ExternalBlogs

New Skin for the blog

2008-09-05T20:55:27Z

I’m a really bad graphics designer, but the old skin I used for my blog is really old, and does not fit well with wordpress 2.6, so I take an already existing theme, and modified it to make it similar to the old skin. I won’t tell you issue I had writing php code, fortunately I [...]...(read more)

Slow tests with nunit 2.4 and nhibernate

2008-09-05T17:41:21Z

I noticed that when I used nunit 2.4 test runner it is really slower than 2.2. The reason is that in 2.4 the nunit test runner will use log4net as default logger, and if you do not disable logging, you will see in log tab an enormous amount of text. The reason is that nunit used [...]...(read more)

Mix Linq2XML and XPath, take the best from both

2008-09-05T16:04:17Z

I must admit that LINQ 2 Xml impressed me very much, I’m actually using it to modify docx documents with the OpenXml sdk. While Linq 2 xml is really useful to makes query and find nodes in xml, I found it rather clumsy in my unit test code. Ex. I’m writing a test that must verify [...]...(read more)

Favor small and frequent checkin over big ones.

2008-09-05T14:55:13Z

This is a rule that I try to adopt since long time in the past, and few days ago Jeff Atwood enforces this concept in his blog. I completely agree with him, code should be checked in often, especially when you have continuous integration server. Checking in often reduce the risk of conflicts, makes tests [...]...(read more)

Patrick Tisseghem è morto

2008-09-05T09:31:21Z

It is with deepest regret that we have to announce the death of Patrick Tisseghem, co-founder of U2U. Patrick suddenly passed away on Wednesday 3 September 2008 around 18 hours in Gothenburg Sweden due to a heart failure. Our sympathy and thoughts go out to his wife Linda, their daughters Anahi and Laura, and to [...]...(read more)

I love fluent interfaces.

2008-09-04T13:26:57Z

I’m developing a little library that basically does these steps 1) open a docx file2) Find a particular bookmark in the file3)Add some content at bookmark position4) Save the updated file. This is a typical call I like very much this kind of syntax, since we chain every method we always have intellisense that suggest us what [...]...(read more)

ISO and IEC members give go ahead on ISO/IEC DIS 29500

2008-09-04T09:37:57Z

Con questo comunicato ISO e IEC concludono il lavoro di standardizzazione per ECMA 376, quindi si da il via alla pubblicazione di ISO/IEC 29500. Alcune note: None of the appeals from Brazil, India, South Africa and Venezuela received the support for further processing of two-thirds of the members of the ISO Technical Management Board and IEC [...]...(read more)

E-Book on data structure and algorithms

2008-09-04T09:24:32Z

My italian friend Luca Del Tongo had just published an ebook on Data Structure and Algorithms. The book is free to download and it is supported by code examples at http://codeplex.com/dsa. The argument is really interesting and I suggest you to download and read it Alk. Tags: Algorithm...(read more)

L’esperanto

2008-09-04T08:43:31Z

Segnalo un funzionalissimo portale in cui è molto facile inziare ad imparare l’Esperanto. Magari se siete già esperti, Alla Kudryashova può darvi una mano con il suo blog tematico....(read more)

Quando un neurone fa la differenza

2008-09-03T14:50:04Z

Oggi mi chiama mia madre e mi inzia a raccontare una storia molto interessante: stamattina mentre andava all’INPS ha incontrato un’ avvenente bionda che gli chiedeva informazioni circa la sede della ….. più vicina. Mia madre, non sapendo risponderle ha chiesto a sua volta (guarda caso) ad un altro avvenente uomo che in quell’istante attraversava [...]...(read more)

Incontro con Pietro Scott Jovane e la blogosfera

2008-09-03T14:24:03Z

Il 9 settembre Microsoft ha organizzato un incontro con alcuni blogger italiani per presentare il nuovo Amministratore Delegato della sede Italiana. L’incontro si terrà a Milano, pochi giorni prima della Blogfest, questa volta mi tocca rinuciare all’invito ma sono convinto che come le altre volte un confronto su questi temi sia sempre un’utile occasione di [...]...(read more)

GMail: Account Suspended = Account Forever Lost

2008-09-03T08:49:58Z

Chrome is out

2008-09-03T08:40:41Z

I’m installing google Chrome, the new browser from Google. I suspect that it will not became my favourite browser in the near future, I use a lot of addins for Firefox and I’m very satisfied with it, so I does not feel the need for another browser. Probably Chrome will rapidly become one of the [...]...(read more)

google chrome social feedback

2008-09-03T08:02:18Z

Piccolo esperimento di *social feedback*: alcuni post su Google Chrome direttamente dai feeds che leggo (almeno quelli che ne hanno parlato stamattina): Andrea Signori “I programmi che usiamo per navigare su internet sono stati ideati quando il web era un insieme di pagine testuali. E’ ora di costruire da zero un browser pensato per ciò che [...]...(read more)

OpenXml format, insert an image into a document

2008-09-02T07:51:06Z

In previous post I showed how to open a docx file, search for a specific text, and replace the text with another string. The reason for doing this is simply to create a master report file in docx format, and let an application insert data in specific part of the document itself. The next step is [...]...(read more)