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I have taken the last couple of weeks to create a new utility to keep track of the notes that come up during my work or other things when I’m behind my computer. It took some time out of my life, but I really like the result. I hope you download the tool and let [...]

In Windows Live Writer you can add Plugins that do certain things for you. One of those things is to add syntax highlighting to your postings.
I found a Code Formatter for Windows Live Writer that does just about all you need, except of course for PL/SQL (and Delphi) code. Doing some more searching on the [...]

In my company we are thinking about web-enabling some (parts) of our applications. There are a lot of tools available out there. We are considering the following options (amongst others):
 Application Express by Oracle
 Flex by Adobe
 Delphi for PHP by CodeGear
Do you have any comments on this subject? What is (in your opinion) the [...]

After a short holiday in Landal Greenparks I am back home again. We enjoyed a nice stay in a small cottage and we did some sightseeing in the 10 days we were in Germany. The kids really enjoyed the swimming pool and the indoor playground. But when we went to see places, they mostly liked what they saw too. [...]

Here’s a new idea (well maybe not too new). How about taking an existing database and then building a new front-end to it. I think there are a lot of applications running in companies that are not really up-to-date. Especially with their user-interface. They might even still be Dos/terminal based. Why are these applications still [...]