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Employers don’t need a recruiter
How come that companies hire recruiters to find new developer employees for them? App...
The new pc
How about this, a pc inon a napkin to use, read, write, collaborate with and more… A...
Office Live Workspace
You might know that I’m quite the Microsoft addict. While a lot of people are very sc...
Programmatically creating an IIS7 site
I’m using FinalBuilder to build and deploy websites on our test server. FinalBuilder ...
SQL Injection still works
When talking about security, one of the easiest examples to show is something with [w...
What is a good way to specify requirements?
What is a good way to specify requirements? I actually have no idea… I come across ma...
Zoomin on ‘watch popup’
During his ‘Applied Linq’ presentation at the Developer Days 2007, Alex Thissen tried...
Firefox its inline search for IE
Wow, I almost lost this little gem after formatting and installing my machine again. ...
Viva Las Vegas
So I arrived… Yesterday the plane landed in Las Vegas and the first thing that I saw ...
MIX’07
I’ll be attending MIX’07 in Las Vegas this year as well as the parallel MDEC conferen...
EvilAPI
As Don Box says, you have to love the web. Don says Within a couple of days of Google...
Mozy
I was reading Steve Eichert’s weblog when he mentioned Mozy, an online backup service...
Powerpoint 2007 presenter view
I love (!!!!) the new Powerpoint 2007 presenter view functionality! I absolutely love...
Newsflash 3 MSDN downloads
I’m subscribed to the MSDN Subscriber downloads RSS feed, but for some reason it wasn...
Running Vista; Part 3
SQL Server 2005 problem solved. The ISO’s I used were probably corrupted. I installed...
Running Vista; Part 2
So I’m still running Vista and guess what… I got my first BSOD this morning! I can’t ...
Running Vista; Redmond, we have a problem
So I’m running Windows Vista. And although it’s running very smoothly itself, there a...
Downloading Vista RTM
Only 29 seconds left! I’m downloading Vista off of MSDN right now at a speedy 2.6 meg...
Bitslapping contest LX vs Compile on Test integration in VS2005, part 2 response
Well, it seems Alex took things seriously and is slapping his bitstick around. Think...
Presentation techniques
Jan wrote that he sees possibilities in Windows Presentation Foundation, for one that...
IE7Office 2007 and RSS
I’m currently using Omea Reader by Jetbrains for all my RSS subscriptions. But after ...
MSDN expired
I was browsing Google, got an MSDN link, clicked it, and got the folloing error. Stra...
Weblogs in distress
When you think hundreds of weblogs are going to blog about the new release of Windows...
Vista RC1 keys available
Last time, only 1000 keys were available. So everyone had to wait until the program o...
Debugging
I’m currently debugging an application and it says De objectverwijzing is niet op ee...
How a company can make life beautiful part 2
I’ve explained previously how I love Google. In the meanwhile I’ve read an article ho...
Newsflash
Sometimes I’m reading up on my subscribed weblogs and just see so much that I want to...
How a company can make life beautiful
It’s surprising how beautiful life can be. Some company (or someone) can just create ...
TechEd Europe cancelled?
For some reason, the news was spread around that TechEd Europe was cancelled. Even of...
Switch statement humor
Today during a code review session at a client, we spoke about using the switch state...
DotNetNuke is not open source
Rob Howard is ‘surprised‘ to find out about the Slashdot mentality. They and especial...
DivX Create software free today only!
To celebrate their 5th anniversary, DivX is giving away their normally $19.95 DivX Cr...
Everybody hates Chris on GoogleVideo
I’ve recently seen Never Scared, the HBO show of Chris Rock, which was very very funn...
Maxxed out on Avalon
I just watched a part of the keynote of the PDC05 via the webcast. I got in while Don...
World of Warcraft brings families together
When I read this, I just had to post it. People might now I like to play games and es...
How to run IE7 (Beta 1) alongside IE6
For some applications, I always want to try out the latest versions. They sometimes c...
New XML File Format
Microsoft just introduced a video on Channel9 about the new file format for Office 12...
TopDesk A super top desk application
I have always tried applications or tools like TweakUI and it’s alttab replacement. ...
DevDays Powerpoint slides
For the visitors from the Dutch DevDays 2005, you can download the slides here. I hea...
DevDays Pre Conference Day
Todat was the pre conference day for the Dutch Dev Days 2005. The topic I went to was...
Ajax A New Approach to Web Applications
A collegue of mine who’s a graphical designer (or art director, as his card tells us)...
LogicaCMG gives away 2 Media Centers at DevDays
Although we’re not (yet?) in the list of sponsors, LogicaCMG will definitly be there....
Tech·Ed 2005
The website for the European Tech·Ed 2005 is online. It also has an rss feed you can ...
DevDays – I’ll be there
Just for fun, I created this little image that says I’m going to the (Dutch) DevDays ...
Roses are
Wouldn’t you be the coolest geek with this tshirt on?Maybe I have to wear this at th...
Dutch DevDays 2005
I’m looking at the sessions that are being held at the Dutch Microsoft DevDays in Den...
FireFox extension BugMeNot
Okay, this is it… I’m convinced. I’m using FireFox! The reason is this plugin I found...
Microsoft Desktop Search
Microsoft has placed a new utility online, or suite, as they call it. It’s a new vers...
FeedReader proxy password change
Some keywords in the topic for everyone searching through Google! 😉 There’s a bug in...
Rise!
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Star Wars Hyperspace sucks, eMule rules!
I can’t believe this! I just got my Homing Beacon, the official Star Wars newsletter....
IIS vs. Apache Security Defects
This post is especially for Izendooren! 😉 Michael Howard was curious about how many ...
