Raffaeu Bermuda Blog

I want to post something about what you're heard about Bermuda and a balance of wrong and true.

Bermuda is a bad move for your career?

Bermuda it used to be a halfway house on the road to professional oblivion for expat business types who were either tipsy or incompetent or both, but not any more. You can find very professional people in Accounting, IT and Financial area.

Everything is expensive?

Actually, also if we compare Bermuda to Europe after the Euro, Bermuda is merely expensive. A month rent for an house could be from 2000 to 20000 this is true, but with a salary of 6000 you can live good and save something, and the lowest rate salary here is 65000 USD annual.

Bermuda has racial problem?

First of all, is there any place without racial problem, come on!!
There are differences of opinion from race to race, this is true, and the black point of you is a little bit more expressed here. Nobody is disadvantaged economically and educationally or in access to complete healthcare.

Expact are third class citizens?

It could be for something, but not for your career. You can join financial companies here where all the management team is not Bermudans and also you can find good landlord that accept only expat people.
In another way you can find some places where if you aren't Bermudans, you have to wait to be served.

Is Bermuda suitable for Gay?

Definitively I can say NO! I'm married and I'm getting in touch with a lot of local and expat people, but if I have to be honest, Gay here are not considered.
Homosexual behavior here was illegal until 10 years ago, yeah I'm saying illegal, so you can imagine how is the local culture about Gays.

What about the hurricane?

I came from Europe, Italy, and definitively we don't have any Hurricane, Cyclone or stuff like that. Bermuda's people for century have built houses and offices as if they were under constant cannon ball. The most hard was Fabian in 2004 and 4 people were killed, but Bertha this here has passed with a power of 1 and nothing has changed. I can say that here is more pretty safe and organized than in U.S.A. about hurricane.

Guys this is what I can say about my 4 months experience in this Island.
If want to ask me something more (I'm not an expert) contact me, maybe I can suggest you. 

This guide is made for who already has SubText installed and wants to upgrade to the latest release, the V 2.0.

Pre-requisite.

First of all, starting from the version 1.9 subtext requires the ASP.NET 2.0 so be sure that your web server, or your hosting provider can give you the way to change the ASP.NET framework in IIS control panel.

You need a version of SQL Server.

Your blog user that access the Database MUST have temporally DBO permission in order to apply some changes to the Database.

First step, backup and upgrade new application.

First of all I suggest to you to backup your existing web site (SubText blog) and save the package locally in your computer or in a separate folder in your web site. In this way it should be very useful to rollback in case of failure.

Second step you should download from SubText web site the Version 2.0.

For a faster installation you should create into the wwwroot of your web server a new folder called subtext V 2.0 or something else and then redirect your domain to the new folder.

This is my situation on WH4L (Web Host for Life) web server:

I have the wwwroot folder with two subtext package inside, the version 1.9.5 working and the new installation.

If your installation is an upgrade, download the appropriate package and delete the database file contained into the App_Data folder of the new package.

Merge Information.

Before start I suggest to verify everything like:

1. Check your Host Admin panel located at http://yourblog.something/hostadmin and be sure to access in, otherwise you can run this query to reset your host admin password.
2. Merge into the new web.config file the information from the old web.config of the previous configuration. Usually you should change information like: Database connection string, e-mail setting, Lightbox configuration and other third party configurations added previously to your blog. You can run a program like WinMerge very useful in this case. 
3. Copy all the files you have customized into the new package. This include your image folder, it contains all the images of your old posts. Your video, example, personalized skin and other files you added after the installation of your previous package.

Upgrade the blog.

Now it's time to go to your host panel and point the domain to the new folder. After do that it should be very easy to rollback to the previous version in case of failure.

If everything it's done well, you should see this page:

if you are not logged in as an Administrator this is the page your users will see until you will finish the Upgrade process.

This is the page you will see if you are logged in as an administrator:

Issues with Web Host for Life.

My web host for life doesn't recognize this tag in the web.config of the new package

<EnclosureMimetypes>
    <add key=".mp3" value="audio/mpeg"/>
    <add key=".mp4" value="video/mp4"/>
    <add key=".zip" value="application/octetstream"/>
    <add key=".pdf" value="application/octetstream"/>
    <add key=".wmv" value="video/wmv"/>
    <add key=".wma" value="audio/wma"/>
</EnclosureMimetypes>

Actually I have commented this section, I will let you know what to do.

Please Simone tell me what to do here. Thanks.

My friend Simone Chiaretta is writing his first book about Beginning ASP.NET MVC in collaboration with Keyvan.

The book will be targeted to the developers that are not really focused on the MVC framework. This framework is new in Microsoft and it is still in a Beta version but personally, I'm using it and I have used this framework for two web project and it's awesome!!

You can find a detailed series of articles about ASP.NET MVC, written by Simone on DotNetSlackers. I suggest to everybody to read them.

If you wanna read more details about the book, the Publishing date and related stuff, you can go directly to Simone weblog and read his post about, or go to Keyvan weblog and read his post about.

Enjoy!!

SubText is an open source Blog engine written with the Microsoft NET framework. Actually my English blog and also my italian blog are working with this blog engine.

