Last Thursday I passed the 70-541 MCTS: Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: Application Development exam. So now I officially should know something about SharePoint development.

I have been advertising Ruby and IronRuby at my company for a while now — or trying too. We are a .NET solution provider and sofar they’re not convinced that Ruby will be worth the effort of learning. Oh well. One of these days I will come up with the decisive argument. Thinking of that, [...]

It took a while, but the DevDays 2008 presentations are finally online. You can find them here: DevDays 2008 Powerpoints

I ran into a situation a while ago that I needed to retrieve a serialized object from the database, copy its properties to another object and send that object over the wire. Why the copying? The object stored in the database were written in .NET 2.0, whereas the service I was sending the object to [...]

I discovered that there is an (in development) implementation of the Lisp/Scheme language for the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR). Pretty cool. I very much enjoyed the Lisp courses I followed at uni. The language looks worse than Perl but is actually quite simple once you get your head around it. As one of the primare [...]

Another day at DevDays 2008. Everyone could definately feel the previous day in our bones but we weren’t any less excited. I was forced to skip a session because I was about to fall down but hey, you win some, you lose some. ASP.NET MVC Framework by Alex Thissen The ASP.NET MVC Framework is Microsoft’s [...]

DevDays 2008 (held in the RAI convention centre in Amsterdam) is typically the most-looked-forward too events in the Dutch developer community. And yet this was my first DevDays to visit. Previous years I was too busy, or I realized it was “that time of the year” again too late (I have similar experiences with the [...]