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thinktecture & DevelopMentor: Guerilla Enterprise .NET Kurs in München
Geballtes Know-How - für Sie!thinktecture und DevelopMentor kündigen im Rahmen einer Partnerschaft das erste in Deutschland stattfindende "Enterprise .NET"-Event an. Es wird in der Woche vom 26. Mai 2008 in München stattfinden und im berühmt-berüchtigten Read More
posted Friday, February 22, 2008 7:27 PM with 0 Comments

What a lucky day: thinktecture finally has a "face" - Welcome Jörg Neumann
thinktecture always had really great experts for a variety of technologies and areas of expertise in order to help software architects and developers with problems in their projects - but...... we were always lacking some guy who knows how to do good Read More
posted Thursday, January 24, 2008 9:42 AM with 1 Comments

Ready to rumble: Windows Server 2008 RC1 & Hyper-V on my Dell PowerEdge 2900
Alright... let the games begin. Yes: I need more RAM! Read More
posted Friday, December 14, 2007 3:33 PM with 0 Comments

Was geht'n hier für'n Film? Web-Sicherheit mal ganz anders - aber besonders gut!
Am 17.Dezember findet in Hamburg die erste Veranstaltung der brandneuen .net@movies Serie des ProDev Colleges statt. Bei diesem ersten Event geht es um ein Thema, das vielen am Herzen liegen sollte, aber leider doch oft vernachlässigt wird: Web Security.Meine Read More
posted Thursday, October 25, 2007 10:42 AM with 0 Comments

thinktecture has a DB now - Dominick Baier
We are very proud to finally officially announce that Mr. Security himself, Dominick Baier, is the latest and freshest member of thinktecture.Dude, you were just the missing part in our team :) Read More
posted Monday, February 12, 2007 5:04 PM with 0 Comments

Commenting problems
Sorry, we have strange problems when people want to comment on our posts. If you have submitted a comment in the last few weeks and it did not show up here, feel free to contact me.Sorry again. Read More
posted Friday, July 21, 2006 4:32 PM with 1 Comments

Office 2007 Beta 2 - it's here, it's hot!
Go and grab it! And it is indeed more than 'just another Office release', especially for developers - check it out. Read More
posted Tuesday, May 23, 2006 9:22 PM with 1 Comments

This is broken!
I love it - must read, IMO A project to make businesses more aware of their customer experience, and how to fix it Read More
posted Monday, February 27, 2006 7:46 PM with 0 Comments

Welcome to a new home - old style
This is my new blog. Welcome. Nuff said. Read More
posted Monday, September 05, 2005 7:53 AM with 1 Comments

Don't drink and document :)
Just cool. Read More
posted Monday, June 13, 2005 8:50 AM with 5 Comments

Grow! A new thinktect
We are proud to welcome a new member in our group of experts at thinktecture. Buddhike de Silva is a new thinktect and acts as our Lead Developer. Take a look at his current weblog entry and see how much fun he had in the last few days during Ingo’s Read More
posted Thursday, May 19, 2005 10:43 PM with 7 Comments

OT: This is just too incredible...
Huh? http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/scigen/ "Some students at MIT wrote a program called SCIgen - An Automatic CS Paper Generator. From their website: SCIgen is a program that generates random Computer Science research papers, including graphs, figures, Read More
posted Thursday, April 14, 2005 10:44 AM with 6 Comments

OT: I need this - how cool is that?
Oh my god - those were the days... C64 on steroids. And more. Read More
posted Tuesday, February 22, 2005 12:52 AM with 2 Comments

A small tool - but a lifesaver
We recently switched the source code control system for WSCF from SourceSafe to CVS (FYI: we use TortoiseCVS on the client side). Now I searched for a solution to automatically remove all the weird and annoying SCC references in my project and solution Read More
posted Wednesday, February 09, 2005 10:45 AM with 4 Comments

OT: Roku rocks and sucks - and how to listen to your iTunes Music Store music, nevertheless
I just received my Roku SoundBridge M1000 - I love how nicely it plays with my iTunes application running on my PC just connecting to it via WiFi. However there is a drawback that I cannot listen to music I bought from the Apple iTunes Music Store... Read More
posted Wednesday, February 09, 2005 1:17 AM with 1 Comments

