For a couple of months now, I am a very happy user of Google Apps premier. Although I am not very fond of Google Docs (I like MS Office too much I guess…), I love Google Mail. The near native support for MS Outlook, great support for mobile devices (especially if you’re on Android), combined with the large, 25 GB inbox, and a very friendly pricing of €40 per year, makes it a very hard to beat offer.

[Read the rest of this article...]

Right after I posted the blog about a tool I found to clear the Recent Projects list in Visual Studio, Maarten van Stam pointed me to a much better tool than that, MRU Cleaner from Bob DeRosa.

[Read the rest of this article...]

Always when doing visual studio demo’s, I am having issues with a long list of previously opened projects. Not that I mind anyone seeing what projects i am involved with, but the screen gets cluttered, and its a lot harder to pick the right project for your demo.

[Read the rest of this article...]

As many people that are using Twitter, I am using TweetDeck to manage the information overload. One of the many usefull features of TweetDeck is that you can add a search column to your view. Many DotNetNuke tweeps are using this feature to filter on everything that is tweeted about DotNetNuke.

[Read the rest of this article...]

Just another day in the live of a (ASP.NET) developer. If you are anything like me that you spend a considerable time of your day researching, and of course... Google is one of the tools of choice here.....Or is it?

[Read the rest of this article...]

Where it comes to using SQL Server features, I am a very late adopter. Not by choice, for all the DotNetNuke modules I create, I'd like to maintain backwards compatibility as much as possible, especially since DotNetNuke also fully supports MS SQL Server 2000.

[Read the rest of this article...]

 DotNetNuke and SQLServer don't always work together in the best of ways, especially if the system culture of the webserver is different from the language setting in sql server. If this is the case, then some modules will have problems saving datetime values to the database. For instance, if the database is expecting German type dates (dd.MM.yyyy), and DNN is sending US type dates (MM/dd/yyyy), in the best case dates will be saved with wrong information (reversed day and month), and in the worst case an error will occur.

[Read the rest of this article...]