A couple of days ago, the community learned that Jamie Cansdale , creator of Testdriven.NET wasn't re-nominated for the MVP title. As an explanation from Microsoft , he received a vague email that in the past year, he apparently didn't do enough for the community to get the award, and also apparently...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Read: http://www.drizzle.com/~lettvin/2006/11/windows-shutdown-crapfest.html I'm simply speechless . Today I read Sam Gentile's remark that Vista itself is its own killer app. Reading the article linked above I can't believe Vista can even be considered a forward, as it's definitely a BIG step back for...

A couple of days ago, the community learned that Jamie Cansdale , creator of Testdriven.NET wasn't re-nominated for the MVP title. As an explanation from Microsoft , he received a vague email that in the past year, he apparently didn't do enough for the community to get the award, and also apparently...

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...

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...