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Follow-up on the 'Firefox v3.5 fiasco' by FransBouma

(Follow up to: The Firefox 3.5 fiasco ) I'd like to inform the audience that the people over at NSS , the sub-system which is responsible for the disk-trashing behavior of Firefox 3.5 (and the accompanying delays on startup) on some systems, has worked...

Software Development Meme by FransBouma

Shawn Wildermuth passed the torch to me (among others) in a new version of an old blog-theme. Oh well, these are always fun . It's more or less an interview-like way of pulling trivia out of people, so here we go! How old were you when you first started...

See you at DevDays 2008! by FransBouma

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...

this.AddAward(MVPAwardFactory.Create()); by FransBouma

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).

Anti-agile hatemail by FransBouma

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...

To the new weblogs.asp.net bloggers by FransBouma

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...

The waterfall which makes Agile pundits go blind by FransBouma

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...

Happy 2008! by FransBouma

I wish everyone a wonderful 2008!
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Posting something with [Name] in the text fails by FransBouma

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 :)

MVP summit! by FransBouma

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...
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