Everyone who's doing .NET 3.5 development these days will likely run into the same problem I ran into this morning: your set of extension methods grows beyond the level of a single file and you need to group them into separate sets of files or worse: you discover you have several distinct projects which...

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...

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've been on the 'alt.net' mailinglist which later became...

Ever heard the term 'Alternative rock' ? It's a term for rock music which isn't mainstream. Or something. Anyway, read the wikipedia page for the fine print . I'm a metal fan (despite the pile of trance house music I've created in a dark past ) and once in a while I listen to alternative rock to ease...

Today I read an interesting post by Arne Vajhøj in the C# newsgroup. He brought up the point that in the Java research license, which was the license the Java sourcecode was released under before it was released under the GPL, a clause was added to prevent that the reader of the code was 'brandmarked...

Update: If you think I should be shouting 'awesome' and similar words like most of the .NET community members, please take a walk down the path of 'licenses', something you all should be familiar with in every cell in your body, but by the look of all the different posts about this source release I can...

Ok, this will be my last post on the soap of TD.NET and MS (has anyone already called Hollywood? ). In the community there's some controversy starting to pop up here and there and I just want to make clear what my position is and will be. This to avoid getting pulled into any camp in this soap. My sole...

Dan Fernandez responded to my recent blogpost with a follow-up on the Jamie vs. Microsoft soap. He used an analogy to try to make his point: To paraphrase an analogy from that post, this would be comparable to a 3rd party company working around the technical limitations in the LLBGEN demo to unlock features...

See it in action here . Frankly, it doesn't really matter who's right: Jamie or the tie-with-suit (a real software engineer, you can obviously tell) at Microsoft who started this crusade. What matters is this: (the quote is from Ian Ringrose ) "Is it safe for me as a developer without a large legal department...

My interview with .Net Rocks! is now online ! . Please use this link to to get to the show's page . Carl and Richard were great, the interview was a blast although I was pretty nervous at the beginning. I hope to talk to them in person at the SDC this fall in The Netherlands. Enjoy!