Not that I am a CSS guru.  Far from…  But these type of measuring got me thinking about mobile design.  It opens a lot of opportunities to get your site easier readable on mobile devices…

• Vw means viewport width,
• Vh becomes the viewport height
• Vmin for the smallest of the two above (vw & vh)

Browser support currently: Chrome20+, Safari 6 en IE9. (or check here for more up-to-date information http://caniuse.com/viewport-units).

Making lots of screenshots from your browser?  Then look at the new firefox command line developer tools.

• Type SHIFT + F2
• type “screenshot myfile.png”
• hit return, and you have a screenshot saved in your downloads directory.

After running my blog for almost 3 years on BlogEngine.Net version 1.5, I’ve finally made some time to upgrade to the latest and greatest BlogEngine.Net 2.5.  The only difference is that I reactivated comments using Disqus!

So, feel free to send me some comments, or catch me on twitter!

Net gezien…  Je vraagt je af of die persoon de dubbele shiften heeft meegeteld…

Voor de niet kenners, op 16 januari 2002 verscheen versie 1.0 van .NET.

If you use CMD.exe, then just hit F7.  It will give you all previous commands as shown in the screenshot below.

Oh btw, because I almost forgot.  There is a easy command prompt to create a new file.

copy con filename.txt

Hit return, just type your text and and with CTRL + Z (and return). You will now have a file with the content you wanted.  Thanks to Scott Hanselman for reminding me!

Normally you would guess that the price goes down when you order for a longer period.  Not with DevExpress components.  It depends on the date until when you want your subscription to be extended. 

I made some calculations.  Apparently there can be a difference of more than $ 0,25 PER DAY for your subscription.

So how to save with devexpress subscriptions.  You try to find:

• a coupon code for your devexpress subscription
• ask a quote
• find the best date

I hope it helps you

Notepad is a stripped down of wordpad.  My guess.   Just see this screenshot and judge yourself!

Noticed the changes in the font size?

Apparently, this year I am celebrating my 10th anniversary on sourceforge.net.  You can see this on my sourceforge profile page.

Not to be proud of really.  I did not created lots of open source code. 

Web front end for vacation

The first project I started 5 years ago was the Web Frontend for Vacation Program.  This is a very simple web administration interface for those using the “vacation” program to set out of office. 

This project started several years ago and has been downloaded 500+ times. That would be 100 download a year or 10 per month since the release of the “final” code. 

I always asked myself: “Does anyone care?”  In 10 years, no one applauded, congratulated or send me a thank you.  That probably would tell much more about the code quality than the friendliness of people.  But yet.

Ymlp.Net

This other project I started earlier this year: YMLP.net (a .Net wrapper for the YMLP API).  YMLP is an abbreviation for YourMailingListProvider.  The name is self declaring, it’s a (cheap)mailing list provider, with an API.  The sample code is only available in PHP and I ported it to .Net (C#).

The project has been downloaded 57 times since January this year.  That would be about almost 10 per month.  Not bad in my opinion.  But even here, no one applauded, congratulated or send a small thank you.  And I am pretty sure the code works.  I use it regularly.

But for the few bugs we had in the code, not a single person reported something on the discussion board, issue tracker or send me an e-mail. No one send his improvements or patches to codeplex, to the forum or to me. 

This project is meant for developers.  It’s an API wrapper.  End users don’t care and won’t use it directly.  So you KNOW that there must have been made changes to the code.  That is what developers do. Furthermore, I know pretty sure their are improvements, the API changed recently and I haven’t had time to implement all new methods last few weeks. 

According to Ohloh this project would cost $ 47 157 to build it up from scratch.  (Which is overrated due to the used calculation method). But still, their are lots of hours put into this project.

Someone has put time (and money) in the project.  Someone created value.  But do you think someone cares? 

No one cares. 

Since when did open source means: “profit from free code and don’t show any gratitude back to the community”.

WOOOW… Myspace finally understands that we do NOT speak French as mother tongue.

Until now i always got myspace in French, which is very frustrating.  I couldn’t change it to English.  I do understand French, but my English reading is more fluent.

Thank you!

Side note about languages for foreign companies thinking about entering Belgian market.  Belgium is small, nevertheless it has 3 (!) official languages: Dutch (59%), French (40%) and German (1%) (numbers from wikipedia ).  Most of the Dutch speaking part are more fluent with English than French.  So please consider to supply your site in English if you can’t support Dutch. 

Ik weet niet wat er aan de hand is, maar ik wilde mijn abonnement op Trends aanpassen. 

Surf ik naar abonnementen.be. Krijg ik daar eerst een compleet franse pagina.  Om vervolgens na één klik toch de nederlandse pagina’s te zien te krijgen.

Helaas krijg ik bij mijn abonnement beheren de gegevens van totaal iemand anders te zien.  ZELFS als ik op uitloggen klik en terug op mijn abonnementen beheren.