ASP.NET

Simple little things. Placing dynamic images in databound controls

By shoogend at 31 August, 2010, 3:38 pm

Sometimes there’s these really little things that hardly seem worth the effect blogging about. But when you start googling for the apparent solution, there’s a million-and-one blogs, forum questions that at the least are contradicting. In this particular case I wanted to set different images in different rows in a Repeater or GridView depending on [...]

Sander’s talk at TechEd US 2010. How frameworks can kill your projects and patterns to prevent getting killed

By shoogend at 20 June, 2010, 12:48 pm

Last week, the Microsoft TechEd North America 2010 took place in the great city of New Orleans. I was lucky to be invited to do a talk on how frameworks can kill your projects. When it comes to Microsoft .NET-connected development, more and more frameworks enter the market. Both from Microsoft and from open source. [...]

October 5, 2009. Talk. “Pragmatic model driven development”

By shoogend at 5 October, 2009, 11:05 pm

Capgemini BAS, Faustlaan, Apeldoorn. With Capgemini BAS joining Capgemini in 2009, some new initiatiaves in model driven development opened up, more particularly, hoping I’ve interpreted it correctly, based on naterual language. I discussed this initiative in June with Freek Bosch, manager of the unit where this natueral langauge based approach originated. During the same inspriing [...]

Writing better software faster

By shoogend at 5 October, 2009, 10:53 pm

Published in my Interesting Things column in SDN Magazine, November 2009. Looking back on twenty years of software development, I must have spent most of that time trying to improve the quality and productivity of software development. Ever since I started to write small applications in Turbo Pascal in 1988 I got infected with the [...]

Highway to hell? DevTweet: @mariannerd and @aahoogendoorn review code

By shoogend at 6 July, 2009, 9:26 am

The following conversation between Marianne and me will be published as our DevTweet column of SDN Magazine, issue 102. Listening to Black Sabbath’s Master of Reality. @aahoogendoorn Look at you… new avatar! Is that an AC/DC shirt? @mariannerd Howdy partner! It is AC/DC all right. Your avatar new too? Something wrong with the old one? [...]

Implementing smart use cases. Guest lecture at Hogeschool Arnhem Nijmegen

By shoogend at 20 April, 2009, 1:14 am

In the second half of last year, I did a guest lecture at the Hogeschool Arnhem Nijmegen (HAN) in Arnhem on an invitation by lecturer Rody Middelkoop. I’m sorry but I can’t remember the exact date – only that I had an upcoming flue. Although if was a Friday afternoon, the audience was good, about [...]