Opera Widget tip: zooming in
I just discovered something cool: you can make your Opera Widgets larger by zooming in. I just opened my favorite widget (touchTheSky: a weather forecast widget), and the text was a bit small. Usually,...
View ArticleSilverlight Rehab
I previously linked to a video made by some Microsoft employees. Now they created another funny one, this time about Silverlight addicts.Technorati Tags: Microsoft, Channel 10, comedy, Silverlight.
View ArticleMaking your password TextBox more secure
If you use a Windows Forms TextBox to let your users enter a password, you should know it's not very secure: external applications can get the password from the TextBox by sending it the WM_GETTEXT...
View ArticleFree Dutch e-book about Life hacking
Yesterday there was a thread on Channel 9 that pointed to a free eBook about Life hacking. It's in Dutch and the paper version costs €19.90. Go download it and start life hacking (if you understand...
View ArticleMicrosoft releases Photosynth
Yesterday, Microsoft released the highly anticipated Photosynth to the public. Now everyone can start synthing (ooh, new verb). Well, everyone running Windows XP or Windows Vista.Awesome...
View ArticleGoogle Chrome
This week the tech news was primarily dominated by the launch of Google Chrome. I was going to write about it earlier, but because EVERYBODY was blogging about it, I didn't think I could add anything...
View ArticleWindows 7 calculator looks awesome
The title pretty much says it. I've been following the progress of Windows 7 and nothing has made me say wow yet (yeah, Paint and Wordpad get a ribbon, but that doesn't really make sense to me), until...
View ArticleOslo in the open
This morning I started a thread on Channel 9 about Microsoft's new initiative called DevLabs. One of the projects is Small Basic, a simple BASIC-like programming language that is used to teach kids...
View Article.NET BCL proposition: read-only collection interfaces
As a result of this thread on Channel 9, here's a proposition for a simple enhancement of the .NET BCL, related to collections.If a class wants to expose a collection of items, the best thing to do is...
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Visual Dooby 0.1
I just uploaded an initial version of Visual Dooby, a portable lightweight database client. This initial release is quite limited. You can currently only connect to a SQL Server database, the database...
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for-i-repeat
Update 2009-05-31: New version 1.1.I just finished developing a small tool called for-i-repeat that can duplicate a text-fragment a number of times using a counter. The reason I needed this is for the...
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Launch of new Transceiver website
I haven't had time to write about this yet, but last week our company launched the new website of our flagship technology: Transceiver. We rewrote the website from scratch, making sure it's fast,...
View ArticleI’ve been trying out Twitter for about a week now. I’m still a bit skeptical about it, but I can see at least 1 advantage: there’s a very close contact between followers and followees. It’s a lot...
View ArticleOnebit: cool free icons
I just found this little gem in my newsfeeds: Onebit, a free set of 50 icons (48 by 48 pixels) from Icojoy. The reason I’m blogging about this is because I think it’s a great example of a modern icon...
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for-i-repeat 1.1
I just uploaded a new version of for-i-repeat. The only major changes are:The location and size of the window are now remembered (stored in a settings-file) The visual style has been improved (uses...
View ArticleCalctor 2.1.2
This is a small update to Calctor. I added the option to use comma as a decimal separator.You can download it here.
View ArticleAwesome videos on Channel 9 this week
Channel 9 has always produced nice videos with interviews, or weekly shows (This Week on Channel 9, Ping), but this week they have exceeded themselves in quality and awesomeness. I especially liked the...
View ArticleNDepend
A while ago, I received an e-mail from Patrick Smacchia, offering me a license for NDepend and asking me whether I could try it out, give some feedback and if I liked it, maybe I could blog about my...
View Articleif-read-do-while-read
Here’s a construction I occasionally need when reading items from a IDataReader: to execute some code before and after reading through the IDataReader, but only if there are rows in the IDataReader.One...
View Articleif-read-do-while-read part 2
I just received a comment on my previous post about the if-read-do-while-read construction. Tanton suggests that I could create a method that encapsulates this construction, using delegates for the...
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