Oliver’s Place

Recently I have abandoned my plans of switching to MacOSX as my primary Operating System after using the the OS for four months straight without touching Windows. Don’t get me wrong. I enjoyed the ride – a lot! But I also had plenty of reasons for going back to Windows (7). First of all I [...]

This is one of the very rare occasions where Microsoft actually did something cool. A couple days ago I needed to test one of my web apps with Internet Explorer 8 and just for giggles with IE6 – although we’ve dropped support for that dinosaur a while ago. Remembering my previous experience with IE8 and [...]

Sometimes I can’t help but getting nostalgic when I think about the old days when Microsoft Visual Studio was the benchmark for Integrated Development Environments. Back then when I used Visual C++ 2.0 the first time, I immediately fell in love with it. The IDE ran under Windows NT (I refused to use Windows 3.1 [...]