While catching up on some RSS feeds, I felt the need for a site/RSS feed which would gather PDC related blog entries. A site like TechEdBloggers.net, but then for PDC related materials. So I checked TechEdBloggers.net and yes, these guys (Drew, Mike and Kevin) have just announced they will kick off a PDCBloggers site, just like they did for TechEd. They say they will open soon... Let's hope their site is up and running next week, as they suggest...

DoMyMove is a new service which makes your life a bit easier when it comes to moving, by notifying suppliers about your change of address: electricity, gas, water, teledistribution, phone, Internet, banks, insurances, newspapers, magazines, loyalty cards, ...

DoMyMove will avoid you long waits on the telephone, standing in line, or filling in forms several times. You also avoid forgetting important details. All you need to do is to fill in one single DoMyMove form, and your suppliers will automatically be updated on your new address. For only 12 € (8 € from 1/7 to 31/8/2003), DoMyMove will notify up to 100 different suppliers.

How can I get DoMyMove?

• In your nearest Belgian Post office: fill-in a form and return it to the Post office.
• By calling 070/ 22 44 14 in order to receive a form at your current address. Fill-in the form and return it to your nearest Post office.
• In one of the Belgacom teleshops. Fill-in the form and return it to your nearest Post office.
• On the website at www.domymove.be

 The text above was copied from the DoMyMove website.

Apparently Google started dancing again yesterday.

More info and links on http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/1/27/221829/873.

Kim Clijsters, one of the two Belgian  top tennis players, won the JPMorgan Chase Open tournament in Los Angeles and took over the first place in the ranking from Serena Williams. Like Sports Illustrated says on its tennis homepage: "Clij-mbing to the top".

Congratulations, Kim. Utmost respect...

[Search Google on Kim Clijsters to find more information]

Ian White has listed several funny links. I enjoyed most of them... Warning: you might loose losts of time with his links (and not all are appropriate to view during working hours).

And discussing PDC with people from the Belux community at http://groups.msn.com/PDC2003ForumForBelux/

Microsoft Watch reports that Whidbey (successor to VS.NET 2003) is officially in alpha stage and released to a limited number of testers. They also report, what we all hope for, that a beta of Whidbey might be distributed on the PDC2003.

Jeff Key has listed a couple of tips for Windows. Some I already knew, others were interesting.

Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM) has been released. Documentation is available on MSDN. Looks promissing.

This night I dived into DasBlog source code and did some more testing. Apparantly a few (minor) bugs are still in this release. I fixed every bug I encountered and documented it on the DasBlog Bug Report page. I found it amazing how easy I could find the location of these bugs, without any design documentation whatsoever.

I also had a look at the template engine, since this intrigued me. Quite impressive to come up with a solution like this, and then sharing it with the community.

Come on, .NET developers blogging on Radio (Patrick and Patrick?), find yourself a .NET Framework 1.1 enabled server and switch to DasBlog. It even has a conversion tool for you. :)

As always, one wants to do something quickly when he doesn't have enough time, hoping that everything goes well... I just read that Clemens released his dasBlog engine. First, GotDotNet was not available to download the installer from there. Luckily, Clemens has another download site.

Best part of it, most of the stuff worked immediately. Except some minor issues:

• I had to configure a maximum memory usage on the Application Pool that is used by IIS6. It wasn't configured by default.
• I had to modify the site redirection for BlogX manually, because the regex doesn't work when your the virtual directory is not below the root. I made a quick fix by adding the "/blogs" in front of the RegEx.
• Cookies seemed required to log on (though I can only say this, because logon seemed not to be working without cookies allowed)

Still some things to do, like check out the new features (like post from Outlook), modify the blog roll, check out the source code, etc... But now I have to leave. I was lucky this time.

Nice work, Clemens! Thank you.