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• TechEd (online and offline)

  I recently participated in the TechEd EMEA Developers , which took place in the beautiful Barcelona. I won’t cover the technical sessions here (which many people already did) but I’ll focus on something else. Basically I had 2 main targets to accomplish... Posted Nov 24 2008, 11:57 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Events, Fun, Interviews, Community, Travels, Memorabilia

• MVP Open Days 2008 - Greece

  After the ITPro roundtable I mentioned yesterday, I would like to give you a short insight of what happened during the last (and the first ever held in Greece) MVP Open Day in Athens. The Microsoft building location is a great one: up in the north of... Posted Nov 21 2008, 10:57 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Events, Fun, Community

• Italian MVP Open Days 2008

  As you may know, the Microsoft Microsoft MVP Award Program (Most Valuable Professional) is provided to those people that, thanks to their technical skills and their willingness to help others, made the difference in the online and offline Communities... Posted Oct 14 2008, 02:31 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: announcements, Events, Fun, Community

• Real Code Day 10th Birthday !!

  I’ m very happy to announce the 10th Birthday of one of the most important local Community on ASP.NET we have in Italy: ASPItalia.com I wanna congratulate for their successes, their efforts, their commitment to make the community work and be successful... Posted Oct 04 2008, 02:30 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: .NET, announcements, Events, Fun, Community

• A Day at the Bottega, A Night at the Pub (and other amenities…)

  Sometimes it’s nice to break the routine and have a different day. It happened last week, when I had the chance to be invited by Andrea Saltarello (I know Andre, I should have passed by months ago!) to the Managed Designs . Nice office, in the city center... Posted Sep 15 2008, 02:05 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Fun, Community, Amenities

• Windows Media Center Sandbox - Screencast: Creating A Simple Media Center Application

  Just wanted to point you all to two great screencasts on how you can develop applications on Windows Media Center. Personally I love Windows Media Center, it is the center of my entire home entertainment experience, it is networked and streamed all around... Posted Aug 09 2008, 12:58 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Windows Vista, Fun, Community, Platform, Software Development, Media Center

• Vista Chick Magnet

  I got one of my neighbour’s sons onto our one week work experience program this week, so I thought I would drop in to watch the presentations they had to do.  Everyone was genuinely impressed with the quality of the work, the imagination and professionalism... Posted Jul 06 2008, 07:18 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Vista, Fun, Community, Vista SP1, XP SP3, FunTech, Winodws

• Want to go to Macau on Microsoft's expense?

  A colleague made me aware of this competition that they have launched around "Software + Services". All you need to do is to record yourself and friends delivering the "Software + Services" story based on the article located here as... Posted Jun 20 2008, 01:00 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Fun, Community, Platform

• CIAK: si gira !!

  Video: Buona la prima #1 Video: Buona la prima #2 Video: Buona la prima #3 Share this post: Read More... Posted Jun 13 2008, 02:51 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Fun, Interviews, Community

• Singapore Community Launch 2008

  Home - Community Launch 2008   On the 17th of May, the Singapore Professional's .NET user group, the Singapore Windows User Group and Singapore SQL Server user group are coming together to have their own community launch of Windows Server... Posted May 05 2008, 03:43 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Fun, Community, Platform, Tools

• The Netflix Prize

  Another lunch-time conversation sticking in my head today - talked with some colleagues about the Netflix programming challenge - aka the Netflix Prize . Netflix is offering up a million bucks to the developer(s) who can improve the performance of their... Posted Mar 14 2008, 12:34 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Fun, Community, Learning, blog, Netflix

• Zune?

  Occasionally in the dark corners of e-bay, and amazon you'll find this odd mp3 player for sale called a Zune, Originally it looked a bit like a brick as it came with a lot of in built armour, but in its latest guise it looks more like any other well known... Posted Mar 04 2008, 04:39 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Vista, Fun, Community, Zune

• Giro-Link in vista del Lancio :)

  Visto che i miei colleghi di MSDN Italia hanno avuto l'idea carina di voler regalare una maglietta da speaker a chi indovina cosa conterrà il kit che verrà distribuito al lancio , Agli MVP che saranno presenti al Community Booth il 28 e/o 29 (in realtà... Posted Feb 07 2008, 03:23 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: blogging, Events, Fun, Community

• Champion IT

  Georgina (aka Curious George) and Faith who look after all things TechNet have this Champion IT competition going on which I really ought to have mentioned before.  Basically you can nominate yourself or a colleague for doing something a little bit... Posted Jan 16 2008, 03:24 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Fun, Community, competitions

• On the Twelfth Day of Christmas an IT Pro sent to me...

