Technology on David Cumps

Added OpenSearch!

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0200

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 to this blog.

Booting for Lazy People – Wake On LAN

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0200

Wake Up!

Not you… The computer!

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 you need to access some other computer in your house, but sadly enough it isn’t powered on. The fit among us might simply walk to the machine and boot it, but I’d rather open up some program, hit a button and with some magic the machine starts up. Funnily enough, the keyword behind all of this is appropriately named a ‘Magic Packet‘, waking up the dead from their sleep.

Temporary Break - Request for Subjects

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0200

After 21 days of posting something daily, I need a little break, for several reasons:

The Selfish Side of Social Bookmarking

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0200

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 social bookmarking is all about.

Different Actions - Same Result

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0200

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 thing, while I didn’t find anything wrong with it. Having thought about this afterwards, I have formed my opinion about it, with arguments.

Some Downtime

Tue, 14 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0200

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 kept serving me blank pages, and this blog kept saying it wasn’t installed.

allTunes/Mp3Sparks/AllOfMp3 Business model

Wed, 08 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0200

Everyone knows them, the controversial Russian-based online music store.

This won’t be another post questioning the legality of the company, there are plenty of those around. What I do want to have a look at however, is it’s technological business model and compare it to the mainstream alternative. I created a dummy user at Mp3Sparks, and started looking at the technical implementation.

Moved Site - United Domain

Sun, 05 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0200

After 3 years of blogging on weblogs.asp.net, I’ve taken the big decision of moving out.

Virtual PC Differencing Disks Hierarchy

Sat, 21 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0200

A long time ago, I talked about Differencing Disks in Virtual PC.

What happened on August 27, 2001?

Thu, 19 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0200

Internet Explorer 6 was officially released.

What just happened? After 5 years, we got a new version of IE.

Starting DirectX Adventures

Wed, 18 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0200

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 quite understood it, but now I have a good feeling about it, a sense of order and structure has shown itself in DirectX code.

Presentation: eID in .NET

Sun, 24 Apr 2005 00:00:00 +0200

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 personal website: Cumps.be

eID

Sun, 03 Apr 2005 00:00:00 +0200

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 be implemented and how they have to be implemented.

Virtual PC - Differencing Disks

Tue, 08 Mar 2005 00:00:00 +0100

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 create multiple virtual PCâ€™s. One method of doing this was to create one clean Windows 2003 installation inside Virtual PC and copy this image to a new folder for every different server I needed. This was the method I started with, but one disadvantage was that it required a lot of disk space, as the base image already required 1.8 GB.

Asp.net 2.0 On Tour

Sun, 06 Mar 2005 00:00:00 +0100

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 speakers such as David Platt and Dave Webster.

Blogging

Sun, 27 Feb 2005 00:00:00 +0100

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 and commented on by readers.

Virtual PC

Fri, 25 Feb 2005 00:00:00 +0100

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, each one of them acting as a real PC.

NSurvey - MapPoint Integration

Tue, 22 Feb 2005 00:00:00 +0100

NSurvey provides charting reporting by default, but this could be enhanced by using the Country List control together with the added Belgian Regions. With this question in a survey, as a required question, every entry would have location information. Together with MapPoint a graphical overview could be made, showing additional information per country and region.

NSurvey - Pie Charts

Tue, 22 Feb 2005 00:00:00 +0100

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 well.

SharePoint

Tue, 22 Feb 2005 00:00:00 +0100

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 to a SharePoint site, so I decided to create a WebPart that would use existing user data and integrate nicely into the existing infrastructure.

NSurvey - Answer Types