Archive for the ‘Programming’ Category

After many months of hard work I today finally launched suriname360 - a website that features high resolution 360 degrees panoramas and interactive virtual tours of places in Suriname. I’ve had the idea for this website for a few years now but due to other priorities it wasn’t until March of this year that I could start working on this project. And I … Continue reading

Today I launched my new website after spending almost 3.5 months working on it in my spare time. The previous site was launched in 2007, so a refresh was necessary. Along with some updated information about the services that I offer I have also updated all my portfolios and there’s a lot of new work to see. I’ve also finally … Continue reading

My new website has just been launched at www.kareldonk.com. Feel free to take a look. It contains the latest information about the services I have to offer as well as updated portfolios. I’ve been working on the site in my spare time for about 2 months now, and it was about time I could finally have my own work-related website … Continue reading

Have you ever used a (software) product that just felt and/or looked like it wasn’t finished? That had kindof an unpolished feel to it, rough around the edges and minor or even major issues? One that you knew had great potential because you enjoyed using some of its features and could have been a big winner if not for those … Continue reading

Let me just jump right in and say that I was absolutely delighted to find out that Microsoft would keep the Express editions of the Visual Studio tools free. I had written about this a year ago, and although I was way too early with that, it is good to see Microsoft now really doing it. When they launched Visual … Continue reading

I recently was unfortunate enough to have installed Visual Studio 2005 on one of my computers and attempt to use it for my primary development work. As soon as I installed it and opened one of my existing projects, it automatically deleted all project files. Luckily I had a backup which I could quickly restore and try again. It deleted … Continue reading

I’ve uploaded one of my old projects that I worked on about 10 years ago. It’s a fighting game based on ASCII characters. You can read more about it here.

With the lack of a clear roadmap for MFC it hasn’t been very clear for me and a lot of developers what the future of MFC will look like. For example, when I examine the statistics from my website, I see that a lot of people find my website by entering strings like “Longhorn and MFC” and “MFC not developed … Continue reading