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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
While at the DevDays several people came up to me after the sessions. A couple of them had very interesting questions. Constantijn Enders of LogicaCMG asked me where to catch any exceptions that are thrown during an asynchronous page or task. I responded that it should be in the End... handler for the...
Here are the slides and demo code to my DevDays 2006 presentation "ASP.NET 2.0 Black Belt". Make sure you check the hidden slides as well. There's some nice extra info on them. Also, if you visited my talk on the first day, notice the updated slide on the architecture of Query Notifications. I'll explain...