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  • Comment spam, Outlook 2003 and .text

    When your blog gets spammed you receive an email notification. And can take action. Outlook has a spam filter; it will dump (some of) these spam comments in the Junk mail folder. And you'll miss it. There is only one solution: again and again I'm begging for an update of the .text engine. Not to mention...

  • Dotned went North

    Yesterday, november 25th, Dutch user group dotned had a meeting hosted by DTS in Meppel. Which is in the Northern part of the country. Nice for me but for the most of my fellow Dutch .net-ers it was an occasion for a favorite hobby over here : complaining about the traffic. In the Netherlands travelling...

  • (Changing) the length of a database text field and asp.net apps

    The title suggest this should be a trivial matter. To get my user's satisfied I found some points to watch: The amount of text the user can enter in a textbox on a webform is unlimited. The amount of space to store the text in the database is. To prevent the user typing in to much you set the MaxLength...
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  • Article on tablet PC development

    The site of the SDN , the Dutch user group for .NET, Delphi, Fox and VO and Clipper developers with a very rich history, has put my tablet PC article on line. The story is a fast rush though the tablet and the SDK. With many, many hooks for sequels. Who knows... Peter
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  • A tool to check IIS permissions

    This is a nice diagnostics tool to check (amongst others) permissions in IIS. As experienced by many others one of the major reasons for “ The Web server reported the following error when attempting to create or open the Web project located at the following“ is a lack of permissions for the...
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  • Debugging Tablet PC applications

    A tablet PC is fun, writing apps for a tablet is even more fun. But it took me some time to find out the easiest way to do that. You can write tablet apps on every PC which has the SDK installed but tablet specific features such as text recognition only work on a tablet. A tablet PC is powerfull enough...
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  • Working hours

    Game maker EA is getting quite a lot of attention these days. Their new Sims2 is received quite well by my social neighbourhood, finally we have a piece of software to talk about. The way EA operates its own sims is received with less enthousiams. In his blogpost Frans refers to the case as “White...

  • Is a Tablet PC cool (to program) ? Oh yes !

    In yesterday's post I listed some practical experiences, looking back on using a tablet PC. Today I want to spend some time looking ahead, there is more to be done. The tablet has really won my heart. The “experience” of using a tablet is addicting. You walk around freed from your desk with a fully functional...
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  • Using a tablet PC

    For a couple of months I've been using a tablet PC as a part of my everyday activities, time tor a little update. Some observations. The machine is quite powerful as a PC. It runs Outlook, Feeddemon and a Virtual. Small Business Server at the same time. The machine is really mobile and connective, it...

  • Apress teaches .NET

    Apress publishers are rolling out a good series of books on .NET development. These books build on each other to teach .net from the first steps to a variety of advanced topics. In his Apress blog Ewan Buckingham gives a very nice overview of the roadmap to the .NET . Peter

  • How to freeze a dynamic aspx page into a static html page (on the server).

    Take this scenario: On a website a visitor fills in a form after which the form is to be filed as a static html page. You might have several reasons for wanting to do that, one of them are search engines. Getting it done in asp.net took me more effort than I had originally expected. Let me share what...
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  • Christian Weyer on "Contract first" for dotned

    Thursday october 28th Christian Weyer did a very good presentation to celebrate the 2nd aniversary of the Dutch user group dotned . Christian is a team member of thinktecture , just like Ingo Rammer who did a dotned presentation last ju ly. Christain's subject was "Contract first". In the new hype of...
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