Yesterday, I attended ArrrrCamp in Gent together with my former colleague Peter Eysermans. This was my very first Ruby conference although I would argue that the focus was more on web development in general. There were a wide range of talks, not only about Ruby and Ruby on Rails, but also on client-side development, JavaScript […]
Read MoreI’m very thrilled to announce that I’ll be joining QFrame starting from February next year. I’ll be working there as a .NET architect/consultant focused on exploring technologies, guiding design and architecture, coaching and spending a lot of time diving into code. In short, I got hired for just being myself ;-). I’m very much looking […]
Read MoreA while ago, my good friend Michel Grootjans tweeted the following: Are developers (a) laborers or (b) professionals? If (a) don’t expect them to think. If (b) don’t expect them to execute without question. Personally, these few sentences struck a nerve or two. Read it a couple of times and think about this statement for a […]
Read MoreHave you ever tried to use the WPF RichTextBox? If you did try to use it, did you pull your hair out trying to figure out how to accomplish the simplest of tasks? Don?t panic, your not the only one. I often get asked tons of questions on how to use the WPF RichTextBox. Lets […]
Read MoreIf you haven?t noticed by now, I have been somewhat quiet in the community lately, but there are a few good reasons for that.? The first reason is that I have been working on my Extended WPF Toolkit project on CodePlex.? I also recently had a new baby girl, born just 4 months ago and […]
Read MoreFunctions are a very important concept in most programming languages, but they are even more important in JavaScript. When you read this as a C# or VB developer you probably won’t see this as a big deal. But there are some essential things you can do with functions that you should be aware of when […]
Read MoreAfter having listened to the recording of a speech by Daniel Pink, I quickly decided to purchase the audio version of A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future. In this book, the author first starts to describe how our brains work from a high-level point of view. The human brain is divided […]
Read MoreIn a previous post I elaborated on the problem of magic strings in OData service queries, and gave a quick (but lacking in depth) statically typed helper solution. A commenter mynkow left a note stating that my solution would not work with nested objects. I initially replied asking if he could give an example (as […]
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