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Cees Alberts on July 26th, 2011

The ASP.NET development server is a very useful tool but now and then I find that I need to use a service or website that I’m developing in another solution than in the one I’m working in. I found that it is easiest just to add the instances of often used services and websites to […]

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Cees Alberts on July 24th, 2011

As a .NET developer I mostly fill my days making ASP.NET websites, and Windows forms application for my big clients. A few months ago I decided to take a look at making WordPress and Joomla websites. I wanted a tool that would help me make websites for small businesses quickly. Mostly I didn’t want them […]

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Cees Alberts on June 3rd, 2011

I watched the movie “The Net” a few days back again and I noticed that all computers that were used were Mac’s(!) Even the woman from the US consulate in Mexico printed the visa form with a Mac! I guess the makers of the movie made a nice deal with Apple to promote Mac’s! 😉 […]

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Cees Alberts on April 28th, 2011

One of the clients I worked for didn’t allow it’s developers to use embedded SQL in their sourcecode. Only the usage of stored procedures was allowed. Applications only got the database authorization to call stored procedures, nothing else. To me this is the most optimal use of database security! The DBA department made one stored […]

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Today I needed to find a workitem in TFS (Team Foundation Server) but didn’t know in which Team Project it was. I also didn’t know the workitem ID so I was getting ready for a big search through all the projects. Then I decided that there must be a better way to do this, and […]

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Cees Alberts on April 2nd, 2011

So after registering my URL developerblog.nl and installing wordpress I started thinking about what I would write about. I decided that I will write general ramblings about being a freelance .NET developer having a strange infatuation with the Macbook pro, the iPad and the iPhone. Next to that I also will write more technical blogs […]

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Cees Alberts on March 4th, 2011

Finally I started blogging! After wanting to do this for months, even registering my URL ( www.developerblog.nl ) I finally found the time to install WordPress. By the way, WordPress really rocks! It took my all of 5 minutes to install it. Ok, after that it took me 3 hours to configure it but truth […]

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