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From the monthly archives: February 2009

Windows bug in week numbers

By Kenneth van Rumste On February 27, 2009 · 1 Comment

Today is a joyful day as we found a bug in the Windows Outlook Calendar.
We are currently working with week numbers and wanted to know what the correct standard was for this subject, so we searched for the ISO Standard and we found this explanation:

The ISO week-numbering year starts at the first [...]

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why emails get blocked by spam filters

By Kenneth van Rumste On February 6, 2009 · Leave a Comment

How is it possible that my emails are blocked by spam filters?

I got this question from a few friends and a client and this are the things you can do:

Check your newsletter/email on a spam checker tool
Programmers heaven spamchecker
Lyris contentchecker

The problem for the client [...]

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layout inspiration

By Kenneth van Rumste On February 5, 2009 · Leave a Comment

A lot of programmers seem to hate the layout part of the job. Well if you work in a big company you probably won’t do the two jobs, but in some cases, or when you work in a small company (ex 1-5 employees) you have to do them both (layout and programming). And for those [...]

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Green programming – contribution to the environment

By Kenneth van Rumste On February 4, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Everybody seems to be talking about a green and environment-friendly job. Well I wondered how we, as IT guys can contribute to this phenomenon and came up with these answers (after a bit of research).
In our workspace we can do these things:

Write correct and OO code, to save seconds of processing time

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