Normally I hate it when some flash advertisements pop up when you first enter a site and ruin your browsing experience. Today I saw a refreshing one. My first reaction was the normal irritation that I could not click through as fast as I wanted but then it actually made me laugh.
The little dog interacts with the objects on the page: A WMF knife box, a buzz saw and more - he even pees on the chef’s hat 
Take a look at it here: payback.de
I’ve been to the Microsoft Launch 2007 in Frankfurt last week. The event was really huge, 5000-7000 people listening to the sessions and wandering through the halls. Microsoft kicked off their 2008 products Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008.
I attended the database/business intelligence tracks and learnt some stuff about the new SQL server features (Change Data Capture, Merge, Resource Governor, Georeferencing, Filestream data type etc). I still need some time to evalute the features but the final server is released in Q3 at the earliest anyway. My colleagues attended mostly Windows Server and security tracks and were most impressed by the Server Core and the virtualisation Hyper V.
Maybe I will post something about the new features soon, so long you can test the SQL Server 2008 yourself: The feature complete February CTP has been released last week and can be downloaded.
Wow, obviously the new computer (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) is working great, but I still owe you the objective numbers of the benchmarks.
Old computer
(3GHz P4, 1.5GB, Radeon [...] Continue Reading…
In part 1 I presented my wishlist, in part 2 I showed you the parts, now it is time to assemble the parts.
I carefully took out the mainboard and [...] Continue Reading…
Finally the big packages arrived. The hardware I decided on before came in two packages and in three plastic bags. I got the hardware from two different dealers [...] Continue Reading…
When your name is computhomas you have to get a new computer once in a while. My current workhorse was bought in march 2004 and although it [...] Continue Reading…
Beside my 10 tips for successful presentations, the blog writing project produced a lot of other useful tips and tricks. The posts i like the most are:
Long Haul Flights [...] Continue Reading…
A presentation might make an IT guy even more nervous than other people. But that is not necessary. With some easy tips and training you will perform (almost) like [...] Continue Reading…
Our local transportation department is also responsible for part 2 of It’s about how you say it. But this time they aren’t the communicators.
Same station as in part 1, [...] Continue Reading…
The guys at Mingle2 created a nice illustration of the typical mind of a web developer. Nice stuff
(Click the image for a larger view)
By Mingle2, found via Shawn [...] Continue Reading…
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