Tag: Personal
All the articles with the tag "Personal".
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Thank you, ISP!
Living in Belgium sometimes feels like living in the desert. Over the past few years, my ISP has always offered the same: a cable modem subscription with 10Mbit downstream speed, and 256Kbit upstream speed. Great! Except for that data transfer limit of 12 GB per month and the ridiculous price of 42 EUR (that is 61 US$). And no, there are few better alternatives in this center of Europe...
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ASP.NET MVC Framework - Basic sample application
You might have noticed that I'm quite enhousiast about the new ASP.NET MVC framework. Basically, this new ASP.NET MVC framework is an alternative to standard ASP.NET webforms, with some advantages: For more information and a step-by-step tutorial, check Scott Guthrie's blog: For an article I'm working on, I am writing a sample application using this framework. This sample application is a very basic photo album website, listing some albums and photo's. Anyone who's interested in a sample MVC application (no data entry yet!) can download it.
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PackageExplorer, not only great for OpenXML...
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PHP zip:// and parse_url...
After having a few months of problems using PHP and fopen('zip://something.xlsx#xl/worksheets/sheet1.xml', 'r'), I finally found the reason of that exact line of code giving errors on some PC's... Assuming this uses a call to parse_url under the hood, I tried parsing this, resulting in the following URL parts: Array ( [scheme] => zip [host] => something.xlsx#xl [path] => /worksheets/sheet1.xml ) That's just not correct... Parsing should return the following: Conclusion: beware when using parse_url and the zip file wrapper!
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My job?
Seems that, according to this Wikipedia entry, I work at Microsoft: To clarify this: I do not work at Microsoft, but at Dolmen, one of the top Belgian IT firms. I do work with Microsoft technology and tend to promote their technology too, but no job at Microsoft.(Thank you Wouter for showing me this)
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Commandline FTP folder download
A quick annoyed post... I just spent two hours searching the Internet for a means on how to recursively download a complete FTP folder, command-line, and in a simple way. Oh yeah, and preferably freeware. The solutions I found were not what I expected: a $50 software product providing a GUI (I said command-line! [:@]), a bloated scheduler thingy that does download in the background (I said simple! [8o|]), to batch-files relying on Windows built-in ftp.exe and a gigantic list of all files that need to be downloaded.
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My blog has just moved...
Just finished painting, unpacked some boxes, and here we are: a new home! The people from Eurobesthosting.com (shameless commercial plug in my blog) provided me my own ASP.NET server, which is now serving this page/RSS feed to you! A new home also means new URL's... I did my best forwarding all old URL's to this new page, but I won't keep the forwarding for the next century... The only noteworthy thing for you as a RSS reader, is the RSS feed URL, which has changed to: /rss.aspx. If you placed a link to my blog on your website, please change that link to /.
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MCTS for .NET framework 2.0 Web applications
Just like my colleague Kristof did last friday, I passed the Microsoft.NET Framework 2.0 - Web-based Client Development (Exam 070-528) exam yesterday, resulting in a new certification title: I’m now offically a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist for .NET framework 2.0 Web applications.
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SendMailControl for ASP.NET
Have you ever used the ASP.NET PasswordRecovery control, or the CreateUserWizard? Probably, you used the mail capabilities of these controls too, and set up a MailDefinition to send an e-mail when the control did his job. Personally, I missed this functionality when wanting to send mails to users. Luckily, ASP.NET is very extensible. I decided to create my own control providing an easy and convenient way to sending templated e-mails. Just set the From, CC, Subject and Body properties in the designer, and use the Send() method from code. Not the cleanest implementation of catching SMTP errors, but it was sufficient for my use. If you need to catch SMTP errors, you still need to add that... Anyway, as a gift for anyone who needs it, please find my SendMailControl underneath: [code:c#]
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Excel, OpenXML and PHP
Yay! My new article on Excel, OpenXML and PHP has just been released in php|architect! A copy-paste action from http://www.phparch.com/issue.php?mid=102: "A few months ago, Microsoft released Office 2007, a version of their office suite that generates open source documents. Here, Maarten Balliauw gives an overview of the history and the politics surrounding the release before moving on to introduce his PHPExcel project, an early adoption of Microsoft's OpenXML API that enables Excel 2007 spreadsheets to be generated with PHP."