You need the best .NET assistance available? Do it for a good purpose! Now.
Aid the people who currently need it most - and get the most excellent .NET consultancy possible, now! Buy an hour of consulting time - Help the Tsunami Victims of Banda Aceh UPDATE: eBay: Link goes live 9am (EST) Sunday http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5552696499 Read More
posted Saturday, January 22, 2005 10:19 AM with 1 Comments

From Web services to Architecture - *sometimes* a small step... MVP
Thanks a lot to my current MVP Lead Ben Miller. He has bundled all strengths to somehow evolve my MVP status from Windows Server System - Xml Web Services to Visual Developer - Solutions Architect. Now, here I come... surrounded by incredibly bright minds. Read More
posted Friday, January 14, 2005 11:00 AM with 2 Comments

OT: Historische Informationen über Neustadt am Main
Nach monatelanger Recherche hat es mein Vater, Klaus Weyer, nun also gewagt, die Web Site zu Neustadt's Geschichte live zu stellen. Wer sich für einen über 1200 Jahre alten Ort mit grosser Tradition interessiert, kann ja mal gerne hinein schnuppern. Read More
posted Thursday, January 13, 2005 9:17 PM with 0 Comments

The victims will thank you, Michael
Michael Schumacher, 7 times Formula 1 world champion, Über-driver and all around German wunderkind, just announced to donate USD 10,000,000 (yes, that is 10 million $!) for the Tsunami disaster victims in Asia. Shivering... Read More
posted Tuesday, January 04, 2005 9:16 AM with 5 Comments

WS-I Advocates Program - joined
We from thinktecture are proud to be an Advocate of the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I). WS-I is an open industry consortium chartered to facilitate Web services interoperability and to accelerate Web services adoption in the Read More
posted Monday, January 03, 2005 10:06 PM with 0 Comments

Do you believe in Web services in 2005?
Simon and I do. They finally will have their breakthrough - cross fingers. Read More
posted Wednesday, December 29, 2004 11:33 AM with 0 Comments

MSDN Online.de Christmas Web Cast
Yesterday, fellow RD Bernd Marquardt, Jens Häupel (DE from Microsoft Germany), and myself did the famous MSDN Online Weinhachts WebCast (Christmas web cast). Besides giving away a number of presents - like books, VS.NET copies, mugs and the like Read More
posted Thursday, December 23, 2004 1:06 AM with 0 Comments

Completely OT: It truly doesn't travel well
Being German I like beer. I tried it at several places all over the world. This draught is gorgeous. But there is an Irisih saying that "Guinness doesn't travel". And It is *so* true. After the IrishDev Christmas Event in Dublin last week I had the Read More
posted Sunday, December 19, 2004 2:24 AM with 1 Comments

Why I (still) count on Web services
;) Read More
posted Tuesday, December 14, 2004 6:26 PM with 0 Comments

OT: Batches for sending Windows into standby or shutting it down
UPDATE: Raymond Chen pointed out that there might occur unpredictable problems when using my StandbyMe batch file. This is because that its function signature is incorrect. He also adds some links for further and deeper information: Platform SDK: Power Read More
posted Sunday, December 05, 2004 6:34 AM with 0 Comments

"An end to the Uber-Operating System"?
Just found a 5 and a half years old snippet re. SOAP back in 1999. This is very funny to read. And of course Mr. Dave Winer has to talk about XML-RPC, too. Now I can recall why a lot of people still think SOAP and Web services is just a modern form Read More
posted Wednesday, November 17, 2004 6:29 AM with 1 Comments

Extending VS 2005 with your own custom DSL and a Graphical Designer - now
Yeah, this opens up a vast number of possibilities... Download: Microsoft Tools for Domain Specific Languages Technology Preview (October 2004 Release) Walkthrough of the Microsoft Tools for Domain Specific Languages DSL Tools Newsgroup Have fun building... Read More
posted Friday, November 05, 2004 11:45 AM with 0 Comments

