I had the opportunity to get a new development machine and it had to be a laptop. I’ve used solely Windows machines in the past and was always annoyed to see my peers, using a Mac, have awesome battery life and could have their laptop on their lap or table without melting the surface and never have fans turning on when doing simple stuff.
That’s a couple of reasons I chose to get a Macbook Pro myself this time.
Read more →Normally when you are creating new appointments via Outlook in your organization you are inviting everyone who should join the meeting. This works quite alright, but not something I wanted to do for a couple of meetings I am planning. The meetings I’m organizing are optional to everyone inside the company, therefore I don’t want to spam the inbox of everyone with a meeting most of them (probably around 95%) aren’t interested in.
Read more →A couple of days ago I read a very cool blog post by Scott Hanselman about Monospaced Programming Fonts with Ligatures.
I had never heard about the word ligatures, but he explains it quite well. They are ‘characters’ which are made up by combining multiple individual characters as one. Apparently this is quite common in the Arabic languages. Well, no matter, the thing that does matter is the fact you can use this inside your development environment also!
Read more →The past couple of days I’ve had the pleasure to start using a Git server as the new version control system at my customer. I’ve already had the pleasure to use GitHub and BitBucket in the past, which works like a charm with tools like GitHub for Windows and SourceTree. Because I’m used to using these tools, I really wanted to use them on my day job also.
Because we chose to use SSH keys as a validation mechanism I had to create one.
Read more →There are some cool features available in Linux. In an earlier post I already mentioned the apt-get functionality which is now also offered in Windows via Chocolatey. One of the other cool features is being able to execute something in the terminal as an Administrator by specifying sudo in the command.
Lucky for us Windows people, someone has created a tool which is able to do something similar as the Linux sudo-command.
Read more →Even though the Windows operating system is one of the best in my opinion, there are always something which is only available in a different OS. For example the apt-get functionality in Linux. I don’t know how this works exactly, but from my basic understanding it’s some kind of repository with a lot of software and libraries which you can download to your device by typing something like the following in a terminal window:
Read more →On some installations of Visual Studio 2010, 2012 or 2013 I’m confronted with strange behavior. One of these strange things are the black lines in the Watch Window of Visual Studio. Just like the screenshot below (this isn’t my screenshot, I’ve ‘borrowed’ it from someone else)
Normally this has something to do with the graphics driver, but updating these drivers doesn’t work all the times. There’s also a work around for this problem, described on the MSDN forum.
Read more →The solutions in the project I’m working on are quite big and can easily take up 30 to 90 seconds to build, even though we have rather fast laptops. This is probably because of some build-plugins we are forced to use and the tight SharePoint integration of those plugins. Nevertheless, it’s quite annoying to see Visual Studio ‘hang’ every time you build your solution.
Last week I had some time on my hands to do some research on how we could improve these long builds.
Read more →Onlangs ben ik weer begonnen met het studeren voor de nieuwe certificaten voor ASP.NET 4.0 en Sharepoint 2010. Hier zijn momenteel al enkele goede boeken die kunnen helpen met het leren van de materie, zoals:
Pro ASP.NET 4 in C# 2010, Fourth Edition - https://apress.com/book/view/1430225297
Microsoft SharePoint 2010: Building Solutions for SharePoint 2010 - https://apress.com/book/view/1430228652
SharePoint 2010 as a Development Platform - https://apress.com/book/view/1430227060
Pro SharePoint 2010 Solution Development: Combining .NET, SharePoint, and Office - https://apress.
Read more →Met de invoering van Excel 2007 is er ook een ‘leuke’ feature ingeslopen, namelijk dat je meerdere bestanden in 1 workbook open hebt. Dit betekend dat alle bestanden in 1 scherm van Excel staan. Wel is er nog de optie om ze in de Taskbar als afzonderlijke sessie te laten zien, maar ze blijven in 1 venster zitten.
Persoonlijk vind ik dit behoorlijk vervelen, vooral wanneer je met 2 schermen werkt.
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