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Zelf generende software

Voor Kaboem omzetting naar .Net technologie ben ik op zoek naar de mogelijkheden van de .Net.

Voor deze organisatie moet een nieuw en flexibel CMS systeem komen waarbinnen verschillende soorten content beheerd moeten kunnen worden.
Voor dit deel gaan we een data definitie omgeving schrijven waarbij de gebruiker aangeeft hoe het soort data eruit ziet. Deze definitie wordt dan door een template geparsed en uiteindelijk gecompiled als binair object. Dit Object kunnen we dan op basis van reflectie weer gaan gebruiken in de scripts van de presentatie.. Waarom naar een binaire omgeving ? Omdat de templates voor de presentatie met C# 'gescript' kunnen worden. Hiervoor is het wel van belang dat je wel kunt aangeven waar welk veld van het dataobject moet worden gepresenteerd.

De frontend van het CMS wordt een rijke interface binnen IE. Hiervoor ga ik dus weer componenten schrijven die binnen IE gehost worden en zich met behulp van WebService gaan vullen met data. Dit zal waarschijnlijk wel in inhouden dat heel veel functionaliteit in de webservices geschreven gaat worden. Dit moeten we op een nader te bepalen moment verder uitwerken.

Naast content zijn ook polls en onderzoeken heel erg belangrijk.. Dit is tenslotte de core business van Kaboem. Voor de onderzoeken moet een mechanisme gaan komen waarbinnen de volgorde van vragen afhankelijk is van gegeven antwoorden.

Al met al een 'leuke' en uitdagende opdracht :-)

Heeft iemand ervaring met 1 van deze 'deel' projectjes.. Zo ja.. waar lagen de valkuilen ... of heb je nog op of aanmerkingen ..ik hoor ze heel graag!!!

How to get more freedom ?? Living my dreams??

The longer I think about it and talk about it, I find myself thinking on how to get more freedom.
Having worked my ass off the last couple of 17 years ( i am 34 :-)) I want to have some more time..
I always invested a lot in myself and always tried to be not The Best but I want to be in its shadow. I guess I have managed this quite well in the various jobs I've had.. :-)

In the desperate mission to get more time for myself and the family I thought I should give up my job and start for myself.. A big step in these days.. ( this was October 2003) and since 1-1-2004 I am independent.

Now I live in the Netherlands and find myself working even more hours then ever .. easy going through the 12 hours a day for 7 days a week.. This is completely crazy.. Now how to go to France and start a new line of business ??? I want more freedom and a more relaxed environment (this is hard to find in the Netherlands:-))
 First I need a job as .Net developer in France or Spain to get started in learning the culture and knowing the regulations :-)

Anyone interested and having an opening for a MCSD developer with 3 years experience in C# and 10 years in total at programming software.. I don't speak any french or spanish but my english is ok to get by..

Big projects I've worked on (solo in the development of these projects and most of them were from scratch).
http://www.movieminutes.com
http://www.grolsch.nl / http://www.grolsch.com and several satellite sites around these..
http://www.Kaboem.nl (original in VB/XML/XSLT now writing a new one completely in .Net with a redefined set of functionalities)
A customer service database web application for Cadillac Europe (everything is registered and reported from in there pursue of marketing related information)
Several internal sales rewarding games for ABN AMRO and DELTA LLOYD
www.engin.nl
www.movieguide.nl
Client-server application for the woman shelter in Amsterdam (NL) (now in maintenance by me for new functionalities)

I guess I have done enough to prove my skills :-)

Anyone in need???.. Wherever in the world if it is not on a hectic environment and if the relocate my family too is also possible (I want to do some paragliding there too so a bit of mountains is preferred but where in the world -- I can build my home everywhere as I am not attached to anything here in the Netherlands :-) (this is for Serious)

Starting a camping or running a pension is a later option :-)

A dream is there to help you reminding you .. and needs to be pursued   (I do my best !!!)

A new site for The European Association of Co-operative Banks

As said  in the title I will be releasing a new site for The European Association of Co-operative Banks in the next few days..
They will need to fill this and test it thoroughly but the first tests were fine.

The site is split in a public and private part. In the private part the various groups have their own sub-site. This sub-site holds all the communication regarding the changes the European Parliament wants to make in the banking sector.. The EACB tests these new rules in the 'real' world and suggest changes to the parliament before it is will become a law..

Fun, tricky but solvable issues where brought into the project.. By taking a very generic approach I could pull it off quite easily but still maintain all kinds of flexibility.

But a school class example how the mindset changes in time as it gets out how flexible the system will be and how it was.. New requirements popped up every now and then .. But I cleared it all and didn't had to much trouble to service the client in a timely manner..

And yes.. it is all tailor made software in CMS and Document management..

Good choise or wrong choise

As I am delving in the CMS system by SmartSite I find myself setting back the clock by at least 4 years..

The system is build in VB6 runs in traditional ASP and I cannot get the components imported in C#.. Help..,
You can extend the system with self written VB components that needs to inherit an interface and reference some components But no C# is possible 'yet'. When referencing from C# it tells you it cannot build a satellite object for it.. So I cannot get a reference from It and I need to implement an interface from it to get the component started from SmartSite...

I managed to get an IDL file extracted from the various components. I guess I need to write a new satellite component tat I need to reference from my C# Com objects.. Anyone having experience in doing this or knows some problems I can get into??

But still we are at the breach or having VS 2005 releasing and stilll on of the biggesst CMS systems is running on ASP and VB... Guess it is quite late to transform to .net and I know the need to be backword compatible but this is way over the limit...

And guess what .. after nearly 3 years of C# .. VB 6 is really a dumb language but I have a hard time picking it all up  :-)

How hard is Woman Shelter