december 2005 - Posts

21 december 2005
Transaction committed and JIT reflections
Well, the transaction locks had been held for exactly 10 years, before we entered the 2-phase commit stage. Luckily (for me), all participants in the transaction voted a commit. Or, in plain English: Nicole Roestenburg and myself got married yesterday 20th of December 2005. We did a photo-shoot at the... Read More...
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13 december 2005
Event validation of controls in ASP.NET 2.0
This is the second part in a post on EventValidation in ASP.NET 2.0. In this post I will address the topic of event validation. This new feature becomes apparent when trying to use client callbacks in combination with new values for controls. If you are unfamiliar with the topic of client callbacks and... Read More...
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08 december 2005
My five euros on it: Fake!
Nope, we're not talking female lactoid devices here. I'm talking about balls. No, not those either. I mean the bouncing balls from the Sony Bravia LCD TV commercial . If you don't know it, watch it first, then read on. Anyway, Albert Alberts of KPN-Internet Solutions has posted an entry on his blog ... Read More...
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02 december 2005
SNARF to rescue you from your mail overload
When there is not a lot of time, you would triage bugs in software development and select the most important bugs you might want to fix. Take the idea to your email list and you are triaging your mail messages. This is where Microsoft Research has stepped in and created the tool SNARF: Social Network... Read More...
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01 december 2005
Don't get strangled by this code
Going for an all-time low humor level here. I made it up myself, so blame me if it spoils your day. :D What animal is hidden in this piece of code? public class Boa { public Boa() { } } Surely, there is no explanation needed. Read More...
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