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Parking misery in Amsterdam

2009-09-13T14:05:00.002+02:00

No, this is not to complain about parking rates in Amsterdam, even though they are highest in the world. And this is not about not being able to park, which actually got a lot easier due to high parking rates. This is about the parking meters themselvesLets assume I am reasonably intelligent, my eyesight is fine and I can master the dutch language. Then how is it possible it keeps taking me at

And we are still hiring developers

2009-08-28T09:41:00.004+02:00

Yes we are still hiring developers. Not because we're replacing people that left. No we are just growing. At this moment we're looking for experienced .NET developers with CMS experience. We see some of our Morello customers with a Java implementation moving to a .NET implementation. At the same time this is also a trend with some of our Tridion customers. .NET seems to become more important as

Officialy tracking discussions on the Swine Flu

2009-08-04T16:38:00.003+02:00

On our Testsite you can read tweets from any person on the planet using the word Flu or related terms. It's really interesting to see how online communication spreads in a similar way as the Virus we are tweeting about.Check it out and be amazed on how you can read the stories and concerns of real people.

What shall we call our Test Site?

2009-07-28T10:59:00.002+02:00

We hired a consultancy firm to advise on the name for our testsite. After months of hard work and spending thousands on consultancy fees they came up with this brilliant name: Testsite!It's brilliant, why didn't I think of that myself?Our TestSite is just that, a test site, with a very good name :-)

Not all sugar is bad

2009-07-23T12:28:00.005+02:00

They say sugar is bad for you. But "they" say a lot. I've been using Sugarsync for a while now and it isn't bad. It isn't bad at all!Sugarsync is a service with a small application that takes care of something many people struggle with. You work on files from different computers and you wonder about how to back up your files. Both issues are addressed when you start using Sugarsync.Sugarsync runs

Forgot your password? Again?

2009-07-13T21:10:00.002+02:00

I use a great tool called KeePass to store all my different passwords in. One big plus about this is that it's FREE.I had to do something to keep all the different passwords in one convenient yet "safe" location. And don't get me wrong this program KeePass is extremely safe, and that's where the danger lies! It is so extremely safe and secure that one day I completely forgot the one password

HTC Magic usability nightmare

2009-06-30T16:42:00.003+02:00

You would think having an example as the iPhone would give you a lot of inspiration to create a great product. But the HTC Magic has one crazy design flaw that I call a usability nightmare. When you receive a call the big button on the front lights up. It asks for attention and almost forces you to press on it. That's the effect of a flashing button :-) But it doesn't do anything! Answering a

SDL Tridion 2009

2009-06-28T23:45:00.000+02:00

Not SDL Tridion R5.4 or SDL Tridion R6, but a brand new SDL Tridion 2009! A brand new naming convention for the start of a new future for SDL Tridion.One package with all the different add-ons included.A greatly improved Outbound Email (TMCS), with all those extra features now included allowing for a much greater control of contact groups, security, temporary users and campaigns.A new Interface

Ardennes 2009

2009-06-23T11:17:00.006+02:00

For the 4th year we organized our official long weekend. This year we went to the Belgium Ardennes for an adventure filled trip with the Dutch office of Indivirtual and Sentia. Our long weekend is also open for partners of our employees, so all husbands and wives of our staff could see what our company is all about.We rented a huge villa in Spa (see picture). From this villa we had a choice of

DevDays ‘09 The Netherlands day #2

2009-05-29T20:42:00.002+02:00

The second day of DevDays and 5 more interesting sessions to follow.At 9:15 the first session of this day started it called “Functional Programming in C#” from Oliver Sturm. In this session we dived deep in to C# with a lot of C# 3.5 LINQ and lambda expressions. The question was, why would we use functional programming in C#, the answer was given with some practical examples.The second session of

DevDays ‘09 The Netherlands day #1

2009-05-28T21:47:00.006+02:00

Today was the first day of DevDays ‘09 in the World Forum in The Hague city. There are around 80 sessions in these two days, from cloud computing, .NET, Ajax to Silverlight and a lot more subjects.The first sessions of today was the key note session with David Chappel, the talk was about Microsoft's cloud computing platform Azure. He told us what this new technology means and what it can do, like

Umbraco Demo

2009-04-17T10:07:00.004+02:00

Last week I have seen a Demo about Umbraco, the demo was given by Richard Soeteman from Soetemansoftware an experienced Umbraco developer.Umbraco is a CMS that fully integrated with .NET, it’s supports .NET out of the out-of-the-box, you can use .NET Custom Controls and .NET User Controls without extra effort. You can place your controls everywhere in the template and even in the rich text editor

Shaikh Mohammad sets up e-government for Dubai

2009-03-14T08:21:00.001+01:00

Dubai: His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE, has issued, in his capacity as Ruler of Dubai, law no 7 of 2009 establishing the Dubai e-government.The new entity will devise the general strategy of the e-government, provide leadership, guide and supervision of the migration process into the e-module at governmental levels, and design

