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See you at DevDays 2008!
Tomorrow, May 22nd, and Friday, I'm present at the Microsoft DevDays 2008 in Amsterdam. I'm told we get special t-shirts, so it shouldn't be hard to find me . I'll be at the Microsoft Community Booth or in some sessions. If you want to say hi, please...

Posted Wednesday, May 21, 2008 11:08 AM by FransBouma | with no comments

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Microsoft has awarded me again this year with an MVP award for C#! I won't be at the MVP summit this year though (held in 2 weeks).

Posted Tuesday, April 01, 2008 4:08 PM by FransBouma | 18 comment(s)

Anti-agile hatemail
Today I received through the contact form on this blog a hate-mail from a guy who called himself 'Ryan'. Ryan used a fake, non-existing email address so the only way to respond to him is via my blog, hence this post. Let's look at the email first: From...

Posted Friday, March 14, 2008 11:35 AM by FransBouma | 35 comment(s)

To the new weblogs.asp.net bloggers
First of all: welcome. Now, as you all might know, this blog site, http://weblogs.asp.net , has a grouped RSS feed (a couple actually), which is called the 'main feed'. If you place your post in a category which is in the default list of this site, your...

Posted Tuesday, January 29, 2008 10:13 AM by FransBouma | 24 comment(s)

The waterfall which makes Agile pundits go blind
DISCLAIMER: this is a bitter post. If you get offended by this post, I'm sorry, though I had to write this. If you want to leave a comment, please do so, but as it's my blog, I'll remove comments which I think are inappropriate The last month or so I...

Posted Friday, January 11, 2008 5:13 PM by FransBouma | 37 comment(s)

Posting something with [Name] in the text fails
I'm trying to post a new article about SqlServer paging but the query SQL I was posting contained the reference to a Name field, WITH [ and ]. This gives an error in CS 3.0 here. Just for reference :)

Posted Tuesday, June 05, 2007 2:45 PM by FransBouma | 3 comment(s)

MVP summit!
Next week, the MVP summit is again reality and I'm there . I'll arrive on Sunday and will leave on Thursday, and I'll hope I'll meet a lot of my fellow MVP friends and perhaps others who are in the neighborhood It's an event that's fully under NDA, so...

Posted Friday, March 09, 2007 9:26 PM by FransBouma | 1 comment(s)

I'm tagged and happy newyear!
First of all: Happy New Year! Sahil Malik tagged me so here are the 5 useless, braincell destroying trivia about me you probably didn't nor wanted to know! My first program was a solver for a*x^2 + b*x + c = 0 on an MSX in MSX basic . That's right, my...

Posted Tuesday, January 02, 2007 2:23 PM by FransBouma | with no comments

What's an MVP? What does 'MVP' really mean?
A couple of days ago, the community learned that Jamie Cansdale , creator of Testdriven.NET wasn't re-nominated for the MVP title. As an explanation from Microsoft , he received a vague email that in the past year, he apparently didn't do enough for the...

Posted Friday, October 13, 2006 11:21 AM by FransBouma | 3 comment(s)

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