Microsoft Architect Council and OBA’s

I had the pleasure to be invited to the architects council yesterday,
which was presented by Philippe Destoop and had as primary subject OBA’s,
also known as Office Business Applications.
Microsoft recently set up a blog concerning the council at blogs.msdn.com/architectsrule and Philippe just updated the blog with the latest info on the new OBA reference application pack […]

Brackets on an Azerty mac keyboard

If you own an azerty mac keyboard you must have noticed the lack of the following keys:
\ { } [ ]
Quick tip:
\ = alt + shift + /
{ = alt + (
} = alt + )
[ = alt + shift + (
] = alt + shift + […]

How to generate a random string in c# 2.0

Although this is common knowledge to most dev’s,
I justed wanted to share some possible approaches for generating a random string in C#.
Approach 1: Create a static method in a utility class that will return a defined length of random characters.
One possible implementation could be:
static class Generator
{
private static Random _random = new Random();
public static string RandomString(int […]

YouTube movies

This is one break-your-bones youtube movie that caught my attention…

Make sure you see following sequences:
Mixed martial arts accident 3:16 min before end (breaks leg on low-kick),
Jackass alike accident by 2 kids 1:16 min before end (2 kids fall in shopping cart and 1 breaks wrist)
And another fine one (in dutch)

Chris&co’s impression on ‘Lekker Thuis’ a […]

Booting XP in safe mode through Parallels

Just a quick tip, which took me 15 minutes to find
When you need your windows xp to boot up in safe mode through Parallels you need to press fn-F8 (Apple key-F8) while starting up the virtual machine.