About
My name is Mike Plate and this is my blog. I’ve been a software developer all of my professional life. Born in 1969 I’ve seen the rise of the PC, Microsoft and Windows in which environment I’ve spent most of my time during the years. I’ve developed applications since the MS-DOS days but nowadays I feel that my home is in Microsoft.NET and C#.
Having a home doesn’t mean that I don’t like to travel, and therefore I’m interested in other technologies outside the Microsoft world. At the moment this means a little php and a little more of Java and the Android platform for mobile phones.
But what I do best, and have the most experience with, is ASP.NET, JavaScript, MSSQL and building web solutions on those technologies.
This blog will serve the following purposes:
- Share what I know and find with the community and anyone interested
- Build a resume of what I do and know for future customers and/or employers
- Remember things I’ve done or found out, for my own sake (bad memory)
At the moment I work as a freelance developer here in Sweden.
3 Responses to About
Andreas Borutta
April 13th, 2010 at 12:09
Hi Mike,
I read your article about connecting Skydrive via WebDav. Thanks for it.
You mentioned “Of course the maximum size of a single file is still enforced”.
My question:
There is a commercial tool SDExplorer which offers the possibility to use files without a maximum size:
http://www.cloudstorageexplorer.com/products.php
Do you know any way to connect skydrive without this tool but with the possibility to use it with big files?
Regards from Berlin, Andreas
admin
April 21st, 2010 at 18:11
@Andreas Borutta: Nice to hear from Berlin! I enjoyed the city very much during TechEd Europe 2009. I would guess that any applications that get around this limitation does it by cutting up larger files into pieces. I would assume that if you use such an application and look at the directory in the Microsoft web interface for SkyDrive, they would not show up as a single file but rather multiple files.
Phil Chappel
June 23rd, 2010 at 22:42
Mike,
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