Just back from my second Brussels Girl Geek Dinner, this time at Lamot in Mechelen where we got the opportunity to have a visit to the Expo 58 exposition. It was really worth it!

But my top moment was the session on Paleo Future (what the ?). Paleo Future, according to Matt Novak who seems to have invented it, is "a look into the future that never was". Humm you might think, well actually it's a very interesting topic. It's the analysis on how people looked at the future, in the past. And mostly how they were wrong about it.

The session itself was not presented by Matt Novak, however he did actively help in putting it together with Peter Van Wijnaerde. Peter presented a session specially for the girls as he collected material treating the views people had on the future in regards to women. With that I learned that in the beginning of the 20th century they thought that women would be very powerfull, run for president, be very strong (as in big and not so girly) by the year 2000. But by the 50's the image of women in the future was back to staying at home, taking care of the kids, being a housewife. How lucky a lot has changed in the real future that is now.
Thanks Peter & Matt for the very interesting session, next time take a full hour :-)

To finish off some networking, and of course a nice goodie bag. Clo & her team always succeed in getting us nice stuff! This time we had Jacques chocolates for a fondue and some fun stuff.

See you next time.

Two weeks ago I received a cool gadget from my colleagues at LBi: a nabaztag :-)
OK, I’ll admit it: I’m a bit geeky so I really loved the gift!

It was not a smooth thing to get it working because of wireless configuration settings. According to the information on the site a wireless security setting to WPA does not work. However after loading a new firmware and changing a default address setting as I found on the forum it’s now alive!

And let me take this opportunity to wish happy holidays to all of you, and a prosperous and exciting New Year 2008.

I hope the next year will bring interesting new projects to you all.

After almost 7 years of .NET projects at LBi I’m leaving for a new challenge at Microsoft! More on that later…

I would like to take the opportunity to thank all of my colleagues at LBi in Belgium (previously D.A.D – Digital Age Design). Since the start at LBi I was able to learn a lot and evolve in my technical skills. Working on CMS projects, custom extranet applications MOSS projects :-), interactions with the creative/design department, all part my very interesting path at LBi.

Thanks to my manager Arnaud. And a special mention to the .NET team at LBi: keep up the good work and motivation! You are a great team and I’ll miss you. Here’s one to remember.

L-R: Olivier, Benjamin, Jérémy (the one from the other side of the force), Arnaud (the chef :-), Lieven, Thomas, me, Gauthier, Mathieu, Nicolas and Thomas.

Just back from a week in the north of Portugal.
Unfortunately the wheather wasn't as nice as we had hoped or was used to in Portugal. But it was a very nice time to get some new energy and get ready for the next months.

We rented a villa in the Minho region, next to the national park of Peneda & Geres. Lots of nice walks, ancient remains from the Romans and beautiful views.

So, some catching up to do on all my RSS subscriptions, more than one week without my laptop and Internet is a real break.

And the picture, that's from the holiday :-)

I decided to start blogging about what occupies me most part of the week: developing in Microsoft .NET technologies.

I'm currently implementing my first project in Microsoft Office server 2007 (Sharepoint), so my first posts will probably be about it.
Even if I call the blog All about .NET I'l probably throw in some other stuff as well.

Katrien