  Twelve New Servers Coming   The product guys at Microsoft have been busy so there are going to be lots (but not 12) of new servers coming out this year: Windows Server 2008 (in 8 exciting flavours depending on whether you need virtualization or not... Posted Jan 05 2008, 07:31 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Humour, Fun, SQL, Community, After Hours, SQL Server 2008, SQL Server2008

• On the Tenth Day of Christmas an IT Pro sent to me...

  Ten Boards a Bleeping Well past Christmas now but I couldn't miss this opportunity to ask why does my motherboard need to bleep when I turn it on? why do I need a sound when windows starts, but most of all how do we get rid of the pervasive hum of modern... Posted Jan 03 2008, 05:06 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Fun, Community, Noise

• On the Fifth Day of Christmas an IT Pro sent to me...

  Five Acronyms One of the worst things about being in IT is doing battle with all the acronyms we use, and having to constantly explain them to people who don't work in our industry. Two of the worst things about being in IT is doing battle with all the... Posted Dec 29 2007, 05:21 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Fun, Community, After Hours, acronyms

• BizTalk fans - questa è per voi !

  Nino ha colpito ancora !! Per Janky : scusa ma non ho resistito !! Per Raf : ci hanno provato ma non ci sono riusciti ! Domani in WPC scopriremo il perchè Per gli appassionati del prodotto: troverete questa ed altre chicche, una volta iscritti alla Community... Posted Oct 24 2007, 12:40 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Fun, Community, server, Memorabilia

• Come una Pre-Conference..

  ...abbiamo fatto una Pre-Community Dinner, nel caratteristico Borgo di Boccadasse , in attesa di quella "vera" E tra una "scianca" e l'altra ( ), piacevolmente in compagnia di Raf , del Lica e del nostro Ranger d'eccezione Gabri Tansi, si è parlato, saltando... Posted Jul 20 2007, 02:25 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Events, Fun, Community, Imaging

• Regional Meeting (ovvero: Singapore Sling!)

  Comincio questo post menzionando un mitico aperitivo molto popolare da queste parti: il Singapore Sling . Grazie all'amico e collega Gerard , al quale ho detto "sprezzante" <Mah, sembra una Fanta!> e invece mi sono dovuto ricredere...(qui sotto... Posted Jul 19 2007, 01:45 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Events, Fun, Community, Travels

• Singapore, yeah...!

  Dopo meeting e contromeeting (le foto sono sotto NDA ), Alcune foto "on-the fly", poco prima di andare a fare un pò di sano shopping :-): Eccoci quasi tutti, in divisa MVP ! La vista dal mio Hotel E adesso un pò di relax Seguiranno snapshot e piccole... Posted Jul 13 2007, 11:43 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Events, Fun, Community, Travels, Social Networking

• Addicted to Blog!

  Non ci credo, non ci posso credere ma è così !! Ho superato Lorenzo nella percentuale di addiction al blogging: semplicemente pazzesco Source: Pensavo peggio... Share this post: Read More... Posted Jul 03 2007, 02:55 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Web 2.0, Fun, Community

• Citazione...

  <quote> "Il concetto è che, come il mondo FOSS insegna, il mapping tipico di Active Record è un caso particolare di "Domain Model"+"Data Mapper", ed infatti si usa Hibernate come ORM oppure lo si wrappa con CastleProject per utilizzarlo per ActiveRecord... Posted Jun 21 2007, 05:38 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Fun, Community, Utopia

• Gladiators in action (part III) !

  Terzo (ma non ultimo) Video dei Gladiators in action ! Video: Italian Gladiators III P.S: Pino, contiamo su di te per il prossimo ! Share this post: Read More... Posted May 14 2007, 07:55 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Events, Fun, Community, Travels, Technology, Memorabilia