It was an efficient day ...
finalized a couple of MS Access data entry screens, which were being tested using our standardized test protocols for these screens. Did an install of the IIS 6.0 Resource Kit, although I have to say...
View ArticleWeirdest Search Engine hit so far
Yesterday I received quite a strange hit to this blog. From MSN someone was looking for shopping in disneyworld. Now, probably there's a lot of mugs and puppets you can buy over there; but I can't...
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Report on Symbiots iSIMS counterstrike software. I thought about it back in March after having read their report on the rules of engagement in cyber war (thought I even wrote a little about it but that...
View Article.Stories of a .NET Newbie (1)
Lately I've been doing some development in VS.NET 2003 every day now, so I thought I 'd start writing about it. There's just so much things to the language, and almost everything I do in the...
View Article.Stories of a .NET Newbie (2)
And the story continues...:1) I tweaked the web.config settings a little bit, more precisely in the authentication section. Immediately the IDE came up with a big Microsoft Development Environment...
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(all via Robert Hurlbut's .Net Blog )Things I want to check out for myself the next weekDemo video of Hatteras, the new Microsoft Source Code Control software SQL Server Best Practices Analyzer Tool;...
View Article.Stories of a .NET Newbie (3)
1) From the MSDN Help:"Applications that implement role-based security grant rights based on the role associated with a principal object"Well, it sounds less hard than it is actually; at least to me....
View ArticleTechEd Europe 2004 is coming to town
Rumours all around the globe, now that the Web Application of the TechEd Europe 2004 has gone live yesterday. Inside the app you'll get a temporary email account on Outlook Web Access 2003 (which is...
View ArticleUPDATE: .Stories of a .NET Newbie (4)
1) Starting today I'm using Charles Carroll'sUtility Belt ASP.NET library. It's been long since I've seen something so easily incorporated into a development project. And the way .NET handles libraries...
View Article.Stories of a .NET Newbie (5)
Today there was another of these learning moments. I have this Public Class where I store all my global business related code. Now what I did was defining my first Public Function...
View ArticlePosting from Tech Ed
Just a little info here from Tech Ed 2004. I already set up a post yesterday. Unfortunately, that one was saved into the Drafts of Outlook 2003 on one of the 400 or so Dell around here, which are free...
View ArticleI'm not a social animal. or am I?
[back from 3 weeks of lovely analog holidays, hence the lack of recent posts ]I never felt attracted to social software like IRC (chat) and more recently Friendster, Orkut and its ilk. I'd rather speak...
View ArticleWhy shoulnd't I just stop blogging?
I feel exactly like decafbad wondering why he would be recycling all the news the rest of the world is talking about. Well, at least he has 889 subscribers using Bloglines (and I guess a lot more in...
View ArticleJust to tell you I'm still here...
Just read a nice article by Mike Gunderloy of Coder to Developer fame, Query Analyzer Tips and Tricks. Although I'm working in the Q.A. almost every day, there's still some things I didn't know about....
View Article"Open Office" at the Public Prosecutor
These days, here in the Netherlands, we have our own little security scandal. Let me introduce you to the story: a public prosecutor by the name of Joost Tonino in Amsterdam saw his PC affected by a...
View ArticleFresh Inspiration: logging-/debugging tool
Reading "How to be a Programmer" by Robert L. Read, I felt inspired by the part on debugging. Thought to myself: well, my not using real debugging tools lead almost always to Debug.Print debugging. How...
View ArticleDressfullness
This is a stupid test to see whether Google will pick up this word, which can not be found in it's dictionary so far. So, dressfullness is the word. I'm just curious whether people are actually...
View ArticleI've made The Switch
At my home machine, today, I finally decided to remove myself from the Administrator list. Actually, I was convinced by reading about it in a computer magazine. Thought: well, when mainsteam magazines...
View ArticleAddicted to Del.icio.US
Discovered yesterday what Del.icio.us is. Of all the things it is, the most obvious to me right now is: addictive! What a great, being a bit geeky text based interface, way of exploring the internet....
View ArticleLoads of freeware, yummie
Check out http://www.techsupportalert.com/best_46_free_utilities.htm, a list with lots of freeware programs. I'm really fond of freeware, as long as it's also free of bugs. Already seen my favorite...
View ArticlePrductivity is linearly related to concentration
Read a very interesting post over at the Coding Horror blog, called This is your Anti-Productivity PodIt's a wonderful explanation of what I see the main problem at my work: productivity loss due to an...
View ArticleOn Speaking Terms
On of the things making it difficult for me as having no CS background, is the words people tend to use every now and then ...what on earth is a property accessor(fifth paragraph) anyway?[disclaimer:...
View ArticleSikko2Go's newDiscoveries
Server Side Guy Chris Justus' Blog about bug tracking, web services etc. Bumped into it via del.icio.us popular, referring to an article about how the newest feature originating from GoogleGoogle...
View ArticleJavaScript SyntaxHighlighter
Just found a great Syntax Hightlighter. It consists basically of a JavaScript file, while you can easily copy and paste your code in a <TEXTAREA>. Works for VB(.NET), SQL(via)
View ArticleLast Post, farewell
I'm not completely stopping to blog, but from now on I want to go under my real name, and not under disguise anymore, as I did until now.Therefore I'm quitting this blog. I hope you had a good time...
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