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02 juni 2009
Developer Days 2009

Last week Microsoft The Netherlands held another great edition of the Developer Days. With a fantastic line-up of speakers and a smooth organization I guess everyone must have enjoyed it. I know I had a good time and hope you did as well. Thanks to those of you who attended any of my sessions. I have... Read More...

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Filed under: Conferences, ASP.NET 2.0, .NET FX 2.0, Tools and Utilities, Community, Debugging, Oslo

23 maart 2009
SDN Event 30th March 2009 in Driebergen

Next Monday, 30th of March there will be an SDN event in Driebergen, The Netherlands. The central theme of the event is Testing in software. I will be there talking about two test-related topics (descriptions in Dutch): Make your software more testable with Unity : ” Software schijnt beter testbaar... Read More...

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Filed under: Conferences, Community, Visual Studio 2008, Unity

12 oktober 2008
SDN Conference 2008

This year's edition was great, maybe even the nicest ever. Noordwijkerhout and its hotel annex conference venue are a great place to stay. The previous years at Papendal, Arnhem were very nice, but I guess this one tops it. Anyway, I met loads of people, from famous to acquaintances from the community... Read More...

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Filed under: Talks, Conferences, O/R Mapping, Community, ASP.NET MVC, Unity

30 augustus 2008
Golden Oldie: Dynamically generated thumbnails article

Related to my previous post on dynamic images , a long way back I wrote a two-part article for the now deceased (paid) website ASPToday . It was about a HttpHandler implementation that would generate a thumbnail image from an existing image. The handler was accompanied by a server control that would... Read More...

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Filed under: ASP.NET 2.0, .NET FX 2.0, Community

03 juli 2008
mvpTimeSpan.AddYears(1);

My first term as Visual C# Most Valuable Professional has been prolonged for a year. Thanks to everyone out there who visited my sessions on community events and conferences, read my blog or articles. Just for reference: my online MVP profile . Read More...

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10 maart 2008
IT-Boxing event in Sofia: the Bulgarian adventure

A couple of weeks ago I was invited to participate in the IT-Boxing event that took place last thursday, March 6th in Sofia, Bulgaria. The IT-Boxing event is a one-night competition, organized by the Bulgarian Association of Software Developers (BASD), in which a couple of teams battle to be the best... Read More...

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Filed under: Talks, AJAX, ASP.NET 2.0, Atlas, .NET FX 3.5, INETA, Community

07 december 2007
First european Silverlight challenge

If you already have taken a look at Microsoft's Silverlight you might want to check out the INETA competition on building a Silverlight application . Even if you haven't, this competition is a good excuse. The challenge initially runs in nearly all European countries, with a winner per country. All country... Read More...

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Filed under: INETA, Community, Silverlight

20 september 2007
Software Developer Conference 2007

Past Monday and Tuesday the annual Software Developer Conference (SDC, before 2004 known as the Conference to the Max) was held in Papendal, Arnhem again. Loads of great national and international speakers where there to educate and entertain the 450 participants. The vibe was good and I think everybody... Read More...

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Filed under: Linq, Talks, Conferences, ASP.NET 2.0, O/R Mapping, Community, Instrumentation

09 juli 2007
Microsoft MVP

Wooooot. I've been made MVP for Visual Developer - Visual C#. Due to a rogue mail-server I didn't know until Gerard Verbrugge, the Dutch Microsoft liaison for MVPs, mailed me (on another address) with the fantastic news. Thanks go to the community and special thanks to all who have done their best to... Read More...

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Filed under: Community

17 juni 2007
Developer Days 2007: a blast

It took a couple of days to wind down again. The 2007 edition of the Dutch Developer Days were exciting and excellent. It was real nice to meet nearly everybody (or so it feels). I did get around to do both presentations on Linq and robotics. The Microsoft Robotics session was scheduled after all. So... Read More...

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Filed under: Linq, C# 3.0, Talks, Conferences, .NET FX 3.5, Community, Lego, Visual Basic, Visual Studio 2008

07 mei 2007
Speaking at Developer Days 2007

On June 13th and 14th I will be speaking at the Developer Days 2007 in Amsterdam, together with a lot of renowned national and international speakers . My talk is entitled " Applied Linq " and will cover Linq beyond the basics and give an impression of how Linq can be applied in "everyday" situations... Read More...

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Filed under: Linq, C# 3.0, Talks, Conferences, .NET FX 3.5, Community

12 december 2006
Are you my type?

The 15th episode of the Dutch .NET Magazine has dropped in the mailbox at Class-A just a moment ago. Inside are many great articles. There is also an article (I dare not say "one of them") written by Stefan Onderstal from Qurius and myself. The article focusses on the problem of the default use of the... Read More...

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Filed under: Articles, Web Services, Visual Studio 2005, Community

29 oktober 2006
INETA talk for Devgroup Stuttgart

Last wednesday I gave my first talk for INETA , since I joined the speaker’s bureau last june. I spoke on Linq and C# 3.0 for the .NET User Group Stuttgart in Germany. The powerpoint slides (as an Acrobat PDF version) and some demos that I used are included below. The talk covers the basics of... Read More...

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Filed under: Linq, C# 3.0, Talks, INETA, Community

08 oktober 2006
Slides from Software Developer Network events

This was a long time coming. I never posted the slides of the duo-presentation my colleague Frits Ankersmit and I gave at the Software Developer Conference 2006. Well, here they are. The talk was about Tips and tricks in Visual Studio 2005. Check out the slides for some nice things you might not know... Read More...

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Filed under: Talks, Conferences, ASP.NET 2.0, Visual Studio 2005, Community

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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Filed under: Talks, INETA, Community