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Passionate about .net

Update your feeds

Just a small reminder to update your feed subscription to this blog if you have any. I changed hosting for the blog so the feed url is different as well.

greetings

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The Evolution of a Programmer

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Finally: an update

 After a rather long beta 1 period there is now a new beta version available of the Windows Live Writer. I already gave up on this nifty piece of software because it seemed to have died silently. But then out of the blue I saw a posting that said a new version was released. I’ve downloaded it, installed it and now am posting this post with it. It looks “nicer” and it seems to be more intuitive now.

Want it? Download it here

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BlogEngine.Net Released

Today I saw the notice of the first official release of the freely available blogengine.net. I already installed it once when it was in the alpha/bèta phase. Back then I saw the potentials and definitly the ease of customizing and integrating it. Nowadays when I look at the features list as well as the roadmap for the next versions to come it already looks a lot more advanced. I still have to download the release version to see if they’ve managed to keep the simplicity the project had when I tested it a while ago. I hope they really do, because that will be their stronghold in compairison with other engines. Anyways enough said –>

CHECK IT OUT: http://www.dotnetblogengine.net/

Filed under: .net 2.0, Asp.net 2.0, Blog, blogengine.net

Old posts imported

I’ve been able to import my posts from the old blog. However I’ve lost all the comments and tags on them. I also have to edit those that are layed out incorrect and assign the proper categories to them.

Anyways they are here :-)

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New blog and yes I am a traitor to my religion

Altough I’m a strong believer of the .Net evangely I have switched blogging engines from community server (100% .net) to WordPress (PHP & MySql). It’s because I feel limited by the community server features and it still does not achieve the same level usability as WordPress does. So here we are. I’m going to look for a way to import my posts from CS to WP, but that might take a while because I’m still investigating this.

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Disclaimer

Due to recent postings I would like to take your attention to this blog’s disclaimer.

You can find it by clicking on the about link on top of the page. Anyways here it is once more:

Disclaimer Suddenelfilio ’s Blog

The information in this weblog is provided “AS IS” with no warranties, and confers no rights.

This weblog does not represent the thoughts, intentions, plans or strategies of my employer. It is solely my opinion.

Feel free to challenge me, disagree
with me, or tell me I’m completely nuts in the comments section of each
blog entry, but I reserve the right to delete any comment for any
reason whatsoever (abusive, profane, rude, or annonymous comments) – so
keep it polite, please.

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Anything new?

Well yes actualy a lot is new. I’m currently working at BICS (Belgacom International Carrier Services) where I’m helping them with one of their projects and in the same time I’m replacing one of my co-workers who is going to leave us.

BICS has got an impressive infrastructure. I’ve even a nice display about the size of entire wall (really big !!!) I wonder if they show a nice movie in the evenings… probably not because it is being used for network monitoring.

Another thing is that last week(end) I started working on a .net wrapper around the currently very unfriendly to use ISBNDB Api. It’s an URL-based API that returns XML so there will be a lot of parsing involved, but this is actually a step I’m not doing I’m just writing a small framework to use certain classes to retrieve the XML. Maybe later on I’ll add parsing… anyways it will come available on http://www.codeplex.com/isbndbnet which is currently very low on content Big Smile

Besides all of this I’m currently planning a home multimedia network. It consists of 1 media center pc with a linksys media center extender device and on top of that each room has been fitted to play music which is available over the network. For this I’m using 3 Terratec Noxon’s and 3 times a basic 2.1 speaker system from logitech. Hopefully everything will play nice together

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On hold ?!?

Currently I’m not posting as much as I used to do but that’s because I’m preparing for my certification exam. I’m studying most of the little free time I have.

Next week I’ll update the post about the TFS Proxy Switcher. I still have to setup the codeplex project again.

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