August 2008 Entries
This is an unusual post for me, today I will not talk about C#, or about Design Patterns or about SQL but about IT audit. In the past I have worked in a couple of banks in Switzerland and as a consultant. Now I'm working as an IT Manager in a finance company in Bermuda. One of the most non valued and non considered process in the IT departments are the procedures and technical manuals. But not for me. In my opinion one of the most important thing in a well maintained system is to keep live and up to...
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...
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...
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...
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: Publish in the future JS and CSS performance optimization Enclosures ...
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...