juni 2004 - Posts

29 juni 2004
It's a girl: Lieke!

Today (yesterday, 28th of June actually) at 20.25 a new world citizen is born. She is called Lieke Thissen, and of course, she's is the most beautiful baby in the world. See how Lieke's mom and dad are happy with her. Some details: 2880 grams, 53 cm long. Quiet and happy baby. Read More...

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28 juni 2004
Final phase reached

The project manager of “Witnie”, Nicole, has indicated that we may have moved into the final phase and might be starting an actual deployment scenario within hours. More on this later. Read More...

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14 juni 2004
Killer-Blog development steadily progressing

It's been kind of quiet lately. I've spent some more time developing some features on the 0.1 version of Killer-Blog. Theming/skinning are implemented (so far I've only done css theming, not the ascx style skinning such as .Text does it) and so are the categories. Only logging has been left to implement... Read More...

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14 juni 2004
I'll be there (provided that...)

Finally, I can go to the TechEd Europe 2004. I've done my registration. Now I only have to make sure that project “Witnie” will not be released in that week, but preferably the week before or after ;-) Maybe some of the Dutch bloggers that are there as well can get together for lunch one... Read More...

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10 juni 2004
Storm at Zakynthos

September of last year, Nicole and I were spending our holidays in Zakynthos, a Greek island. We were also diving there. The third day that we were there, a big tornado/hurricane (whatever the appropriate meteorological term) hit the diving school. Since I had my water proof casing for my video camera... Read More...

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09 juni 2004
Must-have developer tools for Internet Explorer

I've been using the Web Developer Accessories since version 5.0 of Internet Explorer. They are very useful. The most used feature is the extra context menu option called “View partial source”. It will provide you with the almost exact source of the selected page fragment. Comes in pretty... Read More...

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09 juni 2004
SQL Server 2000 best practices

The Best Practices Analyzer for SQL Server 2000 has been released. Check your databases for malpractices. Through Kimberly Tripp 's (the SQL Server guru) weblog. Read More...

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07 juni 2004
The Daily TimeWaster

Brought to you exclusively by PopCap games . Zuma in particular might be the reason of a possible delay on project Witnie. Our lead developer is truly addicted to this game. You have been warned! Read More...

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07 juni 2004
Localization in ASP.NET

If you have worked on localization of website you have probably done your fair share of: Setting System.Threading.Thread.CurrentCulture and CurrentUiCulture to the desired CultureInfo, retrieved from Request.UserLanguages Getting the resources from the ResourceManager using GetString and GetObject and... Read More...

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07 juni 2004
Temporary impersonation in ASP.NET

In ASP.NET scenarios it is sometimes necessary to perform impersonation of the (un)authenticated user that makes the request of a resource. This can be done easily from your web.config: <identity impersonate="true" /> <authentication mode="Windows" /> This will cause ASP.NET to run the code... Read More...

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04 juni 2004
Visual and Sharp Storms

Microsoft has been handing out this DVD “ Software and Web Engineering in Microsoft .NET environment “ containing all sessions of Microsoft Research in their Microsoft .NET Crash Course 4 at Cambridge University. One of these sessions was on a .NET implementation for Lego Mindstorms, called... Read More...

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02 juni 2004
Andrew comments on ObjectSpaces and WinFS

Andrew Conrad has started a four part series of posts on the merging of WinFS and ObjectSpaces. In part 1 he addresses why it was necessary to perform this merging. Point 4 “ Releasing ObjectSpaces out of band on GotDotNet or as a Data Access Application block “ on his agenda (it might be... Read More...

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01 juni 2004
Short attention span

Loads of time I thought it was a nasty characteristic of me. But I could jump to conclusions and say that it is something that software development teachers have in common. Craig Candera , a teacher at DevelopMentor , says it perfectly in one of his recent blog entries : “This is really a milestone... Read More...

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01 juni 2004
ObjectSpaces not in May CTP of VS2005

Maybe you already noticed, suspected or knew, but ObjectSpaces is not in the Visual Studio 2005 Community Technology Preview of May 2004. Since I assume that this build (which was released one or two weeks ago) is made a bit before that, the decision to remove it has been made long before the actual... Read More...

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