Category : Featured

19 Dec

On technology books

by Marco Mastropaolo

Jeff Atwood mad some explicit about technology books here: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/10/do-not-buy-this-book.html. At first I was astonished and strongly disagreed with him. Later I thought about it, digested its meaning and must admit, I agree. So this is a how I will choose which books I will buy or not:   Buy Books about architecture, design and [...]

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18 Feb

Top 10 music for programming

by Marco Mastropaolo

For programming one needs silence to concentrate at the problem at hand. But comes a time (often) when one has to go in auto mode, and have the hands write the ideas accumulated at the time. Good music is the best thing to let them go, and it must be non-boring, lengthy enough to avoid [...]

22 Nov

Porting .NET app to Vista.. DEP strikes!

by Marco Mastropaolo

An interesting issue happened these days when I tried to port some apps to Vista. Basically all .NET apps compiled with Visual Studio 2005/2008 are marked “NX compatible” by default. If your .NET app uses an incompatible DLL or COM object, the app will crash. What I found funny was that the message was a [...]