I bet almost all the developers followed the ‘build’ keynote Yesterday, we had some big news (nothing too much scary, thankfully) and we saw Windows running on a bunch of new devices (I honestly can’t wait to put my hands on them) that will hit the m

This entry was posted on Wednesday, 14 September, 2011 and is filed under Various  Freetime talking  Visual Studio  . You can follow any responses to this entry through here . You can leave a response.

Some days ago the .Net User Group I belong to (DotNetMarche, for those who do not know) organized an event that was part of the “Microsoft & Community Tour 2011”. We had a multi-track workshop event that was entirely devoted to the web developmen

This entry was posted on Wednesday, 01 June, 2011 and is filed under .Net  Freetime talking  . You can follow any responses to this entry through here . You can leave a response.

In a few days the 19th DotNetMarche workshop will take place, this time we will have a sort of multi-track event and we will try to show you some of the features that the major .NET CMS Platforms have to offer: we will tracks on Orchard, Microsoft Sh

This entry was posted on Monday, 23 May, 2011 and is filed under .Net  Freetime talking  Various  . You can follow any responses to this entry through here . You can leave a response.

In the next few hours my first WP7 application called ‘Business Cards’ should go live with its version 1.1. ‘Business Cards’ is a digital business cards and contact info classifier application: you can take snapshot, rate, add information and catego

This entry was posted on Friday, 15 April, 2011 and is filed under Freetime talking  WP7  . You can follow any responses to this entry through here . You can leave a response.

I’ve not been so much active on the blog lately, mainly because most of my free time was devoted once again to the Dexter Blog Engine project. My good friend and project leader Ugo Lattanzi was going through a complete rewriting of the blog engine (

This entry was posted on Thursday, 24 March, 2011 and is filed under Dexter  Freetime talking  . You can follow any responses to this entry through here . You can leave a response.

This post is mainly for all my Italian readers to remind them that our user group DotNetMarche is organizing its 18th workshop. We will have Raffaele Rialdi (MVP Developer Security) and Gian Maria Ricci (MVP Visual Studio ALM) talking about: A r

This entry was posted on Wednesday, 09 March, 2011 and is filed under Freetime talking  . You can follow any responses to this entry through here . You can leave a response.

My dear Italian readers ... our User Group reaches the fatal number too...we were tempted to skip it, but we couldn’t resist the challenge! So once again in collaboration with the Ce.S.M.I. of the University of Ancona we take part in the Microsoft Co

This entry was posted on Wednesday, 24 November, 2010 and is filed under Freetime talking  . You can follow any responses to this entry through here . You can leave a response.

It’s time for some sparse thanksgiving, thoughts and impressions about the event. In the first place I have to thank all the developers that stood up and took part as speakers: Oren Eini (Ayende), Rob Ashton, Gian Maria Ricci, Andrea Saltarello, Al

This entry was posted on Monday, 11 October, 2010 and is filed under Freetime talking  NHibernate  . You can follow any responses to this entry through here . You can leave a response.

If you’re a fan of NHibernate, if you use it for your everyday work or just if you are curious about it, you should have not missed to register for the first European NH Day coming up this Saturday. The Agenda is quite rich, various and with very in

This entry was posted on Wednesday, 06 October, 2010 and is filed under NHibernate  Freetime talking  . You can follow any responses to this entry through here . You can leave a response.

A new version of the Windows Live Essential Suite was released on August the 17th, you can get it here (at your own risk!); if you want to try it out you can have a very bad surprise: after having chosen the applications you want to install, at the

This entry was posted on Wednesday, 18 August, 2010 and is filed under Freetime talking  . You can follow any responses to this entry through here . You can leave a response.