Mono'ing: a small tool as a life-saver
Currently I am quite deep into understanding, installing, and configuring Linux (better said, SuSE Linux 9.1 Personal). Based on my now running and working configuration - which is hosted in a VPC image - I begin to dig into Mono. Once Read More
posted Wednesday, October 06, 2004 7:06 AM with 0 Comments

Just curious: Linux programs
Tell me: which program available in any of the big Linux distros is so 'must have' that nearly everybody wishes to have it under Windows (... but it isn't there ...)? Any feedback is appreciated. Thanks. Read More
posted Monday, October 04, 2004 8:17 AM with 0 Comments

They did it again: SOAPScope 4.0
A great product can even get greater. SOAPScope 4.0 has been released ... Mindreef SOAPscope 4.0 is a toolkit-independent Web services diagnostic system for examining, debugging, testing, tuning, and supporting Web services. New features include: SOAPscope Read More
posted Tuesday, September 14, 2004 3:13 AM with 0 Comments

What the hell is Java - and what does it look like?
Really interesting: Java Technology Concept Map. Read More
posted Friday, August 06, 2004 10:23 AM with 0 Comments

There is a lot to expect from Amazon, I guess
Wow, Werner Vogels joins Amazon.com as Director of Systems Research. Man, what is Amazon heading to ... let's see. Read More
posted Friday, August 06, 2004 10:04 AM with 0 Comments

About XML
From a customer during a consulting gig last week where we talked about the pros and cons of XML, Web services and SOA:    "The problem of XML is not just that it is human-readable, but that it is also manager-readable ..." Enough said. Read More
posted Sunday, July 25, 2004 11:05 PM with 2 Comments

Indigo guys @TechEd Europe 2004
From left to right: Ingo Rammer, Juval Lowy, Christian Weyer, Benjamin Mitchell, Clemens Vasters Read More
posted Monday, July 12, 2004 4:37 AM with 1 Comments

Love is the message and the message is love ...
Not a lot may know this: but already last year in my TechEd Europe session I felt to sing a quite well-known song by MSFB ... it was at the end of the session, so no worries ... "Love is the message and the message is love ..." - just to emphasize my Read More
posted Thursday, July 01, 2004 11:42 PM with 0 Comments

"And now for something completely different ..." - check out dotnet.tv!
If you think you have seen it all ... check out thinktecture's Ralf Westphal's dotnet.tv. This time it is completely in English and the topic is Web services. Cool and both educating and entertaining. Read More
posted Wednesday, June 23, 2004 10:49 PM with 2 Comments

This can save your life - 'well known' ports
Network Ports Used by Key Microsoft Server Products Read More
posted Wednesday, June 16, 2004 8:46 PM with 0 Comments

What a man - a must read weblog
Mike Taulty ... wow. Great stuff on there. Ranges from .NET Fx to ASMX to WSE and back ... great. Read More
posted Tuesday, May 25, 2004 5:41 AM with 0 Comments

"You're IDisposable!"
Check out the RD booth at TechEd 2004 in San Diego. Some very interesting things going on there ...! Scott Hanselmann will rock da house: You'll want to stop by and see if you have the intellectual horsepower it takes to be the Apprentice.NET!  Read More
posted Wednesday, May 19, 2004 8:54 PM with 0 Comments

Blond Web services poison
Michelle, my dear, has a blog. Great. We are both fighting the Web services interop war ... she is pure poison. Read More
posted Wednesday, May 12, 2004 10:54 PM with 0 Comments

Ready, set, go!
I guess you heard it in the meantime: we were able to found a new consulting company focused on helping software architects and developers in their projects. Well, you might say this happens every day somewhere around the world, so why should Read More
posted Sunday, May 09, 2004 10:43 PM with 1 Comments

A cornucopia of expertise
So, yes, I found this team I talked about earlier on. When you add their work up, it becomes truly impressing: 12 books, 150 articles, 120 conference talks all around the world. It's amazing. Just one more day for all the details. Read More
posted Sunday, May 09, 2004 1:23 AM with 0 Comments

Home stretch
http://www.thinktecture.com - still two days left. Read More
posted Saturday, May 08, 2004 2:32 AM (Comments Off)

