Peter Koen's WebLog

How Nerdy am I?

2005-01-06T13:10:00Z

New Job

2004-11-14T01:18:00Z

Quite some time passed by with no new entry in my weblog. This has to change. So here is the big news.

2^nd November 2004 I started a new career, I'm now an Application Development Consultant (ADC) for Microsoft Austria.

It's my responsibility to help our customers to solve technical problems when developing applications with Microsoft Technologies.

SQL Server Usergroup Austria Summeracademy

2004-09-10T16:47:00Z

Yesterday we had the first MS SQL Server 2005 event from the SQL Server Usergroup Austria Summeracademy (http://academy.sqlexperts.at). It was a full success, many of our members had for the first time in their lifes the chance to use a Microsoft SQL Server 2005. We did many Hands On Labs with topics like T-SQL Enhancements, XML, .NET Integration and SMO.

Chris wrote a report about this: http://chrison.net/PermaLink,guid,ed9bff9a-39e9-4ee4-9e24-6792ff390997.aspx

Stay tuned for future events and join the SQL Server Usergroup Austria (http://www.sqlexperts.at)

New Article released

2004-09-10T16:43:00Z

Open your favorite .NET application, then close your eyes and try using the program. Tough, isn't it? But that's what using your applications may be like for disabled computer users. As a responsible developer, you can solve this problem by using these techniques to add Active Accessibility features to your application.

My new article called How to Build Accessible Windows Forms Applications with .NET has been released at www.devx.com

You can find it here: http://www.devx.com/dotnet/Article/21755/0

MCP Exams...

2004-09-10T16:41:00Z

Congrats to the attendees of my MCP Curriculum in Schlieren (Switzerland, near Zürich). All of them passed the exam!

Teaching MCAD in Zürich (Switzerland)

2004-08-31T11:56:00Z

Well, i haven't written a blog entry for some time now, so i thought I'd just inform you about what's going on in my life...

1) right now I'm teaching a MCAD Curriculum in Zürich. It was organized by the local Usergroup Leader, Stephan Troxler and we managed to arrange really cheap rates for the attendees. 2000,- Euro for 2 weeks full of .NET Knowledge.
Last week we started on monday with a quick overview on C# and object orientation. The next days we worked through the MOC about Programming the Framwork with C# (Signing, GAC, Assembly Binding, CodeAccessSecurity, Delegates, Multithreading, HelperClasses, and all that neat stuff that helps you to make rock solid applications). On Friday we started with ADO.NET and saturday was completly focused on a WinForm Application and the usage of the CurrencyManager.
On Sunday finally a day off - went to Singen(Hohentwiel) (Germany) for a short walk on an old eroded vulcano.
Monday back at school with ADO.NET and we are focusing on ASP.NET Development.
On thursday will be the MCP Exam....... good luck to all my attendees.

2) Still working on the website for the Vienna Symphonic Library at http://www3.vsl.co.at This project just doesn't want to get finished... Still lot of coding work to do and there are also no indizes on the database because it's all still in development...

3) Working on a Texture Generator for Serious Magic (http://www.seriousmagic.com). I love this project, specially for the technologies I use here: ATL, MSXML, .NET
And of course I'm going to implement all the neat gfx algorithms. These are already finished: Perlin Noise, CellularPattern, Glowing Rectangles, Gradients, Blend Functions, Bump Mapping, Displacement, Expose, Color Adjust, Affine Transforms, Matrix Operations and many more.
Seems like this will be one of the best tools I've build 'til now.

Well, this is enough for now. Don't expect a major update in the future because I'm really busy....

Cool Blog

2004-08-02T15:42:00Z

Christoph Wille, a fellow MVP created a new Blog about the future of .NET Programming.

Visit him at http://chrison.net/

Werkkzeug 1.0 released

2004-06-23T23:29:00Z

Farb-rausch has released their toolkit for producing high-quality 3D graphikdemos:

You can download it here: www.theprodukkt.com/werkkzeug1.html

.NET Community Conference

2004-06-02T14:57:00Z

Putting unity back into community in Karlsruhe/Germany.

I'll have two talks, one about web security and the other one about Microsoft SQL Server 2005.

More details here: http://www.dotnetcommunityconference.com

Announcing the first MVP Brothers Security Talk

2004-05-25T01:28:00Z

Together with my MVP Brother Christoph Wille I'll be giving a talk about web application security at the dot net community conference in Karlsruhe.

For details check this links (attn: german site):

Hack Me Corp.

Site Invaders

Add Flash to Your .NET WinForms to Create Skinable UIs

2004-05-19T09:36:00Z

One of the most powerful uses of Flash today is to create more power user interfaces for conventional software, such as client-server applications. This article is a great introduction to Flash for .NET developers who want to take their WinForm designs to the next level. ...

If you want to read more about skinable UIs check out my new article at www.devx.com:

http://www.devx.com/dotnet/Article/21033

Even more fun with google

2004-04-15T16:27:00Z

Check out this search:

http://www.google.com/search?q=intitle:%22Index+of%22+web.config

" .... "

Have some fun with google

2004-04-15T09:16:00Z

http://www.google.at/search?hl=de&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=filetype%3Amdb+admin&meta=

I'm sure you'll have fun with this search....

Ego Shooter in 96kb

2004-04-15T07:34:00Z

Beta 1 of kkrieger, an ego-shooter doom3 like game in 96kb has been released this weekend:

http://www.theprodukkt.com

This games needs DirectX 9.0, and a high-end graphicscard (Pixelshaders)! Everything has been done with Visual C++ and x86 Assembler!

Here's a screenshot:

My visited countries

2004-04-01T22:49:00Z

Everybody seems to be posting his visited countries, so I think I should do that to :)

Still plenty of white space left...