I recently created a Windows 8 application called “Telling Time” that allows children to learn to tell time. I created a english and Dutch version. The fun thing is that I created this app together with my son. He created the motivational sounds in the application. These are played whenever you set the correct or wrong time. He helped testing and choose the various cartoonisch charactes in the application. It was a fun and very...
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Recently I became a certified ADAM developer. ADAM is a product of ADAM Software that provides Media management. ADAM delivers intelligent Digital Asset Management (DAM) for fast, secure, easy-to-use access, sharing and distribution. This enables centralized automation to ensure data accuracy and fast time-to-market. Assets or media files are imported into ADAM using a media engine. ADAM offers out of the box a standard media engine for...
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On the bottom right of the screen you see a live Twitter stream. New tweets that match a given search term are show in real-time. The client script contacts Twitter to get these latest tweet so no server code is running. This Twitter stream is implemented using a WordPress widget. Widgets are WordPress Plugins that add visual and interactivity options and features, such as sidebar widgets for post categories, tag clouds, navigation, search, etc....
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This article describes how I developed and published Androng, a clone of the classic game Pong that runs on Android. I developed the game using Java and it supports a single and a two-player mode. Below are two in-game screenshots. Pong Pong is a game that was originally developed as a electronic version of ping pong. Atari originally created the game in 1972. The goal is to defeat your opponent by getting a higher score. In my...
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Every Architecture Design decision should be based on one or more Non-Functional requirements. Each Non-Functional requirement in its case should be based on a business need. Recently I asked myself what are the business needs for using a dependency injection (DI) framework? Which visible, tangible benefit would be reached using a DI framework? This blog post describes the arguments we used to successfully convince management. Dependency...
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