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Added OpenSearch!
Thanks to Scott Hanselman's post about Adding OpenSearch to your website and getting in the Browser's Search Box, I've also added the OpenSearch ability…
Booting for Lazy People – Wake On LAN
Just had some fun enabling Wake On LAN on one of my computers. A great technology for the lazy people among us, you simply sit in your chair and realize…
Temporary Break - Request for Subjects
After 21 days of posting something daily, I need a little break, for several reasons:
The Selfish Side of Social Bookmarking
Social bookmarking, one of the Web 2.0 hypes, allows you to share links with each other. This great video from Common Craft very clearly explains what…
Different Actions - Same Result
Long ago, I had a chat with someone about the fact that there are too many different ways in Photoshop to do the same thing. He believed this was a bad…
Some Downtime
The blog experienced a bit of downtime today due to a software problem. When bringing everything back up, things seemed worse however. My personal wiki…
allTunes/Mp3Sparks/AllOfMp3 Business model
Everyone knows them, the controversial Russian-based online music store.
Moved Site - United Domain
After 3 years of blogging on weblogs.asp.net, I've taken the big decision of moving out.
Virtual PC Differencing Disks Hierarchy
A long time ago, I talked about Differencing Disks in Virtual PC.
What happened on August 27, 2001?
Internet Explorer 6 was officially released.
Starting DirectX Adventures
This week I started playing around with Managed DirectX (MDX) and it's a really fun thing. I attempted it a couple of times a long time ago, but never…
Presentation: eID in .NET
Yesterday I gave a presentation about eID in .NET, if somebody is interested I have uploaded the presentation together with some sample code to my…
eID
Another thing I had to do was a feasibility study on eID. This means I had to look into this technology, research what the possible uses are, if they can…
Virtual PC - Differencing Disks
During my internship I had to test against different kinds of products, and to be sure everything worked on a clean install of this product, I had to…
Asp.net 2.0 On Tour
On March 2, 2005 the ASP.NET 2.0 On Tour came to Belgium, Brussels. This is an international tour, all about the latest Microsoft technology, featuring…
Blogging
Blogs are a new communication medium, mainly used as a single-direction information channel. On a blog, the owner publishes new posts, which can be read…
Virtual PC
Another tool I had at my disposal was Microsoft Virtual PC. This is a product that enables you to run several operating systems inside your existing one…
NSurvey - MapPoint Integration
NSurvey provides charting reporting by default, but this could be enhanced by using the Country List control together with the added Belgian Regions. With…
NSurvey - Pie Charts
NSurvey already provides general charts displaying the results, but it uses a bar chart and I had to output pie charts as well. So, I implemented them as…
SharePoint
For the Microsoft Student Council, I decided to write a small database application that would keep track of the users their points. The council has access…
NSurvey - Answer Types
By default NSurvey provides different kinds of answer types. These are for example Basic Field, Rich Field, Calendar Field, Email Field, Hidden Field…
NSurvey - Belgian Regions
One of the standard controls of NSurvey is the Country List, which provides a dropdown list of countries. Belgium is one of these countries, but when you…
NSurvey - Matrix Questions
NSurvey supports matrix questions in its surveys. The only problem with this type of question was that in the reporting section of NSurvey, it listed each…
NSurvey - Microsoft Layout
As this application was going to collect feedback from Microsoft events, it had to look like it belonged to Microsoft, and it had to be designed…
NSurvey - Survey Overview
The first thing I noticed is the small dropdown in the admin section listing all available surveys. This would become my starting point for users, a…
NSurvey
For one of the projects I had to do, I had to create an online survey application, which would be used to gather feedback from Microsoft events. Up until…
Reflector
One of the tools I had in my toolbox was Reflector. This tool is written by Lutz Roeder and allows you to examine a .NET assembly. Through the use of…
Is a CAPTCHA test really the way to go?
CAPTCHA tests have become more and more popular. These visual confirmations needed to do some action, post a reply, register somewhere, ... can now be…
BENUG Test Driven Development Session - TestDriven.NET
Today I went to a BENUG session about test driven development, and I finally got NUnitAddin to work ;)
Six Invites to the Most-Hyped-Mail-Service-Of-The-Year, aka GMail
Ah, well, 11 blog posts on a day is fine as well :p
BENUG Hands-on workshop on TDD - Location Info
On 9 September 2004 there is a Hands-on Workshop on TDD organized by BENUG.
Blog-post record - Using ndiswrapper
Wow, apparently I made 8 blog-posts today (9 now), that's a record ;)
New site for Dutch teachers - Lerarenforum.be
In case there are some Dutch teachers reading this, I just finished a forum site exclusively for teachers...
New Student Site - Interview with Jan Tielens, Wouter Sergeyssels, Patrick Verbruggen, Tom Mertens and Gerd De Bruycker
During the holidays I recreated our internal school site, and reformed it to a place for students.
Nothing compares to you...
It's a great song, forgot who's the artist, but here is a piece of code that came forward when hearing this song:
Bad IT people
First of all, sorry for not posting much lately. It's a very busy time, I just finished working for a month, gonna buy a new laptop, a Dell.
Microsoft Products & Games
If anyone needs a link to a Microsoft product or game, check these out:
Accessibility Guide on Webdevelopment
I discovered a very usefull Accessibility Guide on websites today.
.NET Magazine - Edition #5
I just received mail that a new edition of .NET magazine will be available soon. Edition number 5.
New site launch! PC Guru!
Today I launched a new site, called PC Guru.
Codezone Magazine
I just received the 01/2004 edition of the Codezone magazine.
Importance of Error Messages
.NET gave me an error… A ‘Catastrophic failure‘.
WiFi - Developer Fusion - Writing Secure Code
It's been a while since my last post. I got injured, my hand got injured, and that's a really really bad thing when you do everything on a computer :(
Microsoft Convention - Belgium
Today I went to the Microsoft Convention, in Brussels, Belgium.
Ancient Technologies - RPG & AS/400
I just finished a school project in RPG. In the beginning I hated RPG and the AS/400 it was running on. When you're used to writing languages like PHP…
Notepad bug? Encoding issue?
Someone showed me a weird text file today. It was a bat file with 'copy MeYou.bak MeYou.txt'. When you would ran it, it would work. But when you opened it…
Hardware lasts longer under Linux - or how politics don't have a clue.
As you can read at Jan Tielens' Bloggings, one of our political parties suggest using Linux instead of Microsoft products.
Orkut - An Overview
Well, about a month ago (I guess), a lot was going on about Orkut. And now I got in, actually I could get in a lot earlier because I got invited by…