april 2004 - Posts

30 april 2004
Need a nice wallpaper?
Yesterday Rob Steenvoorden of Nokavision (Dutch) pointed me to this amazing Pocket McDeb site full of PDA stuff and... really cool wallpapers. I have atmosphere as a background at the moment: Previously he suggested the screensavers mentioned here . They were excellent as well. Read More...
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26 april 2004
Seasons galore: articles and hayfever
It seems to be the time of year for two seasons: First of all it's hayfever season again. Just after the hazel has blossomed (the one with the yellowish boogers hanging from the tree), it's now time for just about any other tree to grow flowers and start spreading pollen. As you can guess, I suffer from... Read More...
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23 april 2004
Triumph rules
Maybe you all know about this dog. Over in The Netherlands, we only have Oprah and Jerry Springer, that appear regularly on tv. Not Conan O'Brien. He occasionally has a few minutes for Triumph the Insult Dog. At the NBC site , you can find some short 2 minute fragments. But over here , you get to see... Read More...
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18 april 2004
The magic behind the mapping files
If your mapping schema is completely correct, some magic happens behind the scenes. Now, before it does, make sure that evrything is mapped appropriately, that all members of your classes have been mapped or explicitly excluded from the schema. There should be no red question marks present. Also, all... Read More...
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17 april 2004
Ladies water polo team "De Treffers" are champions
The first ladies team of water polo club “De Treffers” celebrated their championship tonight. It's the one of the two ladies teams that I train and coach. Last week they already were certain of their number one spot in the competition, but wanted to have a party in a home match. They showed... Read More...
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16 april 2004
Quickstarting ObjectSpace Mapping editor
The March 2004 Community Technology Preview of Visual Studio 2005 has a schema editor for editing mapping files for use in ObjectSpaces. This editor is accessible from a Web project as a Mapping file or as a ObjectMappingFile in a Visual Basic project. You cannot add it from Project, Add New Item...... Read More...
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14 april 2004
Working with the PagedObjectReader
The CTP March 2005 build of ObjectSpaces introduces the PagedObjectReader. This class is derived from the ObjectReader, which you already know from the PDC version. Here's a short tutorial to get you started with it. The PagedObjectReader will materialize the objects in consecutive batches of predetermined... Read More...
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12 april 2004
Review of some Florida parks
Just like Chris Sells did a while ago on four amusement parks in California , here's my list of parks and what I think of them. They are listed in the order that I visited them. SeaWorld : Great park. In retrospect this park was the least busy of all the others that we visited. No wait times for anything... Read More...
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10 april 2004
Almost kicked the habit (but didn't want to)
We're back. You might have been wondering why it was so silent on my blog the last couple of days. Or you might not. Nicole and I were away for a short vacation in Orlando, Florida from the 1st of April till the 9th. It might be a while before I get to take a overseas vacation again because of the release... Read More...
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01 april 2004
Tell me it isn't so
One of the Microsoft employees mailed me that he heard rumours that ObjectSpaces will be dropped from the Whidbey release. Now I for one had no such idea nor did I hear such things. Does anyone have any information or can someone confirm these rumours? Read More...
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