Tired of processes ? Let's give a chance to practices. Ivar Jacobson gave a presentation at the Regional Architect Forum in Zurich about the methodology he proposes for software development.

About the difference on being at the mixing console and being in front of the microphone

If you are interested in function generators and oscilloscope, I am selling some pieces of my electronic lab I had since lot of years

I found two interesting Visio 2007 stencils for BPMN and UML2. If you are interested, check out where I found them

Resizing a VHD file is not easy at all. Not only you have to resize the file itself, but then you have to tell the guest operating system that the disk size has changed. Fortunately, Partition Manager 9.0 Server does it well.

Monday, I passed the 70-631 exam to get a MCTS certification.

What I find really nice is to have some files everywhere. Especially when you use multiple machines at different places, you can be sure that you forget a file on one of these. And having all the files on a USB key is quite unefficient...

I really love working with my tabletPC. In combination with an external monitor it is simply superb

Where I spent my last holidays and a good address for your next holidays.

The final word of my problem with the Qtek 9100 internet configuration : Do not use useless 0 in IP address....

Thanks to the DasBlog developpers community, the last version of the blog engine went live few days ago, allowing this site to migrate to the version 2 of asp.net.

Thepmpodcast ceased providing the download for the mp3 files since the show number 60. Why ?

My next challenge for the next couple of weeks : testing the new Beta of VS 2008 TFS...

How to install a Report Server Farm....Configuration, Activation, etc

Microsoft unveiled their Surface project. A great product, directly taken from sci-fi movies...

A problem prevented me to cross-post to blogspot, but this seems to be fixed

Preparing a presentation about AJAX and a comparison between the Microsoft world and the other (basically the rest of the world...), I went to an issue I did not expect, because I thought it would be more automatic.

When you add a ScriptManager and an UpdatePanel to a web page, the first times you will run the application, there are chances that the "'Sys' is undefined" Javascript error occurs. Not only the Javascript error is shown, but when you click on, let say a button in your UpdatePanel, this will post the page back to the server, updating the whole page.

This is because in the HTML code, the Sys.Application.Initialze function is called close to the end of the code. The problem is that the resource files containing the Javascript code are coming and downloaded from the server using a .axd file (ScriptResource.axd, more precisely).

To fix this issue, the line below has to be added in the web.config file under the <httpHandlers> section :

<add verb="GET,HEAD" path="ScriptResource.axd" type="System.Web.Handlers.ScriptResourceHandler, System.Web.Extensions, Version=1.0.61025, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" validate="false" />

I was a bit busy during the last few weeks, that is why I did not post as much as I would.

Busy, because my assignments were changed, from a customized human workflow application to a MS CRM 3.0 application and doing some mobile development. Other technologies, other challenges, in other words, fun !

 

But I'm back, and I hope to post more frequently on this blog.

Après 3 jours d'attente, la coupe Louis Vuitton démarre enfin.

Suivre en direct les courses est absolument génial, grâce à LiveSaling.....

Bon départ de BMW Oracle face à United Internet qui prends d'emblée 40m d'avance...

The link provided in this post may provide good starting points on how to build a development environment for SharePoint

TechDays 2007 in Geneva are sold-out. But I'll be there....

If you want to display a .NET web form in a modal dialog, this post may be useful for you....

After long years of services, GotDotNet is going to be unplugged

From 4000 USD to 57000 USD for SharePoint Server 2007. More in this post

Posts were delayed because there was no wifi network at the conference place

Usually, when you attend to a techical or at least a Microsoft conference, you can expect there will be a possibility to have a wifi spot. But it was not the case !

I can not imagine that Microsoft did not put any wifi hub at the conference place....Oh yes, the Estrel Hotel provides a wifi connection but the price was incredibly expensive. Imagine that for 1 hour of connection, you would pay about 9 Euros. And for 24 hours, 24 Euros. It is almost the price I pay for my ADSL connection at home for a month !

I discussed with an attendees who said to me that it was simply not possible to connect because everyone at the conference tried to have the network at the same time. So, at the end, you pay for......nothing.

Please Microsoft, next time, for such a big events, could you provide a usable wifi network ?

The Geneva-Zurich flight to go to the MS European Conference was so shaky......

La nouvelle version de VaudTax est sortie et disponible en téléchargement. Je me réjouirai presque de remplir ma déclaration d'impôts.....

Today is my birthday

How to refresh automatically all the PivotTables contained in an Excel Workbook...

Or, when it is time to change the profile to use...

It is just a test of posting from Word 2007.

The information to set up your dasblog account in Word can be found here

The Microsoft European SharePoint 2007 will be held in Berlin from the 12th of February to the 14th. It is going to be a really huge event dedicated to only one product : SharePoint 2007

Exit Maximedia/Nexlink/Green.ch. Passer d'un hébergeur amateur plus que lamentable au niveau technique et gestion clientèle à Brinkster, là où il y a des professionnels de l'hébergement, ça change ! En tout cas, aucun regret !

Zattoo offers the TV over the net...

How could I imagine that del.icio.us had no import feature ? I don't know. Obviously they have and the solution is pretty simple.

How to install a HP C5180 AiO printer/scanner and how to love it. Hum, for those of you who want to buy this product, plan for a night or two to install the bunch of software that are shipped with the printer. It is so slow to install and it is so big that it will take you the first night. And then, plan another one to fix the install and to tweak the operating system…… A pure happiness

Sometimes, tuning cache expiration timing and attachment format is not enough to avoid this error message. Maybe it is _your_ code that cause this error to happen...

A start of building a list of question to help to decide what is really needed when the application needs a workflow engine...

The countdown has been started !

In the near future, a little revolution is going to happen.

Stay tuned on this web site......

Last week, I attended a 3-days training at ESI International in London named "Project Leadership, Management and Communications".

This course was amazingly great. Very interesting either by its format or by its teacher. 3 days, it is long enough to present the material and the different topics of the course, mainly focuses on how to communicate with people, colleagues and the clients. A large part of the training is about the relationships between people and how to influence it in order to improve the quality of the exchange inside a team or even outside.

This course uses a lot the team working and the environment makes it more easier by putting all the attendees around round-tables, making group of about 6 people. A bit of role-playing games is also used during this training.

Finally, the teacher (name will follow...) was a great one.

On the other hand, it was 4 years since my last visit in London and I did not remember it was sooooo expensive. But I really like this city.....

My latest participation to the AAEIT newsletter about the CTP's Open Source Survey

Now thit blog is running the version 1.9.6264.0 of DasBlog

2.2% of rates increasing in average, the lowest raise ever since the introduction of the LaMAL

I found a new toy helping me to debug Javascript code. It was existing since long time since it is shipped with Windows 2000. But, to use it, you need to know it exists.....

DasBlog migrated to 1.8.5223.2.

ZapThink organizes the 5th SOA practitioner's conference in Geneva. A good occasion to learn what is SOA and when it might apply in software developments.

Warning ! A lot of phishing attempts are arriving in our inbox. All of them have only one goal : to steal your use ids, credit card numbers, password and other personnal data. Do not answer to them, banking institutions communicate only by letters when asking for personnal information confirmation.

I am not sure, but I maybe found a bug in the System.IO.Ports.SerialPort class implementation. Indeed, setting the StopBits property of that class to StopBits.None is causing an ArgumentOutOfRange exception.

How to fix the "Unrecognized attribute 'xmlns'" error when running the Atlas documentation website on a machine running the .Net Framework 1.1

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