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Our company has (the first draft of) a new website online. We're still working on the content, but the design is now online. Check it out @ www.mediagarde.nl (Dutch).
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We have created a new logo for the Microsoft .NET brand. It will be used widely starting next week at PDC08 in Los Angeles. Expect lots of great announcements at this event. For those attending PDC08, have fun, I am sure you will be amazed! For the not so fortunate who stay at home, the keynote sessions...
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Because I stopped working at Avanade and started my own company (this web site is under construction and in Dutch), I had to buy and install a new laptop. Everything went great and I was up and running in half a day. Or should I say half an evening... ;) The next day I wanted to continue developing a...
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As of today, I am no longer working for Avanade. I had a good time over there, but my personal goals changed. I found a new challenge: I started a company with a good friend of mine. We’re still building the website, so the information is not there yet. But it will be soon. So check the website...
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It depends on the situation if I self-identify as a geek or not. Today, I thought it would be fine, so I signed up for the Geek Dinner organized by Scott Hanselman in Bellevue, WA . Quite a lot of people showed up. I went there with my colleague Erwin van der Valk . He was a Development Consultant, like...
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Microsoft SQL Server finally gets a logo! Check out the revamped homepage of SQL Server 2008 . We have just released the Release Candidate 0 for download . I say "we", because I work for Microsoft since May 1, 2008 ;)
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One of my colleagues pointed out the new Fine-grained password policy feature in Windows Server 2008. As you can see in this post at The Sean Blog, some values have to be entered in the I8 format, which isn't very user friendly. Because of that, he asked me if I could whip up a tool that converts...
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You probably already noticed that Microsoft has enabled access to the source code of parts of the .NET Framework 3.5. Here is the announcement of availability in case you missed it. And there are detailed instructions on how to enable this as well. This morning I started stepping into the Windows Presentation...
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The last weeks have been filled with holidays and introductional days at my new employer . Because of that, I haven't had the time to realy dive into Visual Studio 2008, although I have played around with it since the RTM version was available. Since this week I've been writing some serious code...
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Today was the first of two introduction days at Avanade . Maybe you missed it, but I started there today . And that's why I'm writing this blogpost from a hotel in Almere, using my new Avanade laptop. ;) I'm sure there will be lots of stuff to blog about, so stay tuned for more...
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A [wikipedia:RUP] project consists of 4 different phases. The elaboration phase (the second phase in the RUP project lifecycle ) is normally done with a small team. One of the important reasons for this is that you want to define the basic form of your architecture. This means you think about concepts...
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As of 01-01-2008, I'm joining Avanade . You might have heard Avanade opened an office in the south of The Netherlands the first of November. I'll be joining the ranks over there (Eindhoven!) and I am exited to get started. I spent the past years at LogicaCMG . I had a lot of fun and, even more...
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Microsoft used the keynote in the SOA & Business Process Conference in Redmond to present its vision on the future of Service Oriented Architecture on the Microsoft platform. That vision and the wave of technology that will come with it, is codenamed "Oslo". MVP Charles Young has a solid...
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Scott Guthrie did a major announcement on his blog yesterday: Microsoft will be releasing the source code for most .NET Framework libraries with the release of Visual Studio 2008. There will even be integrated support for debugging into framework classes and on-demand dynamic downloading of source files...
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Today I encountered a problem with accessing the metadata for a WCF service that was deployed on a Windows Server 2003 machine. The WSDL part worked just fine for the metadata exchange endpoint ( url ?wsdl, url ?wsdl=wsdl0, etc.). These WSDL files refer to XSD files for the message types. Requesting...