Ok, it's finished! :) Yesterday I blogged about my Christmas coding session resulting in an OpenGL 3D effect I named 'Bands' and today I've transfered into a screensaver, complete with .Text / Weblogs.asp.net textures, to say 'Thank you' to Scott and the other people who keep this blogging site running, in a more 'geeky' fashion. Sourcecode (C++)...

Follow these easy steps. The first 4 steps you only have to do ONCE in your life. Step 5-7 you only have to do ONCE per project. Open a command prompt Type vsvars32.bat (enter) or navigate to the .NET bin dir Type: sn -k mykey.key (enter) Move mykey.key to a folder where it gets backupped daily, for example: c:\myfiles\keys\ Open your code's...

Let me start with a blunt statement: stored procedures are bad, they are a bad way to formulate data-access logic. I can't state that enough. Today I stumbled into a blog by Rob Howard, which tries to convince the reader that whatever you do, use stored procedures! With tears in my eyes I've read the arguments he brings to the table. Some are...

The article I posted yesterday received the expected replies and I hope in the future it will show people how to look at software, the users of that software and on the various 'holy wars' that are still going on (and probably will be). Today Paul Vick posted today an explanation why VB.NET will not have a Refactoring / Refactor menu, however it...

A short list of things I could determine from the C# 2.0 draft which was released yesterday which are not a topic of much discussions but are good to know. I've added page numbers to the items, so you can go back to the C# 2.0 draft yourself and look them up (page numbers are the actual page numbers on the page). I've skipped the features:...

I'm a database purist. This means that I like, no, adore database theory and the technology behind databases. Databases are one of the most high-tech software systems we all work with today, although not a lot of people will recognize them as such. As a developer using Microsoft software for years, I used SqlServer, starting with v6.5 till today...

There will be a new operating system among us in a couple of years: the OS currently code-named 'Longhorn'. The date today is September 29th, 2003. Longhorn is expected in late 2005. That's almost 2 years from now. In these two years, we have to live with Windows XP, that's the current top desktop OS Microsoft has to offer. Don't get me wrong, I...

Ok, I'm back! :) After a long period of extensive programming (AKA 'Crunch mode'), the pressure is finally gone. Everybody who has released a big software product knows that releasing it is one, but the period after the initial release is as important as the release itself: early adopters who find odd bugs in weird circumstances no beta-tester has...

I'm not going to write a very long story about the DotNED meeting last Thursday, other than that it was great!. . Due to time restrictions I only had half an hour for the presentation and the demonstration of LLBLGen Pro, which was too short for me to explain a lot about O/R mapping, its details and how it works in practise, though I hope...

It's 31 degrees celcius here now, so too hot to be at a keyboard (even for a True Nerdtm like me) so I'll write a more thourough posting tomorrow. Though I'd like to say that I very enjoyed giving the presentation about Data-acces and O/R mapping yesterday at the DotNED meeting . Sander Gerz has a review some photo's online, I'm the tall guy in...

It's 31 degrees celcius here now, so too hot to be at a keyboard (even for a True Nerdtm like me) so I'll write a more thourough posting tomorrow. Though I'd like to say that I very enjoyed giving the presentation about Data-acces and O/R mapping yesterday at the DotNED meeting . Sander Gerz has a review some photo's online, I'm the tall guy in...

http://www.freshpatents.com/Mapping-architecture-for-arbitrary-data-models-d t20050303ptan20050050068.php (via Yves Reynhout) Too silly for words, if I might add. The patent description is so incredibly vague, almost every piece of software which even smells it would map something seems to fall under this 'invention'. One good example why...

http://www.freshpatents.com/Mapping-architecture-for-arbitrary-data-models-d t20050303ptan20050050068.php (via Yves Reynhout) Too silly for words, if I might add. The patent description is so incredibly vague, almost every piece of software which even smells it would map something seems to fall under this 'invention'. One good example why...

After 4 months of development and 2 months of beta-testing, it's finally done: LLBLGen Pro v1.0.2004.2 has been released! Below is the full list of changes and new features. Of course, this upgrade is free for customers. Drivers Changed SqlServer / Oracle drivers now shows a stored procedure selector form if the preference...

At E3, Sony reveiled the specs and photo's of their upcoming console yesterday. I can only say: whoa. I've the feeling it will be tough for the XBox 360, although that's a great machine as well. One major feature of the PS3 is that it can play any game from the past, the XBox 360 only a subset. But let's not talk about the past, on a new...