza: iPad - Inspirational Hardware →
iPad - Inspirational Hardware
As a software developer, I find the iPad inspirational.
Apple’s iPad is not a new idea. They are not the first ones to think of a tablet and as many blogs have…
September 2009
19 posts
Turn Your Windows 7 PC Into a Wireless Hotspot... →
Everybody’s got a wireless network at home, but if you’ve ever wanted to get your iPod touch, iPhone, or other wireless device connected but all you’ve got is a wired network at work, school,…
XPize Polishes Windows XP's Interface [Downloads] →
Windows: Just because you’re still rocking Windows XP, or you’ve recently picked up a Netbook that zips along nicely with XP installed on it, doesn’t mean you need to miss out on the polished…
Console Appplications in .NET, or Teaching a New... →
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The Best Sounds for Getting Work Done... →
The right kind of sound can relax your mind, hone your focus, drown out distractions, or get you pumped to kill your to-do list. We’ve assembled some research and free resources to help you…
Becoming really rich with C# →
Or maybe not, please do not hold me responsible if you lose money following this system. Having said that, it is my opinion that there are very few concepts that are important in investing. Three…
Helping businesses get into the 2010 web →
It’s been a while since I’ve talked much about building43. Heck, it’s been a while since I’ve blogged that much! But we’ve been busy over on building43 helping businesses get into the modern…
How to Reseed a SQL Server Identity Column →
In SQL Server you can specify a column as an Identity column (ColumnName int IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL) to have SQL Server automatically set the value of this column upon insert by incrementing a seed…
Qizmt – MapReduce On Windows →
A very interesting announcement by the folks at MySpace: Today, we are open-sourcing Qizmt, an internally developed framework for distributed computation created by the Data Mining team here…
Best Name Anagram: trova l'anagramma del tuo nome... →
Purtroppo solo in inglese, ma piuttosto divertente. Best Name Anagram genera appunto un anagramma del proprio nome e cognome cercando di dare un senso al risultato.
Ci ho provato col…
Miguel de Icaza: MonoTouch 1.0 goes live. →
MonoTouch is a commercial product based on Mono and is made up of the following components:
MonoTouch.dll The C# binding to the iPhone native APIs (the foundation classes, Quartz,…
Will Anyone Pay for Anything? : The World : Idea... →
Garage Technology Ventures recently ran a conference called Revenue Bootcamp. The conference opened with a panel of young people ranging fro
ongoing · Where’s the Mobile Biz? →
VIDEO: As long as we're talking about... →
As long as we’re talking about unconventional acceptance speeches, here’s a great one: Jerry Seinfeld won the first ever American Comedian award and used his speech to basically roast the…
Building Scalable Databases: Denormalization, the... →
Database normalization is a technique for designing relational database schemas that
ensures that the data is optimal for ad-hoc querying and that modifications such as
deletion or insertion of…
Denormalization and Tools →
Database denormalization is the process of optimizing your database for reads by creating redundant data.
via 25hoursaday.com
Dare Obasanjo has a good overview of why you would Denormalize…
VS 2008 – Server Explorer Gone →
Today, the Server Explorer would not show up in my Visual Studio 2008 and I could not add a new data connection. From the Visual Studio command prompt I tried to run “devenv /resetskippkgs” to no…
Multi-threading in .NET →
In .NET 2.0+, if you want to have something run on another thread, you have a number of choices:
The classical System.Threading.Thread class
The not-so-known System.Threading.ThreadPool
…
Disable the New Libraries Feature on Windows 7... →
We’ve referred to Windows 7’s Libraries as a top thing to look forward to, and then as one of the best underhyped features—but if you really can’t get used to them, you can disable it. The…