The virtual trip consists of a video stream showing the view from a train while you can see the position on Google Maps. To make things more interesting, you can listen to the rumble of the train wheels, a Russian radio station, some balalaika music or one of the three Russian books.

It’s a joint project of Google and the Russian railways to promote the Trans Siberian Railway.

Well… we are planning to make the Trans Siberian journey in 2011, so this gives us a little taste of what we can expect.

You can enjoy the trip yourself at this page.

All questions regarding Vici MVC, Vici CoolStorage, Vici Parser, Vici WinService and all other future Vici projects can be viewed and answered on http://vici.stackexchange.com.

The old http://support.viciproject.com URL will redirect you to the new support location.

A reply to a tweet of @B_Virtual lead us to this website: Developer Evangelism

We’ll be digging into the website and hopefully we can get some information that will help us spreading the word of “our” open-source project(s).

While there are lots of possible applications, this online tool will fit your needs most of the time: SVG to raster image conversion.

Page Speed needs to be used in combination with the well known Firebug add-on.

Philippe describes Vici Project as follows: “The idea of the Vici Project is to provide .NET developers with a collection of lightweight libraries and frameworks, and at the same time get the community involved in the development and support of these libraries.”

The first sub-project of the Vici Project to be released is Vici MVC, formerly known as ProMesh.NET. Later this week, 2 other projects will be released as well: Vici Parser (formerly LazyParser.NET/SharpTemplate.NET) and Vici CoolStorage (formerly CoolStorage.NET).

I personally use Promesh.NET/Vici.Mvc with Coolstorage.NET/Vici.CoolStorage for some months now and I really enjoy developing web applications using this powerful framework.
After getting tired of using WebForms I’m happy that I now again have full control of my application! No more ViewState’s, no more “wanna-be-events”, …

Are you a .NET web developer? Get your ass over there and try out this wonderful products!

Although I don’t think you have to pin yourself too much onto this numbers, it gives you some idea how widespread fonts like Arial, Verdana, Helvetica etc… are.

First, you can all enjoy the official 1.0 release of ASP.NET MVC by downloading it from the Microsoft Download Center.

I must say that I’m not really thrilled about it, because I’m already enjoyng an excellent MVC framework for ASP.NET called ProMesh.NET. It’s lightweight, open source and a perfect match with the open source ORM CoolStorage.NET. Both projects will become part of the Vici Project collection of free tools.

Of course I’ll try out ASP.NET MVC, but I must say I expect it to be “too much, too heavy”. I like it to be no-nonsense and lightweight.

Second… The horror of Internet Explorer continues… Microsoft released the 8.0 version of their web browser. As a real opposer to Internet Explorer I will not install it to use as my daily web browser, but I need it to test my web applications. You want to download it and install it out of free will, please visit the Internet Explorer homepage.

On the IEBlog, there is an article about IE8 and it’s Compatibility Mode. Main subject is of course the problems and differences it brings with it.

So, head over to the blog post and get your knowledge up to date. Spare yourself a few minutes/hours/days/… of frustration already!