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For some reason, the news was spread around that TechEd Europe was cancelled. Even officially , although the article (in Dutch) is very vague, talking about TechEd being cancelled, to continue that it'll be held in november. When I spoke about the cancellation with my friend Miguel Jiménez he...
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Today during a code review session at a client, we spoke about using the switch statement in C#, instead of the if statement. A few hours later I got the reply that they were now using the switch statement. if (Switch == 1) { // do something here } else if (Switch == 2) { // do something else } Funny...
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Rob Howard is ' surprised ' to find out about the Slashdot mentality. They and especially a lot of their visitors seem to think that DotNetNuke isn't open source. The source is definitely open, but it uses SQL-Server. And because SQL-Server isn't open, it's not pure open source, and therefor doesn't...
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I've recently seen Never Scared , the HBO show of Chris Rock, which was very very funny. I've just read on LifeHacker that his tv-show "Everybody hates Chris" will be on GoogleVideo the next four days . So be sure to watch it as soon as possible! I hope it's as funny as the man himself is....
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I just watched a part of the keynote of the PDC05 via the webcast. I got in while Don and Chris were presenting Avalon, currently names the Windows Presentation Foundation. More info on WinFX and all it's APIs at Microsoft . Anyway, some guy came in to give a demonstration of a demo application called...
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When I read this, I just had to post it. People might now I like to play games and especially MMOPRG . I can only advise not to start playing one. I've heard other people say it's more addictive then crack. I'm not sure how addictive that stuff is, but I know MMORPG is indeed very... I've quitted playing...
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For some applications, I always want to try out the latest versions. They sometimes contain such cool new features, or look so much better, you just have to get those. Office, while adding nothing new for me personally, is one of those. To see the new cool icons sometimes just does it for me. Of course...
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Microsoft just introduced a video on Channel9 about the new file format for Office 12, which is to be released in the future. Word, Excel and PowerPoint will be able to use the new format. You can view the presentation here , but in short, this is what the file format offers: New extensions The old ...
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I have always tried applications or tools like TweakUI and it's alt-tab replacement. With it, while you alt-tab through your applications, you see a small screenshot of that application. That way, it's much more clear which applications you're alt-tabbing through. Even better is the hotspot in the bottom...
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For the visitors from the Dutch DevDays 2005, you can download the slides here . I heard they also taped some tracks which would also be shown in the site, but haven't found these yet.
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Todat was the pre conference day for the Dutch Dev Days 2005. The topic I went to was about Team System. Most of the things I had already seen from various documents and a TechEd video presentation. It still was pretty cool. One thing though, was that for Team System to work from a home pc, you need...
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A collegue of mine who's a graphical designer (or art director, as his card tells us) refered to an article about Ajax . According to the article it's based on HTML, XHTML, CSS, DOM, XML, XSLT, XMLHttpRequest and Javascript binding these technologies together. I don't care what the writer has to say...
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Although we're not (yet?) in the list of sponsors , LogicaCMG will definitly be there. An not to give away free mints or a nice mousepad, but two Media Centers! It's a shame LogicaCMG employees can't enter the contest. I'm not yet sure which models they are, but I've heard they were the best of their...
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The website for the European Tech·Ed 2005 is online. It also has an rss feed you can subscribe two. For some reason, I sometimes click on the rss feed to watch it in Internet Explorer or Firefox, to quickly see what it contains and if I should subscribe. This rss feed has a stylesheet so when you...
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Just for fun, I created this little image that says I'm going to the (Dutch) DevDays in march. If you like it, and want to place it on your blog or something, you can use it. Please leave a comment if you do.