conplement AG has a new subsidiary in Neuss (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)

Since April 2008 I'm the person to contact if you would like to call on conplement's services in the geographical area of North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany.

Here's another question: Have you ever tried Mono?

This week I tried to install a differrent operating system (hint: not a Microsoft product). After installation I had to work on the command line, because this "operating system" wasn't able to find a screen !

Interesting: during the installation process, while I was presented a fully-fledged graphical interface, it was able to ... I could choose between several different "kinds" or "flavors" of the system to install, like a Server or a Destop machine - this I would call "home user friendly" - if it would have worked.

I am a user, not an administrator. I don't want to read through a glorious mass of newsgroups and documentation files to find information about how to write a configuration file to make my windowing system work ?! This is not only time-consuming ...

So much for Mono ... sorry

Side note: While my system wasn't able to find a screen I was able to find my Windows in my drawer ;-)

This week I'm at the TornadoCamp (www.TornadoCamp.NET). This is a german 5-days event covering "everything" in .NET. Several attendees had problems with installing Visual Studio .NET 2003 on a machine where the 2002 version was already installed. Oddities: sometimes the config tool (.NET Framework 1.1 Configuration) doesn't work, sometimes the MSDN library doesn't work, sometimes the debugger doesn't work.

Seems that Munch entered our odd world ;-)

What would you answer if someone asks you: "Give me three reasons why I should use C# instead of C++" ?

This is one of the harder questions where you really have to think about what to say before answering. I don't want to get into discussing which language is the better language. (Or do I?) If the person giving you such a question is your (prospective) customer, what would you say? I was asked this question at the german Visual Studio .NET 2003 Launch event this week. And before I gave an answer I asked something like 10 counterquestions ... To the best of my remembrance one of my questions was: "Does it really matter?"

btw: the "goon" is me ;-)