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July 2005 - Posts

• Oh dear, Avalon and Indigo got there real names

  Indigo has been named: The Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Avalon is now: Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) I do hope that all the hits I get for Avalon will still end up right here…. PS: Don't you think that these name are waaaaay too Read More... Posted Thursday, July 28, 2005 9:57 PM by Erno de Weerd | 1 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding

• Turing and Lego

  I just love this Turing machine . If you are wondering who Turing was . BTW: doesn't it make you wonder that you need a PC to build a Turing machine.... :-) Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 27, 2005 7:16 PM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: Off topic, Coding

• Overview of the new collections in .NET 2.0

  A very nice overview of the new collection classes (generics) in .NET Generic Collections I and Generic Collections II Read More... Posted Friday, July 22, 2005 10:20 AM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding

• Back to basics (or rather: What they all will be laughing at in a century) Part II

  One thing that has amazed me since I learned Java and C# is the way history keeps interfering with 'modern' languages. The first thing you learn when picking up a new language is the famous Hello World . The 'Hello World' - code in Java and C# is very Read More... Posted Thursday, July 21, 2005 9:46 AM by Erno de Weerd | 2 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding

• Search me more

  After optimizing the seach code for this blog I read this on using Google logos so I had to change to an ordinary search button… Read More... Posted Thursday, July 21, 2005 8:41 AM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: Off topic

• Back to basics (or rather: What they all will be laughing at in a century) Part I

  You might be aware or even take for granted that the two classes that are being used by most programmers today are both called Object. In Java and in .NET these two are the root of all (evil): all types implemented by genius developers around the world Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 20, 2005 10:26 PM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding, Design

• Search me again

  After struggling with loads of javascript/DHTML I optimized the Search functionality on this blog. I wanted a couple of features: A nice Google button Not Googleing when there are no keywords to look for. Allowing the user to press Enter after typing Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 20, 2005 11:37 AM by Erno de Weerd | 2 Comments Filed under: Off topic, Coding

• Building Singletons

  One of the questions I get asked many times is how to create a Singleton using .Net and C#. Several problems occur when trying to implement a robust Singleton. For instance, locking issues when using static (shared) members to keep track of the instance. Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 20, 2005 9:18 AM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding, Design

• Got an interest in Avalon?

  I've noticed that quite a few googleing visitors end up reading my blog while searching for Avalon tutorials. Some time ago I wrote a post on Avalon primarily containing pointers to Avalon tutorials because I'm interested in Avalon too. So, I'm now considering Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 19, 2005 8:47 PM by Erno de Weerd | 3 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding

• Search me!

  As you can see on the left there's a new option that allows you to search my blog using Google. For those of you that like the technical bits and bytes: just add the following HTML/javascript to a page: <input id="googleQuery" type="text" /><br/> Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 19, 2005 8:44 PM by Erno de Weerd | 1 Comments Filed under: Off topic, Coding

• Why I want to attend the PDC 05

  Five years ago I attended the famous PDC 2000 in Orlando. This was the PDC that presented .NET for the very first time to a crowd of 6000 attendants. It took me a month to really grasp the meaning of what had been shown to us. Not that the presentations Read More... Posted Thursday, July 14, 2005 7:16 PM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Training, Coding

• PDC 2005 Developer Powered

  The PDC 2005 will not only be developer powered but also Info Support powered! Together with 3 fellow Info Supporters I will be joining Microsoft for a week of fun and games! serious work! Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 12, 2005 5:55 PM by Erno de Weerd | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Coding