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Check out which file extension you are!...
DOS Demos working again!
I’m kinda bored at work with no account to logon to the development network, so nothi...
MataDor – Free junkmailspam Bayesian filter for Outlook 2003 with C#
I’ve found a spamfilter for Outlook 2003 that looks very promising!A Spanish blogger ...
New skins for .Text – LuxInterior
Gosatango has created a new skin for .Text, called LuxInterior. It’s a really nice sk...
dotNED meeting with Juval and Ingo
I was at the dotNED meeting yesterday in Purmerend. dotNED organized this because the...
BlogJet & .Text
Thanks to Dmitry, creator of BlogJet, after contacting Scott, creator of .Text, our b...
Enhancing user experience with pictures
I’m constantly looking for ways to enhance user experience on the applications I buil...
Testing BlogJet
BlogJet 1.1 has been released. I’ve just this program in beta and since using my 1.0 ...
The SQL Server Goddess?
I’ve read it first here, but this guy claims to be the first. He claims that if you d...
Extremely important
Although so very offtopic, it’s extremely important news. At least to me it is! Het h...
Most web users aren’t techy, like us!
It’s quite funny to read about how most users browse your website or web application....
WindowsXP SP2 is coming… and bring some troubles along the way
Microsoft is about to release Service Pack 2 for WindowsXP in a few months, if I’m no...
Messenger Plus! 3.0
Although I still like ICQ much better, with Messenger Plus! 3.0, Microsoft’s Messenge...
Windows 95 & 98 makes it to Pocket PC
This is definitly something I would try to install on my PocketPC, if I had one! Some...
The daily WTF
A now blog has been born, and it’s called The Daily WTF.First of, it’s funny to see t...
VB6 mousewheel fix
Lorenzo Barbieri questions himself why he hasn’t found this sooner; the VB6 mousewhee...
Offtopic Usas on your mobile
A long time ago, in a home far, far away… I was sitting behind my MSX homecomputer pl...
International .NET ass
I just have to point you to this blogpost! 🙂...
BlogJet – Update post problem
I’m having problems with BlogJet nobody seems to be able to help me with. No matter w...
Longhorn WinHEC Build 4074 available on MSDN
The Longhorn WinHEC Build 4704 was placed on MSDN Subscriber downloads yesterday. If ...
MSDN Subscriber downloads is sloooooow
I started downloading Office 2003 and Visio 2003 yesterday. I stopped it around 1600...
100% guaranteed interpretation free Visio UML shapes
I first saw this topic at Ingo Rammer’s blog and downloaded it, althought I hadn’t us...
Visual Blogger 2004 test post
Robert McLaws released Visual Blogger 2004 and as far as I can tell, it’s especially ...
Page 23, why am I posting this again?
“Any logic that runs on the server needs a server roundtrip to respond to anything th...
Keyboard Assistance
Dit soort dingen ben je eigenlijk altijd naar op zoek. Microsoft heeft een pagina waa...
Test van BlogJet
Ik ben aan het proberen om BlogJet aan de praat te krijgen. Het ziet er in ieder geva...
Waarde teruggeven aan DOS Shell
Ik was pas geleden weer bij een ‘oude’ klant van ons, waar een door mij ontwikkelde V...
Smart Clients
We hadden het kortgeleden over smart clients in de reacties van WinForms vs. WebForms...
IPattern
Maxim Karpov (wie?) heeft een weblog gestart. Op zich zijn er meer, maar deze beste m...
Portals & Integration Airlift
Edwin Waegemakers heeft wat Powerpoint presentaties van het Portals and Integration A...
.NET support
Na de commotie om inline SQL vs. Stored Procedures met Rob Howard en Frans Bouma (lee...
Life of a contractor
Rory heeft weer een geweldige comic online gezet....
Java spirit
Als je dit artikel leest, is het geen wonder dat dat ding twaalf dagen nodig had om 8...
Goed krabben
Vreselijk offtopic, maar wel bijzonder interessant om te weten! Het volgende vond ik...
Microsoft patcht adresbalkbug Internet Explorer
Ik lees net op Tweakers dat Microsoft eerder dan verwacht met een patch komt voor de ...
version 2.0
Dit is echt sick! Ik zie net op Robert McLaws’ weblog dat in Amerika iemand zijn zoon...
Knowledge Base Alertz.com
Dit kwam ik zojuist tegen vanaf asp.net. Een website welke je op de hoogte houdt van ...
The right to safe updates
Wat een ontzettende zak hooi, die Peter Coffee van eWeek.Je kunt hier een artikel lez...
Factory design pattern
Nog meer voer om te lezen, ik word gek van internet! Vroeger vond ik het leuk omdat j...
Floating divjes
Voor diegene die nog steeds aan tables hangen, als ze HTML gaan kloppen… Moet je op d...
Lezen, lezen, lezen…
Ik wilde nog heel veel bloggen over wat ik allemaal gezien, ging lezen, etc..Ik kan n...
ProFont voor je VS.NET
ProFont is een speciaal font wat dat je kunt gebruiken in je ontwikkel omgeving. Het ...
Longhorn tweak guide
De eerste, speciaal voor Rutger! De Longhorn tweak guide....
Benchmarks & Bikinis
Whidbey & benchmarks; Als je Whidbey installeert, en je gaat akkoord met de License A...
Lorum Ipsum
Pas geleden kwam Jacco naar me toe om te helpen met HTML voor een website. Een design...
Nieuwe computer
Als je een nieuwe computer wilt aanschaffen, kan ik je misschien een beetje in de goe...