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The Vietnam refugees

By Kris | Published: January 24, 2012

Yesterday I met a man who had a very intriguing story that I would like to share. He explained me how he escaped Vietnam. The story starts in 1975, the end of the Vietnam war when Saigon was captured. The north was getting more and more influence. People in the south now had to deal [...]

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Trick Eye Art

By Kris | Published: January 23, 2012

During my stint in Vietnam (still here btw), I visited a very interesting exhibition in Ho Chi Minh City. This exhibition consisted of tens of big-sized 3D paintings. Paintings that reveal another dimension in fact, as you can be part of the scenery too and bring it alive. You just need to be able to [...]

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My Vietnamese Lunar New Year

By Kris | Published: January 22, 2012

Today it’s the Vietnamese old year and tomorrow the Lunar New Year, Tết or Tết Nguyên Đán starts. I had heard about this “lunar” New Year before, but was not really much aware about what it really involves. Dragons and Gods right and a different calendar or something? Like the Chinese thing… Not so much and [...]

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In Kuala Lumpur

By Kris | Published: January 15, 2012
Astonishing Kuala Lumpur view seen from the TV tower. You can see that its a green city too.

On my way to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam my flight was in transit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. As a matter of fact, quite some flights to South-East Asia actually come through the Kuala Lumpur International airport (or Bangkok).  And as I had more than 10 hours to spend there, I thought of making optimal [...]

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How the wind blows

By Kris | Published: December 30, 2011

You never know how the wind blows. And so I am going to Vietnam in early 2012. The first time in Asia and the South-East for some three weeks! My tickets are booked and visa is dispensed. My flight will go from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. And from Kualu Lumpur to Ho Chi Minh City. [...]

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Some ramblings on Facebook’s Timeline

By Kris | Published: December 29, 2011

I had already written about the concept of a digital timeline (Dutch) before. But I actually didn’t anticipate that a social networking site was going to use it at its core (although I heard it had been done before). So I was really surprised and excited that Facebook’s new release incorporated this timeline concept. Your [...]

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My year in pictures

By Kris | Published: December 26, 2011
Tilburg

We are at the end of 2011 that I am writing this. Time to look back. In short: it’s been a very eventful, unusual and adventurous year to me. What a hell of a ride! First of all, this is the first year that I am no longer living a student life. I ended my [...]

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Lookup and Author fields broken

By Kris | Published: December 23, 2011

In SharePoint 2007, querying a List is fairly straightforward. Occasionally however you might run into some problems with processing and manipulating the retrieved Lookup and Author contents though. It could be for instance that a NullException or Index (zero based) must be greater than or equal to zero and less than the size of the [...]

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A solution to Cannot Import this Web Part with missing SharePointPermission

By Kris | Published: December 12, 2011

After spending several hours of debugging, I finally found out what was causing SharePoint 2007 not being able to import my custom Web Part. Following error message was shown: Request for the permission of type ‘Microsoft.SharePoint.Security.SharePointPermission, Microsoft.SharePoint.Security, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c’ failed. There are a few ways to remediate this SharePoint error. First thing is related [...]

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You can’t handcuff the truth (ii)

By Kris | Published: December 2, 2011

Another day, another TV show that inspired me. Recently, in Reyers Laat, a late night show on Belgian television Maurice de Hond was invited. Never heard of this man, but apparently this Dutch guy is famous for his sharp political analysises. Anyway, the main topic was Belgium still without a government after a whopping 500 [...]

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