Jan Tielens' Bloggings
Joy, frustration, excitement, madness, aha's, headaches, ... codito ergo sum!
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Another great idea (NOT!!) by SPA-Spirit (Belgian political party): Free Software
Normally I don't react if some political party evangilises a stupid idea, but this time they've made me angry. It started with the following article on ZDNet.be: Sp.a heeft kritiek op Microsoft-aankoop door dienst Financiën. It turns out the Belgian government will buy 8.000 pc's equipped with Microsoft software. No big deal, but there is a political party that doesn't like this. No problem, everybody has the right to have an opinion (even if I don't like it). But the SP-A (= the political party) uses some arguments in their statement that are completely wrong (I only mention two of them):
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Upgrading a Web Part Assembly & Great SharePoint Resources
It seems that I'm not the only one thinking about scenarios where you have to upgrade Web Parts that are in use. Ian Morrish points in Tariq's post to a MSDN article that covers this topic:
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Looking back at the Dev&IT-Pro Days: Day Two & Conclusion
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Looking back at the Dev&IT-Pro Days: Day One
I know it's a little bit late, it's already a week ago: Microsoft Developer & IT Pro Days 2004. It seems that everybody has already blogged the cool stuff (thanks Tom for the list), the Belgian .NET world is really starting to blog, I like that:
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Update for SharePoint.Essentials Webparts
Update: there's another update for these web parts: http://weblogs.asp.net/jan/archive/2004/03/04/84011.aspx
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Adding some essential functionality to SharePoint: Breadcrumbs, Navigation & MyAlerts
Update2: http://weblogs.asp.net/jan/archive/2004/03/11/88118.aspx
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Off we go... cu@devdays!
I'm leaving for the Belgian Dev&IT-Pro Days, so the comming two days I probably won't be able to read my email. Cu there!
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New "kids" on the block
I'd like to introduce to you two rather young people who started a .NET related blog lately. The first one is Tom van de Kerkhof, he's not only a new co-worker of me, but he's also my nephew (so if you're looking for a couple of compromising photos of him, just drop me a line). The last few months Tom's focus was Office integration, he gave a nice presentation about Visual Studio Tools for Office at our company headquarters. I think Tom is also starting his own Pizza restaurant: this afternoon I've seen the first demo of the website using the Speech Application SDK! I hope he's going to blog about his experiences with this stuff.
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Developer & IT Pro Days 2004 are comming!
If everything goes well (let's hope so), I'll be on the Microsoft Developer & IT Pro Days 2004 next week. This event not only has some very intresting sessions, but it's also great to get to talk with a lot of intresting people (including YOU! Drop me a line if you want to meet!). If you haven't subscribed yet: no problem. The online registration is closed but it is possible to register at the event itself. To register at the event, please come on Tuesday February 10 between 7.45am and 8.30am to the ICC and bring following information with you: Invoicing details (company name, address, VAT number, ...).
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Some SharePoint Requests ...
Don't get me wrong: I like SharePoint a lot, but there are some small details that could be improved (in my humble opinion).