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• New year, new blog

  Happy New Year everyone! 2006 is already upon us and to keep myself busy in this new year, I've decided to move my weblog to a personal domain at jvdb.org . The first post over there is already up, dealing with Software Transactional Memory and titled... Posted Jan 02 2006, 02:16 PM by jvdbos with | with no comments Filed under: General

• Yahoo customer care frustrations

  Why can't Yahoo customer care simply do what their name suggests? A couple of days ago, I sent an e-mail to Yahoo customer care asking about whether it's possible for me, as a resident of The Netherlands, to subscribe to a small business web hosting package... Posted Dec 20 2005, 12:36 PM by jvdbos with | with 65 comment(s) Filed under: General

• Anyone up for annual software tax?

  I've been fairly critical of the Virtual Server 2005 R2 plans , mostly because I felt it to be unreasonable for current customers to have to invest in a new license just to be able to use their $999 Virtual Server 2005 Enterprise license effectively with... Posted Dec 16 2005, 04:21 PM by jvdbos with | with no comments Filed under: General, Virtual Server

• The SOA was good, the DSL Tools were better

  It's been an excellent week at TechEd Europe! I know it's been over for two days but I just now found some time to write about it. I've visited lots of sessions, mostly the ones about SOA since that was my focus this year, to get a good idea of what the... Posted Jul 10 2005, 10:57 PM by jvdbos with | with no comments Filed under: General, Services, TechEd

• MSN Search RSS license destroys usefulness (updated)

  In a post discussing the upcoming MSN Spaces API, Dare Obasanjo writes: After noticing the difference in the media response to the ability to get search results as RSS feeds from MSN Search and the announcement of the Yahoo! Search Developer Network it... Posted Mar 05 2005, 06:46 PM by jvdbos with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: General, Services

• Yahoo! releases Web API SDK

  Wally mentions that Yahoo! has released an SDK to interface with several of their search engines using (what else?) webservices. According to the documentation, Yahoo! will allow 5,000 queries per 24 hours for everything except Local Search, which is... Posted Mar 01 2005, 04:31 PM by jvdbos with | with no comments Filed under: General, Services

• Avoiding Red/Green/Debug

  Thanks to NUnit , unit-testing in a .NET-environment is really easy. With good tools however, it's still fairly easy to make stupid mistakes. One of the things I've learned when constructing unit-tests is that you shouldn't reuse testing code to create... Posted Jan 03 2005, 09:25 AM by jvdbos with | with no comments Filed under: General, C#, Software Development

• Off to a good start...

  That's right, one of my resolutions is to write to my blog again, so here I am on the first day of 2005 doing exactly that. It's been quite a hectic past four months with my .NET-project actually getting finished and released. But before we get into that... Posted Jan 01 2005, 09:00 PM by jvdbos with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: General

• Feedback center feedback

  When is a bunch of people actually a community? I started thinking about this a couple of days ago mostly out of disappointment with the product feedback center . Last wednesday I commented about how a suggestion of mine was closed with the resolution... Posted Jul 26 2004, 08:48 AM by jvdbos with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: General

• Out with the suggestion, in with the bug

  I filed a new bug regarding the standard Windows Forms TabControl which is something I ran into with .NET 1.1 and somehow still hasn't been fixed. My other TabControl-related suggestion is now officially resolved. What's funny is that the resolution is... Posted Jul 21 2004, 09:40 PM by jvdbos with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: General, Windows Forms