David Cumps

Today I got a letter from Microsoft UK personally confirming my registration for the WebDD event for next weekend.

It's been silent for a while again, mostly due to a lot of time going to my new job.

One of the things I've come up with lately is a new personal blog to share some of my consultant experiences. It's written in Dutch however, since it's less technical and more personal :)

Technical posts will still come up here, and here is a small one:

Becoming a consultant, I had the idea to set up a dedicated server to manage everything abroad.

Stuff like subversion, blog, wiki, imap, smtp, pop3, ...

But due to a cost issue, I stepped away from that idea, although it remains quite nice ;)

However, most of the above ideas can be solved on only shared webhosting space!

• Nucleus CMS as a personal blogging engine.
• DokuWiki as a personal wiki.
• And I'll code something in PHP to check my pop3 boxes and make them available through a centralised site, since apparently most solutions are either IMAP-only, or looking ugly.
  

• Blog: consultants-life.be
• Wiki: consultants-life.be/wiki

Lately I hear about a lot of people using VPC that their keyboard suddenly stops working inside VPC.

A long time ago, I talked about Differencing Disks in Virtual PC.

Internet Explorer 6 was officially released.

Some nifty SQL statements I made last week:

Firstly, listing all databases on a server.

-- Get Databases
SELECT name FROM master.dbo.sysdatabases ORDER BY name

This week I started playing around with Managed DirectX (MDX) and it's a really fun thing. I attempted it a couple of times a long time ago, but never quite understood it, but now I have a good feeling about it, a sense of order and structure has shown itself in DirectX code.

Well, what have I done during the last year? First of all, I graduated from school with highest distinction and got a job as a webdeveloper, creating ASP.NET sites. Actually, I helped to come up with and create a rather generic cms-like framework that is being used for all future sites, cutting back on development time when administration sections have to be made, and when a lot of re-occurring things have to be implemented in a site. That's about the only vague description I can give, since it's "top secret" ;)