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A watch might be one of the most common types of objects, but it remains also one of the earliest pieces of human craftmanship to show an extreme level of complexity, all contained in a small amount of space. Since the late 1700s, artisan watchmakers in Switzerland and elsewhere have shown their pride and skills [...]

Version: 1.0
Author: Adrian Kosmaczewski
Date: April 5th & 6th, 2006
Tools: PowerPoint
Platforms: n/a
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5
In April 2006 I gave two conferences in Microsoft’s main tech event in Geneva, the TechDays 2006. I gave one speech about SharePoint, and another about the (then) upcoming version of C# and its LINQ extensions. Here are the slides:

A204 - [...]

I just updated the Projects subsection of this site with some .NET code that I wrote, between 2003 and 2006:

OrugaSystem: The OrugaSystem project came to my mind first as an HTML RTF converter, but later evolved into a generic transformer framework; it was created with Visual Studio .NET 2003, and it runs under the [...]

Version: 1.0
Author: Adrian Kosmaczewski
Date: February 2006
Programming Languages: C# 2.0
Tools: Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition (not tested with the Express editions!)
Platforms: Windows
Licence: Creative Commons Public Domain
I created these applications to illustrate some aspects about .NET 2.0:

adonet.zip: This application shows how to use several new features of ADO.NET 2.0: DataSet.RemotingFormat, Data providers API, and agnostic database [...]

Version: 1.0
Author: Adrian Kosmaczewski
Date: Sunday, October 19, 2003
Programming Languages: C# (.NET 1.1), XSL-FO
Tools: Visual Studio.NET 2003
Platforms: Windows
Download: orugasystem.zip
Licence: See the “Kosmaczewski Licence.txt” and “Infozone Licence.txt” files.
The OrugaSystem project came to my mind first as an HTML RTF converter. The idea came to me after reading the following article in CodeProject: “An XML based (we)blog [...]

Well the PowerPoint slides that I used during the TechDays 2006 conference have been published in the TechDays page. You can download them from this site as well:

A204 - SharePoint Workflow (zipped, 6.5 MB)
D308 - LINQ (zipped, 6.7 MB)

BTW, they are in French… and yes, the slide with Maradona on it is maybe the most [...]

Next week I will be in Belgium working with the Thales team in Brussels, building a new software solution (for a customer of the public sector that I cannot disclose here) using the following technologies:

Spring Framework for .NET
NHibernate

Personally, this seems like a rather new (Microsoft-less) way of doing a .NET application, and I like this! [...]