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Microsoft DevDays ‘09, I’m attending!

Rick van den Bosch — Mon, 18 May 2009 12:45:23 GMT

Thanks to our friends at Microsoft (and their great BizSpark program) I will be able to attend DevDays ‘09! We won tickets because we updated our company profile and added projects at the Discover Metro site. Normally attending this kind of event is not available to young startups like ours, but now it is!

I’ll be seeing you @ The Hague next week :)

I will return...

Rick van den Bosch — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:05:00 GMT

I've been busy the last couple of weeks. Between (the announcements at) all the congresses to follow like PDC and Tech·Ed, all the projects to do, the rehearsal for the musical I'm in in December (Dutch) and the start of our new company (Dutch), I didn't have a lot of time to blog...

Since we expect things to settle down in the next couple of days, I'm expecting to pick up where I left in a week or so. Hang in there, and if you have any subjects you would like me to blog about or any questions you would like answered: let me know. Oh, and try to keep those subjects and/or questions development related. ;)

PS I'm guessing you know why I didn't title this post "I'll be back" :)

LogicaCMG open house (The Netherlands)

Rick van den Bosch — Thu, 03 May 2007 03:41:00 GMT

Thursday the 10th of May LogicaCMG The Netherlands organises an open house for ICT professionals. From 4 pm until 9 pm colleagues will be available to answer any and all questions you might have about (working at) LogicaCMG. People active in all of our competences will be present. The open house is hosted at some of our locations across the country. This time, the lucky locations are: Amstelveen, Arnhem, Eindhoven, Rotterdam and Rijswijk. I myself will be present at our location in Eindhoven. To sign up, just send me your info. Try to add your name, address, phonenumber, e-mail address and if possible your curriculum vitae. You can find more info at http://www.logicacmg.nl/openhuis (Dutch page).

By the way: in Eindhoven the open house is hosted at the 19th floor of our building. With clear weather, it offers a great view of Eindhoven and beyond...

We're back!

Rick van den Bosch — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 12:17:00 GMT

This morning we landed in Amsterdam at approximately 7.30 am. We had a great week in America, starting of with the great sessions at Microsoft for LEAP. Together with a colleague of mine (Ruud Campsteijn) I stayed for a few more days, so we got to see some more than just the inside of the Microsoft building, like an NBA game, the Boeing factory, Downtown Seattle and so on. You will be hearing more about the LEAP sessions in a little while. Right now, I've been awake for 24 30 hours straight, so it might be a good idea to go sleep now...

The last thing I did today before I'll be going to sleep in a minute (except for writing this blogpost) was sign up with technorati. I'm trying to find out how I can realy use it, but the first step has been made. Tomorow I'll try to get the search and 'view profile' links working. I'll blog to you guys later. But first, let's get some sleep ...

Tech·Ed Developers 2006

Rick van den Bosch — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 05:47:00 GMT

Sadly, I will not be attending the 2006 European developer Tech·Ed. Fortunately, the reason I won't be there is quite nice: I am currently attending Microsoft's 'LEAP for aspiring architects' program, which enables me to visit Redmond next January! So although I will not be visiting Spain next week, America is whitin reach! I'm looking forward to visiting the Microsoft Campus. I'll post all the interesting information over here ...

BloggingAbout .Net meeting? - Part 2

Rick van den Bosch — Tue, 02 May 2006 12:21:00 GMT

I've received lot's of positive reactions on the post about organizing a bloggingabout.net meeting. I'll try to squeeze in organizing a meeting in the near future. But see the near future somewhere between now and a few months. As you can image lot's of stuff should be taken care of: a place to have the meeting, food & drinks, a decent agenda and maybe even guestspeakers. And to keep everything affordable for all the visitors: maybe we should consider finding a sponsor. But before we go there it's important to make sure it's possible.

So if you feel the need to take up this challenge with me: drop me a line. I'll start out after next week, because then the deadline on my current project is come and gone.

DevDays 2006

Rick van den Bosch — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 00:07:00 GMT

I attended the DevDays 2006 and my overall impression was: cool. Allthough some of the sessions I attended weren't good (or actually, were very bad), the overall feeling is good and I picked up on some great stuff. Meeting up with some smart people is also a good addition to attending the sessions.

The most impressive session I attended was Scott Guthrie on Atlas. Microsoft is doing its best in making the life of developers easier. My guess is they are getting there pretty fast. The AJAX framework they are developing, called Atlas, makes it possible for you to AJAX-enable your site within a few minutes. There's a dummy-proof implementation which takes almost no knowledge of JavaScript or whatever to AJAX enable your site. But there also are possibilities to take it to the next level and write lots of complex code and JavaScript to take even more advantage of AJAX.

Another great session was Anko Duizer on MSF. I think that because of the movement IBM is making with RUP (gradually pulling it more and more to Java), Microsoft has brought their way of developing software to market supported by the Team System/Team Foudation suite. Anko talked about MSF and the rules used to ensure a good software development process. That was interesting stuff...
For those who attended: the best rule I heard was "Don't shake the Jell-O".

Microsoft DevDays 2005 - the day after

Rick van den Bosch — Fri, 04 Mar 2005 08:34:00 GMT

Yesterday I attended the Microsoft DevDays 2005 in The Hague. The MSDN TechNet briefings in Veldhoven I attended last year (was that October or November?) were great. Because the DevDays would (or should) be even greater I could hardly wait for DevDays 2005 to begin! Here's my short opinion on the DevDays 2005. Interested in a more elaborate version? Comment!

Keynote
Prashant Sridharan kicked off with a killer keynote. This guy alternated humour with fact, example with slides and gave an overall really good presentation. I listened to him with ease for almost one and a half hour and after that I was sure: the DevDays were going to be great!

Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005
The name could make you think otherwise, but this session was about Visual Studio (2005) Tools for Office (2003). Lex Oskam made the crowd enthusiastic about these tools, which make it possible to create rich applications within a Word or Excel document. Great session to follow Prashant's keynote.

Software factories
The guy who spoke here wanted to share a lot of information, and that's where it went wrong: the story he told was very scattered and sometimes he was quiet for just too long, indicating he himself lost the line of his story. Being complicated, software factories should be made concrete. Unfortunately this presentation stayed to abstract.

BizTalk in action
There were two guys for this session, and why became very clear during the first demo: one of them was there for the presentation, the other was the technical guy who actually knew how the stuff worked. His presenting skills were not all that good… The demos were too simple: “This is what we made and look, it works!”

ASP.NET Web Services 2.0
Starting out, this session promised to be one of the best of the day. The speaker was very good and told his story very interesting. Near the end he went in too deep, and lost some of his viewers. I think this session was too complicated to be given at the end of such a tiring day.

Overall
The DevDays didn’t bring what I hoped they would bring. The sessions I attended were mostly too abstract or too boring. The day started out great with the keynote and Lex Oskam’s presentation, from then on it seemed to get worse with every session.

DevDays 2005

Rick van den Bosch — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 12:16:00 GMT

My provisional program for DevDays 2005:

09:30 Keynote: Microsoft Developer Tools Strategy
Prashant Sridharan (Microsoft)

10.45 Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005
Lex Oskam (Microsoft)

13.15 Indigo update
Gijs de Jong (Microsoft)

14.45 BizTalk in action
Sijmen Koffeman (Microsoft)

16.30 ASP.NET Web Services 2.0
Alex Thissen (Twice)

I'll probably be attending these sessions during my first DevDays ever: DevDays 2005.