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 stop by! See you tomorrow!

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: ryan@notanoob.org Subject: (Frans Bouma's blog...

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 post will automatically end up on the main feed...

Sahil tagged me in the never-ending-series of tagging other bloggers. This time it's about Stuff I wouldn't wanna live without . Read Sahil's list here . The funny thing about these tagging games is that despite the useless babble that's mostly cluttering the tag-posts, there are always a few gems to...

On September 17 and 18 I will be speaking at the 16th annual Software Developers Conference 2007 in Arnhem. The organizing association of professional Dutch Developers, the Software Development Network (SDN) lined up the "best of breed" national and international speakers. SDC is made up of 6 tracks...

Jeffrey Palermo blogged tonight about his new link blog . It's not really a blog, it's a feed of shared items in Google Reader. I didn't know that was possible with Google Reader. What a great concept: the info is already there in your reader, so why not add the blog items of various blogs you're reading...

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 I can't blog about what's been told there, however...

I had the pleasure to experience Niclas Nilsson’s passion for Ruby last week in Switzerland. Niclas presented Ruby on Rails at the Expo-C conference and facilitated the Ruby on Rails: A Kickstart at OOPSLA . He convinced me to give Ruby and Ruby on Rails in particular another try, so I did. This...

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 first program was completely useless and written...

So apparently some people got a free laptop which was payed by AMD and Microsoft. I say: good for them, getting gifts is always nice. (no, I didn't get one, nor would I have accepted it). However a gift from a company has a side effect: there's always a catch. Though there's some negative buzz about...