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[Review]: Microsoft Silverlight 4 Business Application Development: Beginner’s Guide

Sunday, May 9th, 2010

Microsoft Silverlight is a programmable web browser plug-in that enables features including animation, vector graphics, and audio-video playback - features that characterize Rich Internet Applications. Silverlight makes possible the development of RIA applications in familiar .NET languages such as C# and VB.NET. The book ( by Cameron Albert and Frank LaVigne ...

Free eBooks from Packt Publishing

Friday, May 7th, 2010

Packt is set to launch two free eBooks to celebrate the brand launch of Packt Open Source and Packt Enterprise. This article offers a slightly more in-depth look at what the brand launch will mean.

My blog is being spammed

Friday, May 7th, 2010

Seems like the well known spammer located in Amsterdam has choosen my blog for comment spam. Akismet does a great job ( 69,466 spams caught, 336,274 legitimate comments, and an overall accuracy rate of 99.994%.) but I saw a lot of comments over the last 24 hours not filtered by ...

Es tut sich was in Richtung Extension Manager und Java

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010

Addins mit Java zu erstellen ist ja bereits möglich und einem Teil der ND Entwicklergemeinde durch die Vortäge von Matthias Bierl und Andy Brunner auf den EntwicklerCamps bekannt. Jetzt tut sich auch etwas, um auch Extension Manager mit Java zu erstellen. Aber Vorsicht, das ist noch keine 1 zu 1 Umsetzung der ...

Ubuntu – reset root password

Sunday, May 2nd, 2010

I wanted to update a virtual machine from Ubunto 9.10 to 10.04 but I could not recall the root password. None of my standard passwords worked. Google to the rescue, I found a way to reset the root password. 1) Login as non-root user 2) sudo su - 3) type in the password ...

Lotus Notes Sametime 8.5 – Meeting Server Tipp

Friday, April 23rd, 2010

During the installation and configuration I came across a problem with slide conversion. Although I had configured the system variables according to the documentation, the slide conversion did not work. No document was converted and I therefore was not able to share documents during a meeting. Some hours later and with ...

Upcoming Book Review: Microsoft Silverlight 4 Business Application Development: Beginner’s Guide

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

I have been asked by Packt Publishing to review a new book titled "Microsoft Silverlight 4 Business Application Development: Beginner’s Guide". The book is written by Frank LaVigne and Cameron Albert and has been published in April 2010. As always, Packt Publishing made available a free chapter for online reading. Follow the ...

DAOS enhancement in 8.5.2

Monday, April 19th, 2010

The behavior of compact options is changed in 8.5.2 when compact options for DAOS and archiving are used in combination. You can now use a combination of options to DAOS-enable a newly created archive database. load compact -a -DAOS on mail\database.nsf When an archive database is newly created during the archive, the ...

Lotus Notes Traveler: Remote wipe on Nokia devices

Saturday, April 10th, 2010

One of the features that are missing on a Nokia device whne using Lotus Notes Traveler is the ability to remotly wipe the device in case of the device has been stole or got lost for some reason. Nokia now offers the Lotus Traveler Security enablement library to activate remote security ...

ILUG2010: Registration, Flight, Hotel

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

After registration for ILUG 2010 has opened its e-doors yesterday, I received the approval of my registration at 02:03 am today. I immediately booked the flights and reserved a room at the conference hotel. If you want to stay at the conference hotel, it is a good idea to mail your reservation ...

ILUG 2010: Registration is open

Tuesday, April 6th, 2010

Registration for ILUG 2010 is now open. Click here to register

ILUG 2010 – Registration will open on April 6th

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

"We're pleased to announce that, better organised than ever (honest), we're going to open up registration for ILUG on April 6th. So get your attendee, speaker and sponsor details ready!" Follow this link for further details.

BLUG: My presentation on DAOS

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

Here are the slides from my presentation on DAOS at the BLUG conference on 30-Mar-2010 in Brussels, Belgium. Daos View more presentations from Ulrich Krause. Thanks to all who attended and gave feedback either by asking question or filling in the evaluations.

BLUG: Conference review

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

BLUG started for me on monday afternoon when driving from my office to Brussels.Took me about 3 hours for 250 kilometers. Arrived at the hotel at 7:00 pm where Theo and some of the conference speakers already sat at the bar and had a beer or two. After I was introduced ...

Notes 8.5.1 FP 2 available

Friday, March 26th, 2010

FP2 for Notes and Domino 8.5.1 is available for Download on FixCentral.

BLUG: Only few seats left

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

Next week on 30-March-2010, BLUG starts. This FREE, one day event will take place in the IBM Forum, Bourgetlaan 42, Zaventem (Brussels). According to an email I received yesterday, there are a few seats left. If you have not yet registered, go ahead and grab your seat ... NOW!! If you cannot ...

Book Review: Grok 1.0 Web Development from Packt Publishing

Sunday, March 21st, 2010

I’ve been asked by PACKT publishing to review a new book  Grok 1.0 Web Development. Grok? Who or what is Grok? "Grok is a web application framework for Python developers. It is aimed at both beginners and very experienced web developers. Grok  has an emphasis on agile development. Grok is easy and ...

Search for auto-populated group members failed for group …

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

I tried to get the auto-populate group feature to work in one of our branch offices, but always got a “Search for auto-populated group members failed for group TEST.: Error looking up name on LDAP Server; See server log for further details.” error message. I finally gave up because I ...

The sweetest dictionary ever

Sunday, March 14th, 2010

Thanks to the staff at Maritim Hotel, Gelsenkirchen.

Entwicklercamp 2010 – My session slides

Sunday, March 14th, 2010

Here is my presentation on "C/C++ API for Beginners" for download or online reading. C / C++ Api for BeginnersView more presentations from Ulrich Krause. Enjoy!