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Working with 'Parameter objects' instead of parameters

Working with 'Parameter objects' instead of parameters Yesterday I stumbled over a good article in German language - Arbeiten mit Parameterobjekten - about using a parameter object rather than using parameters to pass information to functions and methods. As you know, I like this concept very much and actually already

Linux

Running VMware Server on Linux (version 1.0.6 on xubuntu)

Running VMware Server on Linux (version 1.0.6 on xubuntu) After the last article about Running VMware Player on Linux I thought that it would be very nice to be able to create new and modify existing machines. Ergo, let's try the latest version of VMware Server on the same machine.

Linux

Running VMware Player on Linux (xubuntu Hardy Heron)

For developing purposes I installed VMware Player and therefore run virtual machines with Windows XP and Windows Vista. That's way more practical then a multiboot system.

General

Some more articles migrated

Some more articles migrated Finally, I got access to one of my local SQL databases with a couple of more articles from my previous blog. It's really interesting to see what I've written throughout the past. Well, today I was able to migrate about 50 more articles from that database.

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Re-Blogged

Re-Blogged Another sleepless evening or better said sleepless night gave me some time to work on the visual presentation of this blog. During the last weekend I was looking for some ideas on web site templates. Well, there are a lot of free (as in beer) resources out there but

Development

Private projects added (at least started...)

Private projects added (at least started...) I couldn't stop... There were still some tweaks and fine-tunings to do on this blog after I uploaded the new template and CSS files. But for the moment, I'm okay with the current visual outfit of this blog. After I finished with the re-design

Community

Another MVP in Mauritius

Another MVP in Mauritius Cool!Recently, I found out that there is another Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in Mauritius. He is nominated in Windows Mobile and writes a lot of information on this topic in his blog about PocketPC. Really interesting and maybe useful for future purposes.Have a look at

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Plans for Mauritius Software Developer User Group (MSDUG)

Plans for Mauritius Software Developer User Group (MSDUG) You know... Old habits don't fall off!And so, I'm still interested in starting and operating (again) a local user group. This one is more in general about topics according to software development, design and data storage than my last ones back in

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Emoticons re-activated

Emoticons re-activated Some articles, especially the old and transferred ones, had some 'cryptic' content like 'icon _ wink' (without spaces) in the text. Well, that were some placeholders to provide icons on the position. Meanwhile I added those content filters to the current blog system and hopefully you should get

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Upgrade to Windows Server Update Services 3.0 SP1

Upgrade to Windows Server Update Services 3.0 SP1 Already last week I upgraded our local Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) from version 2.0 to version 3.0 Service Pack 1. This step wasn't really neccessary but after having a look at the new features and capabilities of version 3.0 I decided

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Transfer of articles re-loaded

Transfer of articles re-loaded Thanks to my reader's feedback I modified the conversion routine of the article transfer from the MySQL database to XML. As the content of this blog is now UTF-8 encoded my article content has to fullfil this as well. So, using VFP this takes just another

Development

Transfer of articles from old blog database

Transfer of articles from old blog database After the successful transfer of my articles from Foxite, I finally converted another bunch of articles from my old blog software. The process itself was quite easy: query database, convert records to XML and write out files.The interesting part is that the original