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Came across the Mono Project page today. Its wonderful to see all those volunteers working extremely hard on implementing the whole BCL and all other projects in Mono. ASP.NET 2.0 is almost implemented. They’ve decided not to implement precompiled websites and the WebParts API. For compatibility testing, they’ve release MoMA(Mono Migration Analyzer). I’ve been running [...]

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Yes I’m. I’m actually finishing my last days at the great company LECTRIC. I’ve had a fantastic time with lots of really cool colleagues. I’ve learned a lot. Starting as a 17 year script kiddie. Look me now, nearly 4 years later, in age, the wisdom I’ve collected is hardly to describe in years. I’m [...]

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Dear Derek Roberti, First of all I’m glad to see you blogging. And you spend a lot of time on good post. This time I just want to add a note which should be common knowledge for all Sitecore Developer. Alex Shyba wrote a comment, but I would expand this a little. The DisplayName of [...]

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Let me be clear, I like Silverlight. I like the idea of using XML for data-driven web interaction. I also like it to see the CLR run in such a small package. You might even want to call it Micro Language Runtime. Its extremely fast as well. Unbelievable how quick movies load. I don’t need [...]

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Got challenged yesterday by a community member. This experienced guy had the following statement: Just give every object which handles strings a StringBuilder. The overhead is minimal and the performance is maximum. I do not believe this at all. And although it might be a very micro optimization, it found it worth to try.For quick [...]

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With the public release of Visual Studio 2008 this month, .NET 3.5 and particular C# 3.0 is released to the broad public. This does mean that the new functionality will be exposed a lot. And I guess Extension Methods will be the most used functionality.I’m actually not 100% happy with this language extension. Of course [...]

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It’s been a while since I’ve been actively blogging about some core parts of Sitecore. As the guys in Copenhagen are working really hard on a release called ‘Crestone’, It becomes time again to get you guys 100% up-to-date. Well back to the current release. Take the last build: 5.3.2 rev. 071220. It does contain [...]

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Today I came across these two blogpost by some Microsoft chaps. They are generally about memory leaks in Sharepoint. The usage of disposable objects, etc. It seems like Microsoft has a lot of object which needs to be disposed over and over?! Yes we’re talking about a tool written in a managed language! And ofcourse, [...]

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While Lars is presenting it using a WebMeeting tool, I’m downloading Xpress… And all of you should!Xpress is only in licensing what you call Sitecore Light. So you don’t have more then 1 concurrent editor, its just for your personal sites and you are allowed to run it on just 1 machine. But that won’t [...]

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Like last year, I’m again a jury member for the dutch version of ThinkQuest. Thinkquest is a competition for youngsters who create together with coaches(school teacher, parents, etc) educational websites. Here’s a short description from the international ThinkQuest website: ThinkQuest inspires students to think, connect, create, and share. Students work in teams to build innovative [...]

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