Alain Hufkens
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You might have noticed that since I started my blog in 2008, I covered a lot of technical topics. Before this blog started I was already working as a programmer building application in an Enterprise context. This has been a very interesting journey for me and I am quite [...]
It’s been a while since I’ve posted something on this blog. As I am mostly active on Twitter and my new Tumblr blog with inspirational stuff. But what have I been doing lately?
Silverlight 4
I worked part time on a Silverlight 4 / RIA Services project for a big company [...]
This year’s Techdays came at the right time. I am currently actively working on a project built with Silverlight and WCF RIA Services. So some of the sessions should be right up my alley. Overall it was a pretty good conference. The content was a lot more actual then last year, which meant [...]
This post is a follow-up on my previous post concerning the Model-View-ViewModel Pattern in Silverlight. Laurent Bugnion (@LBugnion) talks about his MVVM Light Toolkit and explains the Pattern in his session at MIX10.
If you want to start implementing the Pattern check out the the MVVM Light Framework on
I am currently working on a large Silverlight application. It’s a challenging project on architecture and UI implementation. With the announcements at Mix 2010, it’s definitely a good time to be a Silverlight Developer. The platform has taken a big step forwards in version 3, but check out the long list of new features in Silverlight [...]
Last year I have been working a lot on Flex applications, and because of this I usually take my experience from Flex development and apply it to Silverlight. One example is the PureMVC framework that we use at Nascom for most RIA applications we build. The framework also has ports towards other technologies [...]
Today at the Microsoft Professional Developer conference, Scott Guthrie announced the availability of Silverlight 4 Beta. Yes it’s still a beta but the feature list is quite impressive:
Webcam and Microphone access. Mousewheel and Right-click support. HTML Hosting in WebBrowser (not really sure if this is good or bad, cause it brings an [...]
After installing Visual Studio 2010 beta 1 I decided to play around with Silverlight 3 and the new IDE. What better example to try out than connecting a Silverlight client to the Basecamp REST API. But again like the Twitter API, the Basecamp API uses Basic Authentication (see my previous post:
And now for something completely different!
After installing Microsoft Windows 7 RC on my Macbook in Boot Camp I decided to give the new Visual Studio 2010 beta 1 a try. If you want to try it out yourself checkout this blog post with various links to download pages. The installation of Windows [...]
Today was the day of the MIX conference by Microsoft in Las Vegas. After the Techdays last week I was a bit disappointed in the Silverlight presentations. But on MIX they announced a lot of new features that will end up in the next version of Silverlight. I have [...]
Lifestream
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Checking out CocoaPods - an Objective-C library manager > https://t.co/xdLU5OgO— February 1st via Twitter
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Finally found some time to dive into iOS5 Storyboarding.— February 1st via Twitter
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RT @robbedoes: Fun to watch: an interview w/ the sound designer of Angry Birds: http://t.co/lDARIGbB— February 1st via Twitter
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@wuotr Also, check this out: Flood Fill > http://t.co/SpweLK0N ;)— January 30th via Twitter
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Love it! Timesaver++ CocosBuilder, a tool for graphically laying out sprites, layers and scenes for @cocos2d > http://t.co/Jrb8233D— January 30th via Twitter
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RT @rwenderlich: Awesome list of Cocos2D source code projects, extensions and code from @iuridium: http://t.co/ovwLYhCv— January 29th via Twitter
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Moo! @ Kinderboerderij kiewit http://t.co/tYBlLsvH— January 29th via Twitter
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I've been doing my epic chores and just leveled-up. I'm a Level 8 Well-groomed Clansman now! #EpicWinApp— January 27th via Twitter
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