After one year is out the new version, 2.0.

You can find the download here.

Details.

Simone Chiaretta a good friend of mine is one of the Developer contributor of this project, and he has released a series of posts about the new future in his blog:

1. Publish in the future
2. JS and CSS performance optimization
3. Enclosures

If there is someone like me that are still using subtext in the version 1.9.5 or less, you can find here a detailed article about the upgrade procedure.

Enjoy SubText.

Yesterday Microsoft has published, for all the Microsoft MSDN subscriber, the new service packs for Visual Studio 2008 and NET framework 3.5.

The service pack for Visual Studio 2008 is here.

The service pack for NET 3.5 is here.

Additional Notes.

I have installed first the Service Pack for the NET 3.5 that is not really heavy. After the installation I have rebooted my computer and everything was still working.

The I have installed the approximate 893 Mbyte of VS08 SP1 that it's really heavy. All the project continue to work.

I want also to put in evidence, for all the people that are working with WPF and/or Silverlight and/or MVC; everything will continue to compile after this update, don't worry.

Enjoy the Download!!

Last week I have completed my first group of lessons at the Iko course. The level are tree: Discovery, Intermediate, Independent.

When you take the first lessons about the Discovery level, you don't need a kite because your teacher will give you everything. But when you start the intermediate level, you start with kiting; and in my opinion, because every kite is completely different, i have decided to buy my personal kite, board, and various instruments.

My 5th line kite.

This is a new entry in kite-boarding, actually you can find only kites with 4 lines, but I have bought a brand new North kite 5 lines, the Rebel 08.

If you want to know all the differences from a classic 4 lines kite and my brand new Rebel 08 5th line, you can watch this interesting video: http://www.northkites.com/public/content/e139/e161/e271/e5165/content/index_ger.html?image_actual=1.

The bar is awesome:

As you can see it's a 5 line bar with a lot of future like Iron-Heart, a chicken-loop more resistant and easy to use. Read here all the instructions.

My safety equipment.

I didn't buy only the kite with the bar, but also
the harnesses:

This is very important, because here you attach your kite!!!

Then I take also a impact vest, very useful if you have to swim a lot and also if you have to fall down from a bug height ...

Finally, the helmet:

The board

The board actually is a second hand given by an Italian friend of mine relocated in London.

As may People of you know, hurricane Bertha is coming really close to the east cost of Bermuda Island.

Today I have been to Sandy's beach to play kite-surf, because with the hurricane that is coming, the wind is perfect dangerous to play this crazy sport.

In first I want to give you some information about Bertha. Bertha actually is a small Hurricane quoted 1, so the smallest in that category. Actually is really close to Bermuda and we can feel it by the wind that today is increased too much. Actually here the wind is around 30 knots, and tomorrow can grow a little bit.

In these link Hurricane National Center you can stay updated with all the information you need for every hurricane present in the world. The web site is updated every quarter and you can also subscribe to an RSS feed.

Another thing I want to let you know is about Bermuda and Hurricanes. Usually in the other Countries like United States, the Government activates every time a procedure of evacuation when an hurricane is coming. But you cannot do this in Bermuda. So you can stay really quite here, because the houses are built in case of an hurricane 5, and also all the Public services and Companies give you all the information and all the instruments to be safe.

Actually I cannot tell you more about it, but I will send another post in the next days to keep you updated.

For the moment I can only say to you that tomorrow I will go to play another time kite-surf, and enjoy the strong wind, otherwise I will come back in Italy with a direct free flight with my kite, using the power of Bertha.

During one of my tour around the City of Hamilton, Me and my wife we have found a really small and strange alley. Inside you can find any sort of strange shop.

I was really suggested about the paint made by a local painter here in Hamilton. Unfortunately I don't remember the name but I can show you some of them, because I was able to stole some shots with my camera.

Take a look.

Really nice, is some sort of Naïf painting but with a Bermudan touch.

I love it, maybe I will buy one and I will hang in my Office.

Hi guys and all readers of my blog. I'm really with everyone of you but unfortunately in these days I was very busy and I didn't get one minute to update my weblog.

I have receive a lot of requests about new shots from Bermuda so in this short post I will send you some updates.

Hope you will enjoy!!

Some shots from Hamilton City

Front street

The Parliament

  One of the Churches

Some shots from my House

From the patio

My new Girlfriend !!

I hope you will enjoy, stay tuned I have a lot of more shots to show you!!

SSIS workflow is really amazing when you have to add some automatism in your data flow processes. But sometimes is better to make same checks before start with a really dangerous BULK operation.

One of the most noise stuff I have to do is to launch insert of new records when I receive updates from web (web services, XML data). But when I do this I'm always afraid about duplicated rows.

Ho to check if a row exist, in SSIS?

SSIS Package contains a component called lookup. Very intuitive name. So if you need to insert only some new rows in a table you can build a workflow like this:

So we have three components:

1. A OLEDB Datasource that reads data from the source table
2. A LookUp component that check every row, if exists in the destination table. If doesn't it redirects the rows in the error event.
3. A Destination SQL that receive only the new rows, the rows that are in error in the lookup component.

Easy and automatic.