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About free cocktails, dolphins and lots of fun
We are already back for three weeks, but until now, I have not found the time yet to report on our great holiday. Including traveling time, the holiday lasted only ten days, which is way too short for fully enjoying the awesome Sandos Caracol Beach Resort. Since taking the ca...
What’s new in .NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008
Update July 25th: Huge signs that beta 2 will arrive THIS week. Update July 16th: There are some 'signs' that beta 2 will arrive really soon. Most of the community information on Visual Studio 2008 has been focussing on the Language INtegrated Query (LINQ) features of C# 3.0, but ...
Guidance Automation Extensions 1.3 is coming…
A very short blog entry that triggered me. Hopefully, it will arrive soon, since that makes it potentially possible to use the Web Client Software Factory on a Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas) environment. For those guys that also use the V3 alpha drops of the Service Software Factory, be pat...
Mexico, here we come…
In just two days of working, our holiday starts. Me and my girlfriend Barbara have been considering taking our new Volvo and driving off to the south of France again. We enjoyed that holiday a lot last year, but we thought that we'll have plenty of opportunities for such a holiday as so...
Having fun while doing my job
Recently, I've been giving presentations on topics such as C# 2.0 and ASP.NET 2.0 to some of the coworkers of Aviva .NET Professionals (a partner of Aviva Solutions). Usually that is not something worth blogging about. But yesterday evening's group was so full of enthousiasme, I couldn't resist s...
Great fun ‘im Schweizerhaus’
Although I lived most of my life in Nijmegen (in the east of the Netherlands), I also lived for about four years in a little village near the German border which is called Millingen aan de Rijn. Although this village is quite busy on itself (it is a very popular place for both Germ...