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Monthly Archives: April 2003

Installing Rotor

Rotor (formerly known as SSCLI) made me crazy in these days… but now (after reinstalling Visual Studio .NET 2003 accordingly to Sam Gentile’s tip) I got it and I can “play” with it. My next steps are: follow the guidelines given to me by Peter Drayton and Jim Hogg (thanks very much) at the yesterday’s [...]

IE requests part 2

About “request for features”: Thanks to Robert Scoble for pointing out my previous post about IE on his blog.And also thanks to Sean Alexander for his great and useful Microsoft Product Feedback Resources post.

IE requests

Everyone knows Internet Explorer and almost everyone uses it. In the last three months I’ve installed the whole pletora of browsers available for Windows: Mozilla 1.3/.14a, Phoenix/Firebird, Netscape Navigator 7, Opera 6/7 and some less-known browser such as K-Meleon… I noticed that, except for obvious differences, that all of them have some nice features that [...]

Sharpreader rocks

SharpReader is definitely the best RSS aggregator I’ve ever tried.I’m not the only one who thinks that. Here are some great opinions: Chad Osgood’sTim Marman’sSam Gentile’sDon Box’s I wrote the SSR post and SharpReader linked my post with other related to that in my aggregator. Very good Luke, very good.

Firebirders got angry

As I thought yesterday the Firebird (the RDBMS) community got angry about the renaming of Phoenix browser… Thanks to MozillaZine for the hot links.

Small screen rendering

I was looking at the Small Screen Rendering technology developed by Opera Softwareand I think it seems very good. I tried a bunch of CSS-based sites and all worked well.Take a look at a snapshot of this blog with SSR!

Phoenix changes name

Do you know Phoenix? The Mozilla slim brother and also-Gecko based fork of it… Ok, forget it! From now on its name is: Firebird. It’s been renamed ’cause Phoenix Technologies owns the trademark. ps. isn’t there another open source project (an RDMBS) called “Firebird”? Look: http://www.firebirdsql.com/ I think there will be a lack of new [...]

Here I am

Here I am! This is my first post on my brand new blog.Here I’m going to talk about IT, Programming Languages, .NET, XML and all the stuff that I know or I’m going to learn (or I wish to…) Please rembember: all the posts on this blog are my own opinions