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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)

Happy 2008!
I wish everyone a wonderful 2008!

Posted Tuesday, January 01, 2008 12:53 PM by FransBouma | 5 comment(s)

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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)

Something is out of wack with the spirtual side of the branding experience
Yeah, catchy title, eh? Do I know what it means? No, I don't have the slightest idea what on earth mr. Steve Ball, group program manager for the Windows Audio Video Excellence team (what do these people do?), meant with spirtual side of the branding experience...

Posted Saturday, September 02, 2006 7:38 PM by FransBouma | 3 comment(s)

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