Got my picture drawn by Reverentgeek
At the MVP summit currently and there’s a talented person which takes your picture and uses his iPad pro and pencil to make a nice looking drawing out of it....
At the MVP summit currently and there’s a talented person which takes your picture and uses his iPad pro and pencil to make a nice looking drawing out of it....
A couple of weeks ago I was playing around with NServicebus on localhost. The nice thing about it is that it’ll make use of files in different subfolders if ...
Today I was setting up a new project but was making use of Entity Framework Core. Seems I found an interesting flag -Idempotent to generate SQL statements fr...
I noticed that Microsoft hands out a free ebook about AI and chatbots. It’s an easy read of about 50 pages. The table of contents is as follows: Intro...
The C# team brings out new features in small releases like C# 7.1, 7.2 or 7.3 for example. Now you might notice that when you create a new project that not a...
I started a new job at a new client recently and of course I had to install a new laptop provided by the client. Installing Visual Studio (2017) basically a...
Recently I was in a discussion about (Azure) DevOps, bugs and their severity. Besides being an interesting discussion we came up with the following list: ...
Even though the documentation of Microsoft bot builder version 4 is really good I noticed I couldn’t find a decent explanation on how to replace the default ...
Yesterday I went talking about my experiences with chatbots I gained during the last years working at clients and in a second part of the talk how to create ...
Besides my usual day to day work including Azure, C#, ASP.NET Core, (chat)bots, Cognitive Services, … I’m currently becoming more and more interested in Data...
Last week I took a day out of my holiday to help out a colleague. I basically already left the client but didn’t want to leave my follow up in the cold. The...
Yesterday I went to Romania for the first time ever in my life. Reason: I went speaking at the CODECAMP conference Bucharest edition (apparently the first on...
I got reawarded as an MVP for my continued volunteering work in the Azure space. Today was a day that all MVP’s in the world got to know if they were renewed...
Recently I was involved in improving the performance and stability of a new, important, application at a client. The usage of Kendo MVC Grid was a great addi...
Last Saturday was not only beautiful weather in Belgium, actually it was really great weather, but it was also Global Azure Bootcamp. Me and Tom Kerkhove ran...
Today I was presenting in Poland. More specifically in Warsaw at the Microsoft building for Azure Day Poland. It was a well organized event with a great atmo...
Last week I was visiting the USA for the annual MVP summit. I must say, one of the best editions I attended in year. First of all, it’s always great to see s...
When I started my professional career in the magical .NET world on July 1st 2002, I joined the ASP.NET forums as a member. In the beginning lurking for infor...
Normally I was only going to help out as a proctor during a workshop at Tech Summit. However on Tuesday evening I got a call from Microsoft corp in Redmond i...
Today I took the plane to Frankfurt, Germany to talk at Basta spring 2018 about Serverless on Azure. Basically the talk was about the big 3: Azure Functions...
Visual Studio 2017 is a great tool and I spend quite a lot of my professional days in it. On its own it’s already a great editor but the power is in extensio...
I’m curently busy at a large project in the insurance sector. The original architecture implemented the onion architecture and took from the database a lot o...
Recently I presented at Iglooconf in Finland. Besides a very well organized conference and 100 attendees we also had around 500 online spectators who followe...
For years I’ve been using @KvdM for most things, Twitter, Github, … Due to some 2 factor authentication problems and as Github wasn’t really providing the ne...
Due to the Christmas season and companies know that people already bought a lot of stuff for their loved ones they sometimes lower prices. Manning also does ...
A couple of weeks ago I was going through my preparations and demos about the Microsoft Bot Framework to talk at SharePoint Saturday in Lisbon. As I didn’t u...
Today I got a new laptop at my current client and unlike former PC’s it now comes with Windows 10 installed. Note that this is a large enterprise hence they’...
On Saturday November 25th 2017 me and my buddies from azug organized our annual CloudBrew event at the Lamot venue in pictoresque Mechelen city. The weather ...
A year ago I was at the MVP summit gathering with a bunch of international people which I can call friends and likeminded people. Not only a great trip to fi...
Last Thursday I was invited to come to the free local conference uNite at Ordina. It was an interesting agenda (see below) and because I used to work there f...
Cloud computing has been around for quite some years now and is gaining more and more traction. More and more enterprises are also jumping on the bandwagon a...
In October I gave a presentation about Visual Studio Code during Microsoft Tech Days NL 2017. Well, that session got recorded and is now available on Youtube...
Since around 2006 I’ve been using dasBlog as my main engine to keep my posts up and running. Since then a lot has changed in the world and I noticed that it ...
I’m happy and honored to announce I got awarded as an Azure MVP for the coming year. