Mischa Kroon

Hacking your life: Tim Ferris on a lot of things saving your time

Mischa Kroon — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:55:47 GMT

If there is one blog your should read at the moment it's the 4 hour workweek The blog is pretty diverse it covers things like how to travel better, doing more with your money while traveling. It's about personal productivity: personal outsourcing...(read more)

MediaFire Update: Upload changed.

Mischa Kroon — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:22:21 GMT

A while back I created a little utility to upload files to MediaFire which is a file hosting service. MediaFire supports uploading of files up to 100 MB in a free account with unlimited storage, and is in my opinion one of the best free online storage...(read more)

Back to basics: Getting started (Todolists)

Mischa Kroon — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:36:35 GMT

Prelude When your getting ready to start doing the tasks at hand you will have to start organizing the different tasks and prioritizing these tasks. The easiest way of doing this is by using a Todolist application, there are a lot of different strategies...(read more)

Back to basics: Getting started (Source Control: SVN/Git)

Mischa Kroon — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:13:37 GMT

Prelude This will hopefully be the start of a series of posts / articles about the basic information/skills needed for different software development. Source Control Source control is one of the things you need to set up before starting to do the actual...(read more)

IE 8 Beta is out, what do you need to know ?

Mischa Kroon — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:20:00 GMT

Highlights of new functionality included - JScript debugger . - Webslices (sort of widget extractor for websites) - Activities (extend your right click with custom menus) - HTML View (think firebug / Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar ) Other important...(read more)

ASP.NET MVC vs ASP.NET(Webforms) vs Ruby On Rails

Mischa Kroon — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 22:13:58 GMT

Introduction What is MVC MVC stands for: Model (database) Controller (business logic) View (what you see + view logic) It is used to separate the logic from a web application and other types of applications into these 3 logical parts. There are a lot...(read more)

Review: Ucertify.com - Prepkits (70-305)

Mischa Kroon — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 23:09:00 GMT

Introduction UPDATE: The kind folks of Ucertify.com have offered people who read this blog post with a discount you can get a 10% discount for this product using the following code: MISKRO You can download this product at: http://www.ucertify.com/exams...(read more)

Rant: Trying to work with the Nokia s60 software and their PC Suite API

Mischa Kroon — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:27:00 GMT

Nokia and it's software a .Net developers take on things. First off I would like to say that I started this quest with a good amount of confidence that I would be pleased about things on the software side of things. But each time when I look further...(read more)

Breath taking new technology in imaging and maybe navigation

Mischa Kroon — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 16:20:00 GMT

There is a new video out which is talking about combining images taken by everyone in the whole world and determening their origin and bringing them together to get visions of certain things, which is pretty breath taking by itself. But imagine a new...(read more)

MediaFire Uploader - What is it and why is it here

Mischa Kroon — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 22:08:00 GMT

UPDATE: this program can't be used anymore for more info check out the new blog post Mediafire is a very nice free file hosting service with unlimited storage, unlimited time availability, the posibility to work with folders and fairly advanced sharing...(read more)

The future of games and other interfaces: Motion Detection

Mischa Kroon — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 13:25:00 GMT

In my opinion the future of games and other interfaces will be one where motion detection will be a key element. What we are seeing at the moment is that the Nintendo WII is outselling the competition, why is this? Well for one it makes for quite a good...(read more)

Handeling your computer security and dealing with Spyware and viruses

Mischa Kroon — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 17:12:00 GMT

Viruses and Spyware are annoying to deal with that’s why the following is a bit of a guide to make sure you don’t have to deal with them and if you do need to battle them what the right way to do so is. A bit of advice to help out with not having to deal...(read more)

Free just got better: The MyGeneration - Codegenerator application got open sourced

Mischa Kroon — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 14:57:00 GMT

One of my favorite productivity tools has been open sourced :) It has been placed on source forge with a BSD style license which means you can use it in open source, non profit and for profit applications. The project can be found here . ---- More information...(read more)

Getting people to work at your company, Google Vs Meetup :)

Mischa Kroon — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 12:00:00 GMT

I saw a brilliant campagn document from Meetup.Com in which it compares itself to google in terms of where do you want to work. It plays into Google's strengths and then exposes it's own charms based on that. Have a look here ....(read more)

Getting started with the SubSonic Starter Site on Ms SQL Server 2000

Mischa Kroon — Tue, 22 May 2007 13:16:00 GMT

First a pre requisite: You need to have asp.net Ajax installed. Get it at: http://ajax.asp.net Then we need to set up the database, there are some scripts included with the startersite. These are located in: SubSonicStarter\App_Data\Scripts To be able...(read more)