… so while I was taking a break from computers to move to a new house (I’m still packing and unpacking things), a few notable things happened: Internet Explorer 8 beta 2 has been released, Google released its new browser Chrome and my colleagues from the Italian Enterprise Support Group have started a team blog! So if you can at least read Italian I suggest you to keep an eye on it, knowing that smart people you can expect a lot of good content from them ? Carlo Quote of the day: I was always taught to respect my elders and I’ve now reached the age when I don’t have anybody to respect. – George Burns
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Blog title context (reloaded)
As my fond readers might remember, I already rambled about the possibility of changing the blog title last year; nothing has really changed since that post, except the fact that every now and then I’ve been playing with the idea but at last I always put it back in a drawer with the promise to go back to it, sooner or later. A couple of days ago I by chance found a site with a few quotes from Dr.House. This is a TV series which I didn’t want to see for quite some time because I don’t really like those “first aid” movies (E.R. is another example) and also I guess because I’m always a bit reluctant to “follow the crowd” and didn’t want to find myself watching something just because it is so popular. But then on a sleepy evening, too tired (or should I say lazy?) to go outside and with nothing interesting to watch on TV, I decided to give this “Dr. House thing” a try… and I liked it ?. Maybe it is for his care and acumen concealed as cynism, or the fact that they proceed with some analysis, make assumptions while trying to understand…
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Time to say… see you later! :-)
Carlo Quote of the Day: Sincerity is the highest compliment you can pay. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Blog addict?
Uhm… should I try to improve or somehow “worsen” this figure? ?? Carlo
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Blog title contest
As I guess many of you have noted, I’m not native English speaking so even if I try to write in a simple and appropriate form to the context of this blog (and I should apoligize for my mistakes), I sometimes find miself wondering how to exactly express in English what I have in mind and is of course easy to me to say in Italian… Well, one of the beauties of working in a virtual team spread across different EMEA countries (and also the possibility to get in touch with people practically from all over the world, whereaver Microsoft has an office), is the possibility of get in touch with all of those different people, languages and cultures quite easily (such as emailing, IM or ringing someone). So, taking advantage of this opportunity, I emailed Doug to ask his opinion on the title of my blog, because I’ve been wondering for a while now it the title really makes sense in English 🤔. I didn’t want to use the word “ramblings” because it sounded a bit stale, and I tried to find something with a similar meaning (“rambling from a developer”) but a bit more refined… but how does it…
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Happy Easter!
Carlo
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Connected again… finally!
After about 40 days of argues, debates, emails, calls etc… well… finally our beloved Telecom company found some time to give me a phone line and the long awaited broadband Internet connection! ⏱
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I’ve been tagged :-)
So… this seems to be the game of this New Year (not really sure when it started, though)… Doug tagged me, so I’m now supposed to tell you 5 things you don’t know about me… here we are: I come from a completely different background: I studied Organ and Composition at the conservatory of Parma; do you know the “Ham of Parma“, or the “Parmigiano Reggiano” cheese, the “Parmalat” (sadly known for a huge financial disaster 3-4 years ago, as the “Italian Enron”) or Giuseppe Verdi? Well… I come from that land (an by the way, the native house and village of Verdi is just 5 minutes from the house where I grown up and lived for about 28 years… maybe that is what influenced my choice). Speaking of my favorite music, I’m an ancient guy (meaning I most like the Renaissance, Baroque and Classic eras, from W.A.Mozart backward), but of course I also don’t dislike some melodic “modern” songs… for sure I don’t like Heavy Metal and Techno Music (the latter can be really called “music”? C’mon… that’s just noise!) Computers where one of my other passions (together with painting, photograph, reading, movies and studying foreign languages), so towards the…
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I’ve been on the move…
…and still I am! I moved to a new house, in a new town closer to the office (well… let’s say that now I have to drive in the traffic for just a little bit more that one hour instead of more that two hours I had before…), and as you can imagine I’ve been quite busy with the pack/move/unpack side of this thing (and still when I’m looking for something I have to guess in which cardboard box it could be), and I’m also fighting with our Telecom company to have my new phone line and Internet connection… I guess this situation will go on for a while, and since Christmas is coming and every activity will stop I hope to be back online in full forces at the beginning of the new year 🎉 UPDATE (2 January 2007) Well… thanks to our Telecom Company (which we can’t leave, by the way, since it’s the only one supposed to work for us… ) I’m still without the phone connection at home, so no Internet connection either… too long (and probably not interesting for others) summarize the ups and downs of this story, but I feel like I’m lost in…
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Sometime is obvious, but not for everyone
I just realized that my last post is 20 days old… I spent this time working on support calls I own (or course, that’s my job!), reading documentation and playing to get ready for the upcoming releases I’m quite sure you already heard about (Vista, Ajax, IIS 7, Internet Explorer 7…), reading some good books in my spare time (currently I’m almost done with The Twelfth Card by Jeffery Deaver) and among other things I’ve been searching (and found) a new home. (well, actually my girlfriend decided where we’ll go to live for the next years, I guess you know how this king of things works…). While I had to deal with the contracts and terminology I’m not familiar with, I realized that sometimes people tend to give some things and facts for granted, while other people may not know what we are talking about… This also apply to our business: I had some conversations with our customer getting “Application Server Unavailable” errors in their ASP.NET sites, and then we discovered that they tried to execute two different CLR versions (usually ASP.NET 1.1 and 2.0) in the same worker process… This is not allowed, and I always thought this was clear, but a couple of customers…