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Interoperating with Flash

I've never seen Flash developers as 'real' developers, they don't write real code. They usually come from a design background and always seems focused on transitions and blending rather than aggragations and inheritance. From time to time you have to face the unknown and step into new territories. I recently had to make a

The beauty of SSH

In some cases it might be desirable to get access to your home network. This could be servers, printers, client PCs, etc. At home I have a Firefly Media Server, formerly known as mt-daapd, with all my digital music. Firefly is a cool media server that can stream .mp3, .ogg, .flac, .aac, and .wma. It also

Hattrick

Since 2002 I've been playing an online football manager game called Hattrick. I joined the game while I was still studying and it started as a competition with some of my fellow students. They have since stopped playing the game, but I can't leave it. I don't use the same amount of time that I

Back…

Since October I've had difficulties finding the motivation and time for this blog, my appologies. I assumed that this will change for time to come.

Arrived in Los Angeles

After travelling for 16,5 hours, I've finally arrived in Los Angeles. I'm travelling with a good collegue of mine. We transfered in Amsterdam. I was unlucky and obviously the worlds tallast man got seat right in front of me. He insisted in having his seat laid down, which made the journey somewhat discomfortable. And

Selected sessions for PDC 2008

With only a week left till Microsoft PDC 2008, I've started to focus on which sessions I'm going to attend. At the moment my list of sessions looks like this: Day 1: Microsoft Visual C# IDE: Tips and Tricks Learn tips and tricks that will make C# code editing faster and more fun using

One new mobile for me…

I don't know about you, but when ever I have to buy anything, whether its a car, camera, mobile, laptop, etc., I spend a long time researching the market. It has taken me more than six months to find the right mobile for me. I like reading reviews, finding the right price, comparing products,

ErrorProvider providing localization difficulties

The .Net framework provides several mechanisms for indicating invalid user inputs. You can use a MessageBox to indicate that the state of the control is not valid. A MessageBox can then provide the reason and remedies in the popup dialog box. Having several controls that needs user input this approach can be both cumbersome

Registered for Microsoft PDC 2008

A couple of weeks ago I pursuited my employer to let me register for Microsoft Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles. The conference is set to rumble from the 27th - 30th of October. It will be held at the Los Angeles Convention Center. I've registered for pre-conference as well, which is a day-long

Connected or not…?!

A few days back, my wife experienced a weird network issue on her laptop. Usually the laptop receives an IP address immediately on start-up, but this day she received the following network error message: "Limited or no connectivity." What does limited connectivity mean, is there a connection or not? The message did not say