Eric Nelson just released and published the free 96 page book “Windows Azure Platform: Articles from the Trenches Volume One”. I consider it an honour to have been chosen as one of the 15 authors to write an article for this first volume. The contents of the book in a nutshell... [More]

Starting tomorrow, I have a short two week holiday planned. That means no I/O when it comes to development, troubleshooting, management jibberish, e-mail, phone… or simply whatever.   But just to tick off some of the colleagues who will be working in a seething, roaring 30+ degree centigrade... [More]

As a result of taking some days off (“simply because I CAN”) I discovered on return – and to my uttermost surprise - that my desk was occupied by a new colleague: Thank you very much, my fellow developers. I shall contemplate on an appropriate response. Think bullets, spears or ... [More]

The last few weeks, I participated in the Tweakers.net Microsoft SQL Challenge 2008: a combined initiative between the Dutch Tweakers.net community and Microsoft.   Quick facts There were a total of 440+ contestants who tried to answer one in depth question correctly every day regarding S... [More]