Coming april 24th Jimmy Nilsson will be speaking for Dutch user group dotNed . Jimmy is well known for his book Applying Domain-Driven Design and Patterns . A very good aspect of this book is it's style: very easy going and a pleasure to read; but in the meantime you're learning a lot. My first...

Friday 14th Dutch user Group SDN had a full day meeting. The SDN has a very long history, it started in the DOS days as a Clipper Developer group. Over the years a couple of refactorings and renames later it's now mainly a .NET user group with a big Delphi stream and a smaal Visual Objects (the product...

Tidying up the office I found this goodie. For those who started with Windows and pen-drives: it is a 5.25" single sided floppy disk (with a capacity of 160 or 180 K b) by the Massachusetts Mineral and Mining Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing company pimped as an analog clock. At the time floppies...

Presenting in public, be it on paper, blog or speak is fun. It forces you to formulate your ideas. If you can't explain something you don't really understand it. And it provides valuable feedback. Not everything said or written comes across, it might take a show element. And not everything has...

In the Dutch city of Groningen is the Mediacentrale : It's a former power plant which has been transformed into a centre for multimedia and other IT business. March 16th, it was stage for Amigro , a 1 day conference on ambient intelligence .(Google for variations ). Organized by the department of AI...

Last week, March 7th and 8th, we had the annual Dutch Microsoft Developer days. A very impressive start was the beamer used for the keynote. An immersing stage wide display containing windowed input of several PC's and/or video camera's. Must have been either an expensive rent or it broke down as the...

Hey Dutchies: coming Thursday, February 23, the user group DotNed will meet. Hosted by Macaw with a presentation on Enterprise Library for .NET 2.0. Last time I went it was great, I'm hoping for something likewise. It's free. Signup here . See you there.

Last Friday, December 9th, the Dutch user group SDN had a meeting. A lot of people turned up, demonstrating that blogs and other internet stuff are still not (and never will be) all there is. There is no substitute for meeting and talking with real live people. My favorite presentation was on Contract...

1350 people attended the Dutch launch party. One of the best things was the location The old Van Nelle factory was designed in 1923 but still looks quite modern these days. The most remarkable thing are its glass walls. This idea of transparency was a recurring theme in the keynote. Microsoft exposing...

Yesterday Dutch user group DotNed held a meeting to celebrate it's 3d year. The main presentation was by Dennis Vroegop . <Update Dennis is not Dennis . Sorry, sorry, sorry> He had visited the PDC, blogged about it and gave a presentation on the most impressive stuff he had seen. Also Dennis has...