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NDC Porto and Øredev
I presented at NDC Porto and Øredev
Podcasts & online usergroup
I've been interviewed in some podcasts...
BloggingAbout.NET is dead
BloggingAbout.NET as a (domain)name exists since December 14, 2004. As a community mu...
Upcoming sessions end 2015
Software Development Network – September 11th, 2015 The first two sessions I’ll be pr...
Miracles still do happen
It’s been six weeks since my last blogpost. And although people could’ve kept up with...
Worst day of my life
Today was most definitely the worst day of my life. I’ve decided to not use my weblog...
New era
Since November 1st I’ve switched jobs and am no longer working at ClassA. I’ve had a...
Zune player in taskbar
This is pretty sweet, you can have the Zune player in your taskbar. On previous versi...
Devnology & after party (OffTopic)
Today the Devnology meeting with Rob Vens was held at ClassA in Woerden. It was a fu...
Reinventing Programming
Just subscribed to the next Devnology meeting. This one will be an expert meeting. No...
Twikini, the mobile twitter client
I’ve owned a Windows Mobile for some time, currently the HTC Tytn which sure is up fo...
I’ll be speaking at the Microsoft Developer Days 2009
Thanks to the many votes we received on our wildcard proposals from attendees, collea...
Why developers should not be happy with a project manager
I’ve been on a fair amount of projects in the past 10 to 15 years and almost all of t...
PDC 2008 Sessions & hard drive
I just got a question from Dries which sessions I intend to visit during the PDC. Alt...
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 experiences
I just uninstalled Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 because it constantly kept crashing. A ...
Gaming for students
We used to have an XBox at ClassA for students to play on. But the older it got, the...
Office Live Workspace
You might know that I’m quite the Microsoft addict. While a lot of people are very sc...
New BloggingAbout.NET Server
If you’re looking at this, you’re looking at BloggingAbout.NET on a brand new 19″ ser...
Weighted companion cube
If you’ve finished Portal by now, you know what I’m talking about. If not, go boot up...
Wat zegt Dennis?
I’ve been a little busy with Mobile Development lately, focusing on Windows Mobile Po...
ClassA Summer Classes become Winter Classes
As I really enjoyed giving the Summer Classes a few weeks ago, the first ever real .N...
Typing test
It began on Daniel Moth‘s weblog, reading about some typing test he had done with som...
Opening links on websites
First, let me tell you how I open my websites in Internet Explorer 7 andor Firefox. ...
Developer Days
I’ve had a really good time at the Dutch Developer Days 2007, meeting a lot of people...
Summer Classes 2007
At ClassA we’re preparing for the Summer Classes. Last year was the first time we or...
Paste XML as serializable type
I had the privilege to see Steve Maine do some coding in a Microsoft SDR session afte...
Viva Las Vegas
So I arrived… Yesterday the plane landed in Las Vegas and the first thing that I saw ...
MIX07 Blogzone
Alice in wonderland, that’s how I’m going to feel like in Vegas! Speaking about wonde...
MIX’07
I’ll be attending MIX’07 in Las Vegas this year as well as the parallel MDEC conferen...
FileMon saved my career!
Okay, maybe I should be more careful with titles, but it is a catchy one! 😉 On my fr...
Running Vista; Blue isn’t my favorite color
I just blogged that I’ll be switching back to Windows XP. One of the problems I forgo...
Running Vista; I think not!
I’ve made my decision, I’m rolling back to Windows XP. I’ve been using Vista on my la...
Web 2.0
There’s been a lot of talk about web 2.0. Personally I see difference between web 1.0...
Zune experience
So I’ve been playing around with my new Zune player. I’ve listened to a ton of music,...
Tag, you’re it
Frans Bouma tagged me. As everyone is joining in on this, I can’t stay behind. So her...
Happy new year
Happy new year everyone!!! Of course we wish you all the best for this new year! At t...
Vista desktop search amp; starting applications as administrator
Via Tim Sneath I’ve learned that you can start an elevated command prompt from the St...
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...
My Zune player arrived!
Woohoo!!! Am I the first in The Netherlands to have one?! 🙂 Technorati tags Zune...
Running Vista; My Documents
Ranting coming up, you might want to skip 😉 This is not actually a Vista problem, bu...
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...
Rainbows over Rotterdam
Erwyn is regularly blogging about his Amsterdam apartment and skyline. Although I don...
IE7Office 2007 and RSS
I’m currently using Omea Reader by Jetbrains for all my RSS subscriptions. But after ...
