My name is

David Cumps

Freelance software engineer

A passionate geek, always curious, always learning.

A JavaScript bookmarklet that shows every image linked from an open directory listing on one page.

A first look at Orkut, Google's invite-only social network: profiles, friends, communities and a lot of personal questions.

DevDays 2004 Belgium day 2: David Chappell on the road to Longhorn, then Avalon, Indigo, WinFS and Whidbey.

Tim Sneath's two-part DevDays 2004 session on .NET for sysadmins: csc, ildasm, strong names, the GAC, ngen and deployment.

Tim Sneath's ASP.NET for pros session at DevDays 2004 (web.config, worker processes, tracing) and an overview of ASP.NET Whidbey.

DevDays 2004 Belgium day 1: which Whidbey builds we got, and the start of my session notes.

Steve Riley's DevDays 2004 keynote: a beer-bringing robot, building security in from the start, and help that adapts to its user.

Getting to DevDays 2004 in Ghent: the train from Bruges, the ICC, free breakfast with over 1000 attendees and Bruno Segers' opening.

Compuware's lunch session at DevDays 2004 on writing .NET apps, and the USB flashlight we got from it.