World Wide Web marks 20th anniversary

2009-03-14T07:41:00.000+01:00

Geneva: The World Wide Web or internet marked its 20th anniversary on Friday, with inventor Tim Berners-Lee taking part in commemorations at the CERN laboratory.The British software genius came up with the idea of the internet exactly 20 years ago from today.With the help of other scientists at CERN, Berners-Lee set up the system to allow thousands of scientists around the world to stay in

Migrating to Microsoft Online Services | Hosted Exchange

2009-02-06T10:14:00.004+01:00

Because of our international presence we were looking for a better way of hosting our e-mail. So we decided to migrate from our locally hosted Exchange server to Microsoft Online Services Hosted Exchange.It works in the end! And we are now experts in migrating from a local Exchange server to Hosted Exchange. This wasn't our intention because we hoped for a painless migration. However because of

What technology can do if you use it right

2009-01-14T22:25:00.004+01:00

I've been to several Apple stores in North America in the last 12 months but I actually never made a purchase. Yesterday I wanted to find an alarm clock that also serves as a docking station for my iPhone. So you basically wake up to a nice tune from your iPod or iPhone, while your iPhone has been charging all night. A perfect combination I thought so I went out to buy one at the Apple store in a

2009: Facebook to conquer the Netherlands

2009-01-07T23:37:00.002+01:00

Recently I noticed many more Facebook invites from Dutch people. It's snowballing I think and I can see why.Hyves (the Dutch version of Myspace) is the market leader in the Netherlands but it's layout and audience doesn't appeal to everybody. Still they use it because everybody is using it. This doesn't make it good. There's so many inferior products used by millions of people. Just until

Nu officieel: de url balk gaat verdwijnen!

2008-12-11T09:59:00.005+01:00

De url balk begint langzaam, net als bijvoorbeeld bij telefoonnummers, zijn waarde te verliezen en zal meer naar de achtergrond verdwijnen.Waarbij je vroeger nog alle telefoonnummers van iedereen moest onthouden (hoeveel ken je er nu nog uit je hoofd??) omdat je ze ook telkens opnieuw moest invoeren op een telefoon, zo werkt dat ook voor domeinnamen.Natuurlijk zijn er een paar gelukkigen die

Travel

2008-11-28T16:59:00.004+01:00

Lately we're very much involved in the topic of travelling. We work for Martinair, we just came back from a workshop with Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group in the States and we are passengers ourselves when going on business trips.So we have the insider and outsider view. Also there's so much going on on-line when it comes to the travel market. Web 2.0 initiatives like Tripit and Kayak are very

The UAE is set to become the first country worldwide to offer complete internet domain names in a language other than English

2008-11-01T06:18:00.002+01:00

Dubai: The UAE is set to become the first country worldwide to offer complete internet domain names in a language other than English by late next year.Currently, efforts to this end by some countries, like in China, have achieved only partial success since the .com part of the URL (uniform resource locator) must still be in English. The new initiative, however, will allow the complete domain name

SDN Conference Day #2

2008-10-07T20:25:00.004+02:00

Vandaag (7 okt) was het dag #2 van de SDN Conference. Zelfde opzet als dag #1 alleen 1 sessie ronde minder, maar daardoor niet minder interessant.De volgende sessies had ik op mijn lijstje staan voor vandaag:DB.04 Rock Star Common Table Expressions door Stephen ForteCommon table expressions (CTE) is een nieuwe feature in SQL 2005/2008. CTE is erg handig voor recursive queries, ranking en voor het

SDN Conference Day #1

2008-10-06T23:31:00.016+02:00

Vandaag (Maandag 6 okt) waren we met 3 indivirtuals afgereisd naar het pittoreske Noordwijkerhout waar de SDN Conference werd gehouden, oftewel SDC.Op de SDC waren sessies over bijv .NET, Information worker, DotNetNuke, Delphi, Database, Architecture en User eXperience. De sessies waar ik vooral naar toe was gegaan waren de .NET/Architecture sessies.Voor vandaag stonden voor mij de volgende

Dubai Madness or Wonder?

2008-08-20T13:45:00.000+02:00

Just as we thought that there is no more craziness possible in Dubai… Dubai as usual proves you wrong! More man-made islands, more man-made lakes, rainforests, rivers and ski slopes in the middle of the desert followed by life-size replicas of world wonders like the Great Wall of China and many others, etc…What is even more fascinating is that they plan to complete ALL of this in about 15 years

Eerste Nationale Marketingdag

2008-07-15T22:26:00.002+02:00

Op 25 juni werd voor het eerst de Nationale Marketingdag georganiseerd, hét Nederlands event op het gebied van online marketing. Wat speelt er? Wat is belangrijk? En wat gaat er komen? Samen met collega Indivirtual Patricia was ik erbij. Het meeste indruk heeft de presentatie van Joris van Heukelom gemaakt over ‘Het Internet is een kleuter’. Een wervelende presentatie over twee archetypes, Henk

Global Blogging

2008-07-14T13:28:00.003+02:00

As you may have noticed in the previous post, we have bloggers from other countries now. We recently started in Dubai and the USA. Inside Indivirtual is from the people of Indivirtual regardless of their location. So watch this space for interesting postings from Amsterdam, Washington DC and Dubai.

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