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Posted in Others on Feb 1st, 2009
Figured just out that when starting programs in my newly installed Windows 7 installation, I’m always searching for the name of the program. For those who are not familiar with ’searching in the startmenu’, please have a look at the screenshot below and look particularly at the search box.
When I search for ‘Internet Explorer’ [...]
Posted in .NET, ASP.NET, CLR / BCL, Object Orientation, Others, Programming, SQL Server, Sitecore on Jan 29th, 2009
I’ve reinstalled my machine of last night with Windows 7. I’m very happy with this new platform! Thank you Microsoft. One of the final reasons to start yesterday was that my database integration in Visual Studio was broken. Of course there where many more reasons, but that was the issue which made me do it [...]
It’s funny, these days people are extremely pleased about the products from Apple. I’m absolutely happy with the usability of the iPhone, I like my iPod and I’m still asking Michael Seifert(our CEO) if I can get the first Sitecore Macbook Air . Enough commercials. I’m a fanatic Microsoft user. Most likely you are [...]
Posted in .NET, ASP.NET, Object Orientation, Others, Personal, Programming on Aug 10th, 2008
Often, when I meet developers I get the question, what do you read for literature to remain up-to-date. Or, which references do you use? Cleaning up the mess around my desk today brought me to the moment I had to put my books back together. So here’s my ‘desktop-list’ of 10 august 2008:
Laughing at the [...]
Posted in Community and the Web, Others, Personal on Aug 5th, 2008
… Steve Gedikian. You know his name? He worked at Nullsoft, the founders of Winamp. Back in the time when I was playing with my first C# bits, he left Winamp as a program manager. Somehow this guy always impressed me. Look at this blog-post why he leaves Winamp:
Over the past 10 months we’ve lost [...]
Posted in Community and the Web, Others on Aug 4th, 2008
I want to share this great lesson from Microsoft’s #1 Project Manager, J.D. Meier, on what he learned from his manager Per in effectiveness. 2 quotes from this great entry:
Next steps? Asking “next steps?” at the end of your meeting is a pretty crisp way of turning talk into action. What’s the agreement? When you’re [...]
Posted in Community and the Web, Events, Others, ThinkQuest on Feb 1st, 2008
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 and [...]
Posted in Community and the Web, Others on Jan 2nd, 2008
There’s no better time then launching your website at the start of a year. You’ll have plenty of time to optimize all the stuff you’ve to optimize during the summer and you are still able to reach your goals within a year .
So does my main CMS-resource: CMSCenter. This website was, until now only [...]
Posted in Community and the Web, Others, Sitecore Blogs on Dec 31st, 2007
It’s nearly time to wrap up. At the moment I’m finishing a White paper on some SaaS integration and within an hour, I’m going to leave the office for an evening with friends.
Up to 2008! Yes 2008… A new year for some great opportunities. There’s so much to explore! 2008 will be the year for [...]
Posted in Community and the Web, Conceptual Content Management, Others, Silverlight on Dec 9th, 2007
Yes it’s true. Today I found out that I really mess up my laptop with way to much information. Well let’s start over. Since last Friday I’ve been a little ill. Something is going on in my stomage, and really don’t know what it is. So between visiting the toilet, drinking lots of [...]
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