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Creatures of Thought is a project I discovered just recently. It is about the history of science and technology, and it revolves around two primary tracks: The Switch and The Backbone. The former covers the digital switch; the latter is the story of how the world got online. Both sections are well written, researched, and curated. The latest installment of The Backbone covers Usenet’s invention, then FidoNet, and well, it sent me on a mesmerizing trip down memory lane....

As a non-native English speaker, presenting at conferences has always been super challenging and intimidating. It’s even worse now that we’re forced into online presenting because of the COVID19 situation. James Whittaker has a good post on the topic, with great advice: Remember, the inability to see and hear your audience is disconcerting but it doesn’t mean you should give up. There are much bigger audiences in the wide world that you will not have local access to....

FatturaElettronica for .NET 3.0 is now available on NuGet. It brings full support for the latest technical specifications (v1.6.1) issued by the Italian Public Administration. These come with a number of relevant changes, which were originally supposed to be effective starting May 4, 2020. We were ready well in advance (v3.beta-1 package was available on March 20) but then, because of the COVID19 situation (and, I suspect, pressure from relevant “not-ready-to-deliver” software companies) the deadline was pushed forward to October 1, 2020....

This morning on my twitter feed, this surprising tweet showed up: We made the history! 🍾🎆 The new addition to the Windows Forms UI control family in 15 years! Coming to you in .NET 5.https://t.co/MvPctRHI9y Massive shout outs to Konstantin (the author) for his work, patience and commitment! 🙇 — Igor Velikorossov (@IgorRussKie) April 18, 2020 Apparently, .NET 5 brings support for Windows TaskDialog to Windows Forms, and that is relevant for several reasons....

Seven years since the first commit, I am glad to announce that Eve v1.0 has been released. Check it out on PyPI. If you are using Eve, Cerberus, FatturaElettronica for .NET or any other one of my open source projects in a revenue-generating product, it would make business sense to sponsor my open source development. Learn how to do that at my GitHub Sponsors page. Happy holidays to all of you and have a wonderful start in the new year....

Today I pushed version 2.0 of FatturaElettronica to NuGet. This release comes with full support for Fattura Semplificata, something that has been on the back-burner for a while. Special thanks to Gaetano Pizzol for single-handly contributing this feature. Now for the bad news. Since we were to add a new invoice type whereas so far we only had one, I decided to take the plunge and break backward compatibility a little bit....

It is a common misconception that F# is just for data science, machine learning, and quantitative finance; in the .NET eco-system you turn to C# for enterprise and web development and, eventually, you’ll look at F# for serious number crunching. While it is undoubtedly true that functional languages are ideally suited for solving numerical problems, some of them - and F# in particular - are perfectly fine for tackling so many different domains other than scientific ones....

This handy little package does one simple thing, and it does it well. According to its description, DeepEqual is: An extensible deep comparison library for .NET. I am sure you too have come across this a few times. You have some code that shuffles around objects, and at some point, you’d like to make sure that two instances of the same class are, indeed, equal. And no, you don’t mean “equal” as in reference equality....

FatturaElettronica for .NET v0.9 has been released. The companion Extensions package also hits v0.4. The main new feature is the FromJson() extension method which allows, you guessed it, for deserialization of a JSON stream into a Fattura class instance: var fattura = Fattura.CreateInstance(Instance.Privati); fattura.FromJson(new JsonTextReader(new StringReader(json))); // or, if FatturaElettronica.Extensions v0.4 is being used: fattura.FromJson(json); // Invoice is now ready for inspection. foreach (var documento in fattura.Body) { var dati = documento....

Just a quick note to report that Eve v0.8.1 is out and ready to rock. It brings a number of fixes, some improvements as well as a couple of new features. Check out the changelog for details. Join the newsletter to get an email alert when a new post surfaces on this site. If you want to get in touch, I am @nicolaiarocci on twitter.