Alain's Globosphere

Hi guys, We're now preparing the content of the Belgium Dev & ITPro days. I appear to have the ownership of the content together with Rudi Larno. Please tell us what you want to see and what you want to learn! Topics can go over: Visual Studio.NET...

As I said earlier in my blog , I had the opportunity to speak at TechEd Yokohama. This was my first time in the far east and my first contact with the Japanese people in their own country. First of all, I felt ... lost! Actually, very few of them can...

After the recommendation of our travel agent (thanks Isabelle), I decided to fly Lufthansa to go to Tokyo. While waiting at the gate, someone came to me. He probably saw my red shirt with "Microsoft TechEd 03 Speaker" written on it. He nicely gave me...

I must admit this is absolutely great: I've been invited to Tech'Ed 2004 in Yokohama in Japan by my colleague Masashi. The subject I'll be presenting will be " Conceptual Approach to Application and Platform Interoperability ". Simon has done a superb...

I read a lot of comments about the backward compatibility "issues" of Windows XP SP2 and I understand that this could be quite frustrating that an application does not run the way it always did but let me try telling why by using a real life example,...

Hi all, this is great Architect information ... thanks to our friend Arvindra

An excerpt from the download page of MandrakeLinux: " Since Mandrakelinux is an Open Source product, it needs your financial contribution . Developing a Linux distribution is very costly , so it's up to the community of users to ensure its health....

About 3 weeks ago, I got a Smartphone Qtek 8060 powered with Windows Mobile 2003 . Well, it changed my life! Before having that device, I had a Nokia mobile phone and an iPaq PDA (read about new HP iPaqs here ). That was 2 devices to carry at all times...

Hmmm, well I'm a bit skeptical when it comes to all the meanings (and consequences thereof) of the word "Open" these days in our beloved IT industry!! While reading the news, I found two interresting quotes: From Mr Peter Shay, executive Vice...

After a very long time thinking about it, I finally decided to try the blogging adventure. Well, I don't know if this will take a lot of my time or not but, you know, if I don't give it a try, I will never ever know! So, here I am. I'll try to keep...