IT articles

On this page you will find an overview of all articles that I have written myself. The more recent articles deal with software development with .NET (C#, Visual Studio, VSTS, Azure, LINQ, Entity Framework, Web services, WPF, Silverlight, ...) in particular. The older articles were often written for the purposes of courses or demonstrations at my computerclub and these articles are mostly about Delphi, PHP, databases, Javascript, Windows, Office, Multimedia applications, Atari, ...

Use the left panel to filter the more than 115 articles by category. These articles can be used freely for personal use. Placing the full articles on other websites is not allowed without the permission of the author.

20 years a personal website

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IT

A brief history of my personal website over the past 20 years. In 1997 I developed my first website and in the meantime it is a large collection of my own applications, technical articles written by myself and my many travel and nature photos.

History of computerclub Volwassenen, Jeugd en Informatica vzw

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IT

Atari

A brief history of computer club Volwassenen, Jeugd en Informatica (VJI) in Lommel. Since its foundation in 1990 and until 2005, thousands of people have learned about computers and all their possibilities in this computerclub. Many volunteers have been helpful for years to give lessons and demonstrations about software and hardware, to help people with computer issues or just chat about software, programming, photo editing, games, the internet, ....

RSS - What is it and how to use it ?

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IT

Webdevelopment

An article about RSS. What is it? How can you read RSS-feeds? And how can you create XML RSS files in PHP, Delphi or .NET? This small article tries to give an overview.

History of OOP

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IT

This article, which is written in Dutch, gives an overview of the history of OOP (Object Oriented Programming). The first principles were designed in the sixties. After the language Simula, other languages like Smalltalk, ADA, Prolog, C++, Object Pascal, Java and C# followed.

What is UML ?

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IT

The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is one of the most used methodologies to describe a process which can be understood by analysts, developers and clients. This document, which is written in Dutch, gives an overview of UML and shows the different graphical elements which correspond to principles from object oriented programming (OOP).

How to use e-mails and internet safely

Dutch

IT

This article, which is written in Dutch, explains some a few dangers on the internet and describes how you can prevent your PC from being infected with viruses, worms, hoaxes, ...

History of the computer

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IT

This document, which is written in Dutch, gives an overview of the history of the computer. Everything started long ago with mechanical calculators and only in the forties the first 'computers' were developed. Since the '80s PC's also found their way to the consumer.