Shawn Wildermuth passed the torch to me (among others) in a new version of an old blog-theme. Oh well, these are always fun . It's more or less an interview-like way of pulling trivia out of people, so here we go! How old were you when you first started programming? I was 16, my younger brother and I...

I've again disabled the email form on this blog, because I now get about 15 spam emails every 5 minutes through this form and enough is enough. Apparently it's not fixable by the blog-engine overloads, so this is the only option. If you want to contact me, my email address is on the about page.

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...

After several months of using the Free version of the ClearContext addon for Microsoft Outlook, I just cant imagine what I would do without it. It has reduced my email time, kept me more organized, and uncluttered my Inbox better & faster than any ad-hoc system I have devised in the past. As a developer...

Our company ppedv have the focus on Microsoft knowledge transfer. We are offering our services like training and coaching in Germany in 5 city's (München, Karlsruhe, Köln, Siegen, Burghausen). A few weeks ago we opened our new center in vienna (austria) . The strategy is to offer 5-star training and...

I have ordered the a new tablet pc for me. The product description says "non glare" anti reflective. You can see the new Fujitsu T4220 right and my old T 4010 on the left side of the picture. On the right side you can see the windows, the house, the red roove. Does anybody can work with a display like...

This week I had to temporaly use a different user on my machine. So at first I thought I had to move all my settings (outlook profile, firefox bookmarks, vms, etc) from my primary user to this new one. This is not a nice task. Hopefully I remembered the runas command which allowed me to run the above...

I am generally one of those people that hear people complain about a bad experience with a product and disregard it as one person's bad luck. When people lecture "it could happen to you", I think "Yeah right. I guess it could happen to me. But it never will." You can call me an optimistic skeptic. And...