Regional Director
Anko, my employer and colleague, became official Regional Directory today. The idea i...
Windows Live Writer
Since last night’s upgrade, BloggingAbout.NET supports Windows Live Writer 100%. And ...
LLBLGen Pro 2 article
Although I’ve written articles for magazines before, it had never crossed my mind to ...
Team Fortress 2
It’s been long, very long since we’ve heard something about Team Fortress 2. The firs...
Debugging – part deux
In the not so distant past I was bold enough to call Jan and Patrick whiners. But cur...
Demoscene found YouTube
The demoscene seems to have found YouTube.com for getting demos on the net. The winne...
Computable begrijpt er niks van!
Sorry, but this post will be in Dutch. Ongelofelijk, wat een belabberd blaadje is Com...
Smart usage of localhost as mailserver
Some things are so simple, you’d expect everyone to know these things and use them wi...
Rad Race 2006 Results
After a month we finally got to hear the results and at what place we finished in the...
RAD Race 2006
Last week Alex Thissen and I competed in the RAD Race 2006. We arrived Thursday at 7 ...
TechEd Europe cancelled?
For some reason, the news was spread around that TechEd Europe was cancelled. Even of...
XBox 360 Stand Off
A great commercial for XBox 360 did not make it onto American National TV for some re...
Anko has entered the blogosphere
Anko Duizer, who will be my colleague (and boss 😉 in a couple of weeks, has entered ...
Big change in life
Besides the fact I haven’t started yet, it can’t get much more official then this. Wh...
MIND Your Business
A rather big event was held yesterday by the company I work for, in coop with Microso...
Brining back the stoneage
I created this small internet application where people are able to register themselve...
naï, né, pù shi, nò, nej, ne, ei, tidak, nãom, Нет, nie, nage, non, nein, no or just a simple Dutch NEE!
After post 200 was about RotS, post 201 is about voting NO! today. I cannot believe w...
Revenge of the Sith
My 200th post. And dedicated to Star Wars. I’ve seen Revenge of the Sith twice now an...
Golden Earring at company party
Every year our company holds this meeting where every employee from the Netherlands i...
Dutch Developer Days 2005
So it’s official, I’m going to the Dutch Developer Days 2005. Seems I had the schedul...
Best wishes
Well, best wishes to everyone for this new year! I hope this is gonna be a great year...
WinFS delay discussion
A while back I read the article from Frans Bouma about the WinFS delay.Not until toda...
Sphear
I have been working on my own website for years! As a true developer, I have never be...
Rise!
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Dutch Bloggers
Via a trackback I discovered some more dutch bloggers. They stick to writing in Dutch...
Extremely important
Although so very offtopic, it’s extremely important news. At least to me it is! Het h...
Offtopic Usas on your mobile
A long time ago, in a home far, far away… I was sitting behind my MSX homecomputer pl...
Site and domain name
Now we’ve got the weblogs and my website is about to be completed and to be released,...
Emma
A few hours ago, I became dad for the second time in my life! Again a beautifull daug...
Delay course, part 3
For about a year, I’m waiting for a change to follow our internal Object Orientated D...
9553
I’m on this new job in Amstelveen. According to a the ANWB, this takes about 95 minut...
FreeTextBox v2.0
FreeTextBox is een ASP.NET component. Je kunt hiermee berichtenitemswhatever aanmak...
Sneeuw
Sneeuw is geweldig, totdat je een auto krijgt en de weg op moet. Dan komt er een dag ...
.NET support
Na de commotie om inline SQL vs. Stored Procedures met Rob Howard en Frans Bouma (lee...
Billy Idle
Nou, ik zit Billy, Billy Idle. Toen ze in december de klant vertelden wat de doorloop...
Ga maar wat knoppen photoshoppen
Een heel vaag gevoel krijg ik ineens.Ik kom via Chris Anderson een link tegen waarin ...
Raad van de Rechtspraak
Idle zijn is toch maar mooi. Kun je heerlijk een weblog opzetten voor iedereen, met n...
Official MCAD’r
Nou, het is zover. Ik heb vorige week donderdag mijn laatste examen, 70229 SQLServe...
eMule
Zoals je rechts op het plaatje kunt zien ben ik wat software aan het downloaden. Leuk...
Geslaagd voor MCAD 70320
Ik heb het er gisteren eigenlijk niet over gehad, maar wilde het tóch even melden! Wo...