When I first heard about LiveWriter I did not really see myself using it but now that a lot of bloggers on my blogroll are raving about it I thought I would give the thing a spin. It does offer a better writing experience than working in a web page but I keep feeling so …
Author Archives: basp
Binsor
Holy cow, it seems my configuration woes are over! Ever since I have stumbled upon the Castle project, the Castle.Windsor (I love that name) container has made regular appearances in a lot of my programming projects. Heck, I even built a component based data transportation library to learn how to use it. Unfortunately though, the more …
The
The notorious and famous ToolStripMenuItem class. Although it looks great in a strip it does not always behave like you think it should. It has somewhat a mind of it’s own. The annoying thing with this class is that even when the ToolStripMenuItem is disabled, it still light’s up when you hover your mouse over …
Later
Because I do not feel like posting anything else, here is some wisdom: Later has already started and today will never return Later is al lang begonnen en vandaag komt nooit meer terug Thanks to Harrie Jekkers and the Klein Orkest. There is a lot of other wisdom hidden in most of the other lyrics …
Random
Vacation is really over now. Got my Visa Gold Card today. I’m currently waiting for Corona running on my laptop and trying to import 114448 rows of classification data… With every hundred rows or so it takes longer and longer… An almost complete joint is lying here next to me; patiently waiting for me to …
Complexity
Enterprise software tends to suck. Bigtime. It even has it’s own word: enterprisey. And believe me: it’s not a good thing. Enterprise software tends to become complicated. Fast. Why? I’m a developer myself and at this level the most common reasons why things go wrong (in no particular ordre) are below: Poor developers Good but …
Mag-Lite
My old 6D Mag-Lite shines like never before. With some great help of Sven who not only got me a bitching krypton bulb but also took some time to print me a Mag-Lite design schema. Without it, it would’ve taken me considerably longer to realize I wasn’t missing the lamp retainer at all… I immediately …
Squeak,
It took a little bit of fiddling but Seaside2.6b1 and the latest Magma now seem to be running in harmony on my local Squeak image. Mainly for my personal reference but maybe it’s useful to someone else too, here are the steps I took to get there: Install the latest bleeding edge snapshot of Seaside, …
2006:
Here at the geek house, 2006 has been officially declared as the “coaster season” so me and my brother bought season passes for three parks (so far) which together enable us to visit and park for free an unlimited times in about a dozen parks in Europe including: De Efteling Walibi World Walibi Belgium Walibi …
PowerShell
Msh, Mush and Microsoft Command Shell are no more. Monad has a new “Marquee” name and we all have the Microsoft marketing department to thank for it. Please say hello to the awfully named PowerShell and please try not to mess-up the carpet while you get sick looking at the changes. Bah. “Msh” or “Microsoft …