Rumors are rumors
Yes, my favorite color is red ... No, I'm not joining the other side. After the next four days, things will be different. Read More
posted Wednesday, May 05, 2004 8:50 PM (Comments Off)

Let's see what happens
Hm ... I've spent the last couple of months thinking about some new ideas. Good ideas. Things are going to be interesting after the next five days. Let's see ... Read More
posted Tuesday, May 04, 2004 7:57 PM with 1 Comments

Free your mind - a totally different way to learn about [Web services]
Yes, the topic this time is Web services - but put any technology related to .NET inside the brackets. This is a totally different, a totally new format of teaching .NET technology - of delivering what a certain part of .NET is, why it is and how it is. Read More
posted Saturday, May 01, 2004 10:45 PM with 0 Comments

Times are changing - necessary steps for this blog
UPDATE: comments are now disabled. OK, bad things first: I have to disable the comment feature of my blog as I received hundreds of spam messages in the last few days. This is a sad day for me ... This all will happen as soon as I have found out why Read More
posted Friday, April 09, 2004 10:23 AM with 0 Comments

So many WS-Brains eating Japanese angle brackets
What a great bunch of people - and I wasn't able to attend the MVP Summit ... bummer. Read More
posted Friday, April 09, 2004 8:24 AM with 0 Comments

Experts on Flat Screen - CeBIT 2004 live coding and demos
Sind Sie in Hannover oder in der Umgebung? Dann kommen Sie auf die CeBIT auf den Microsoft-Stand in Halle 4, A 38. Interessieren Sie sich für kreative Tools und Lösungen basierend auf .NET? Wollten Sie schon immer mal wissen wie man einen eigenen Read More
posted Monday, March 22, 2004 9:46 AM with 2 Comments

The face of the CLR
Ever wondered what the CLR looks like? I mean not in terms of bits and bytes - but put on with a face everybody would recognize (and love) ... ;-) And I always thought this guy is more addicted to Web services, not the 'core' CLR. Read More
posted Monday, March 08, 2004 12:03 AM with 2 Comments

Express your imaginations - ImagineCup 2004
What is it? Imagine Cup is a student technology competition (open to college and high school) that covers a variety of subjects from software design, to graphics/rendering, to short film, to algorithms. What is the history? The first Imagine Cup occured Read More
posted Thursday, March 04, 2004 10:12 PM with 0 Comments

People, Programmers - Web services?
A more or less philosophical discussion about Web services with business relevant implications. Interesting read. Related to this - as mentioned in the artcile - you owe yourself a look at this - at least the concepts make a story to base on, IMHO. Read More
posted Wednesday, February 18, 2004 11:29 PM with 4 Comments

Architectural musings - brilliant
Frankly, my most favorite blogger currently: Michael Platt. Read More
posted Monday, February 16, 2004 2:41 AM with 0 Comments

Sometimes the best things are those you don't see
True, how true this is. E.g., I like that my car has an airbag and ABS. Clemens has to fight the very same problems I and other colleagues are experiencing when trying not only to sell a vision, but to make clear to people and customers why they need Read More
posted Friday, January 30, 2004 4:26 AM with 2 Comments

Test from NewsGator with .Text plugin
Does it work? Hm, seems so ... Read More
posted Saturday, January 10, 2004 4:38 AM with 0 Comments

Desperately seeking Chris Dix
Who knows where Chris Dix is? Read More
posted Thursday, December 25, 2003 2:56 PM with 4 Comments

Security issues: eye-opening but sad
Cross-Site Java breaks Sandbox Isolation for Unsigned Applets. Read More
posted Thursday, October 23, 2003 11:27 AM with 0 Comments

For the unmanaged and non-MS Web services programmers: Axis
If everything goes well we will see a pure C++ version of Apache Axis in November 2003. Read More
posted Wednesday, October 15, 2003 2:12 PM with 2 Comments

John Lennon would cry - SOAP == Peace?
Pat Helland singing 'Give SOAP a change' with David Campbell on guitar (lyrics by Don Box). Read More
posted Tuesday, October 14, 2003 10:04 AM with 0 Comments