juni 2006 - Posts

26 juni 2006
Improve visual with ClearType
A couple of days ago I downloaded the ClearType PowerToy to see if the readability of Windows on my laptop and TFT screen could be improved. The theory of ClearType is that it will anti-alias your fonts, so that the transitions from black to white are smoother, and more natural curves can be achieved... Read More...
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22 juni 2006
Quick intro on Simple List Extensions
Microsoft is on the RSS train and has adopted the syndication format. Internet Explorer 7.0 will have support for RSS, for example by allowing you to use it as a some form of RSS aggregator. As a part of their adoption on RSS, Microsoft has again used his “embrace and extend” strategy and added Simple... Read More...
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21 juni 2006
Atom 1.0 resources
Today I spent some time on implementing the Atom 1.0 specification for my next version of KillerBlog. My blog-engine uses typed DataSets. All syndications are created by performing an XSLT transform on the XML data representation of a SyndicationDataSet. This makes it really convenient to implement additional... Read More...
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18 juni 2006
10 days until Electronic Sports World Cup 2006
It's only 10 days until the opening of the Electronic Sports World Cup (ESWC) 2006 in Bercy, Paris in France. Our team Conzto (formerly Champions) will attend the event and try their best to perform better than last year. To give you an impression of what this BIG world-wide gaming event (52 countries... Read More...
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17 juni 2006
Blinq, blinq, pimp my web app
Scott Guthrie has done a demo in his two part Tech Ed 2006 talk and also showed a demo of the Blinq prototype. Unfortunately I was not at TechEd, but he posted on it . Since Blinq is up on the Sandbox page of the ASP.NET website , I decided to check it out. Blinq creates a website built on top of a SQL... Read More...
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14 juni 2006
Part of INETA speakers bureau
Andre Obelink was kind enough to nominate me for the speakers bureau of INETA , the International .NET Association. I join the ranks of the great minds like Ingo Rammer , Dino Esposito , Alex Homer, Clemens Vasters, Jimmy Nillson and Jackie Goldstein , and so on. Two other dutch speakers are on the list... Read More...
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14 juni 2006
Localizing a sitemap
ASP.NET 2.0 has a very nice mechanism to localize resources: Explicitly using expressions such as <asp:Label ID="someLabel" Text='<%$ Resources: Common, HelloText %>' ... /> Implictly for all properties marked with the LocalizableAttribute <asp:Label ID="someLabel" meta:ResourceKey="someLabel... Read More...
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14 juni 2006
C# 3.0 for mere mortals, part 3: Anonymous types
In the previous part on C# 3.0 we talked about implicit typing and how you sometimes do not know the exact type that is returned from an expression. The feature of anonymous types is a powerful addition to the type system of the CLR. It can also be a scary one. No longer will you be able to have control... Read More...
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