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Great fun ‘im Schweizerhaus’
Although I lived most of my life in Nijmegen (in the east of the Netherlands), I also lived for about four years in a little village near the German border which is called Millingen aan de Rijn. Although this village is quite busy on itself (it is a very popular place for both Germ...
Visual Studio “Orcas”…2007…2008
If you have been reading the many posts about this week's TechED that is going on in Orlando, you may have noticed the references to Visual Studio 2008 (a.k.a.) and SQL Server 2008 (a.k.a. Katmai). I'm not sure if I've been been paying attention or not, but I don't remember an...
Windows Live Writer Beta 2 and Sharepoint 2007 Blogs
I've been using Windows Live Writer for a while now, but somehow it never worked properly from behind a firewall. Moreover, Aviva Solution's weblog is based on Sharepoint 2007, and WLW did not support this type of blog, up until now... The Live! team has released beta 2 of Windows Live Writer. An...
SilverLight 1.1 Developer Reference poster
I haven’t had a lot of time to investigate SilverLight yet, but if you haven’t heard of it, I’m afraid you’ve been living in a cave for the last couple of months. Anyway, check out this great poster (click here get a full-size version).<p align="center"></p>
Visual Studio “Orcas” Beta 1 - First impressions
It arrived sooner than expected, but still, I'm glad to see Microsoft has made such an amount of progress. Last weekend I downloaded the Professional Edition and the Team Foundation Server bits and got started. My main interest is to see if it is good enough for production development. We use the...
NHibernate 1.2 best practices
One of my former collegues pointed me at a great article by Billy McCafferty which will be one of my classics. It deals with many great design and architectural patterns and the tools available to implement those patterns in a real-live production-ready enterprise solution. It’s a great document ...