I have used Google in the past 8 years (I know, I am a bit old). Then I was annoyed because of a bad behavior of Google with my AdSense account (shutdown without being able to talk back to someone for explanation).

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1. Download this patch for the visual studio 2008 SP1
2. Download the documentation file from this link http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.4.1-vsdoc.js
3. Take a rest near the Coffe machine and convert there your co-workers

Sometimes, a client-based refresh of the session is the only viable option.

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Utilities like Telnet and remote control programs like Symantec's PC Anywhere let you execute programs on remote systems, but they can be a pain to set up and require that you install client software on the remote systems that you wish to access. PsExec is a light-weight telnet-replacement that lets you execute processes on other systems, complete with full interactivity for console applications, without having to manually install client software. PsExec's most powerful uses include launching interactive command-prompts on remote systems and remote-enabling tools like IpConfig that otherwise do not have the ability to show information about remote systems.

via PsExec.

Node.js is a Javascript application server based on Google V8 Javascript Engine. Node.js has a very good package manager these days, with a bunch of libraries on it. So it is the new buzz.

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Nei mesi passati ho avuto l’opportunità di lavorare come software architect per un progetto basato su .NET e C#.

Da molti anni non bazzicavo in ambito Microsoft, e quindi è stata una utile palestra. Ho pensato di scrivere questo piccolo manuale per sviluppatori java con la ventura di dover diventare… C#-enabled.

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Inspired by this excellent web post “Ruby or Python? Well, it depends...”,
I agree with it at 100%:

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Inversion of Control (IoC) is a very good idea.

But as the clever Joel Spolsky  noted, sometimes you need to be a super-natural hero to use it:

… I try not to be judgemental (HAHA!), but I think that people who use IoC containers are (A) very smart and (B) lacking in empathy for people who aren't as smart as they are. Everything makes perfect sense to them, so they have trouble understanding that many ordinary programmers will find the concepts confusing. It's the curse of knowledge. The people who understand IoC containers have trouble believing that there are people who don't understand it. …

I have trouble using Spring in at least two projects. On the third, it was a disaster, because a single software-architect-guy keeps passing around the Spring context factory as method parameter, getting beans from it!
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