I just downloaded the ASP.NET MVC Preview 5 bits from Codeplex and started on my first experiment . One of the first things I did was to modify the default AccountController to use the new Form Posting and Form Validation features of the Preview 5, somebody probably overlooked updating those :) If anyone...

Long ago, I had a chat with someone about the fact that there are too many different ways in Photoshop to do the same thing. He believed this was a bad thing, while I didn’t find anything wrong with it. Having thought about this afterwards, I have formed my opinion about it, with arguments. Read more...

Yesterday I explained how you could manage your iPod through Windows Explorer . Having this ability opens up more powerful ways of managing your iPod. One of these ways for example is the ability to automatically sync your master archive stored on your computer, with your iPod. In my case it's stored...

Do you own an iPod? Are you tired of using iTunes? If you answered positive to both questions, read on! This article describes how you can manage your iPod through Windows Explorer . Read more at http://blog.cumps.be/manage-ipod-through-windows-explorer/

You’re an audiophile, and you wish to listen to music in the highest possible quality , but on the other hand, you don’t have that much disk space at your disposal to store everything as wave files. What are you to do? Meet Free Lossless Audio Codec , or FLAC for the friends. Read more at http://blog...

Lately I hear about a lot of people using VPC that their keyboard suddenly stops working inside VPC. There are a different number of keyboard issues I've heard of so far: Keyboard stops working all together. Keyboard freaks out. (CTRL key stuck) Keyboard and mouse lock up. The first issue is the one...

A long time ago, I talked about Differencing Disks in Virtual PC . Most people just have a base image and difference from that. A fairly basic technique by now. The next step however, is to think about differencing from a differencing disk. Using this technique you can set up the following collection...

Some nifty SQL statements I made last week: Firstly, listing all databases on a server. -- Get Databases SELECT name FROM master.dbo.sysdatabases ORDER BY name Secondly, a way to get all the user-created stored procedures from a database. -- Get Stored Procedures -- Type = 'P' --> Stored Procedure...

This week I started playing around with Managed DirectX (MDX) and it's a really fun thing. I attempted it a couple of times a long time ago, but never quite understood it, but now I have a good feeling about it, a sense of order and structure has shown itself in DirectX code. I'll probably blog more...

A while ago I blogged about Alternate Data Streams and how they are hidden from the users. At that time, you could presume when an ADS was present, it was something special, because not many normal files have an ADS attached to it. But yesterday I got an interesting question about XP SP2 showing a Security...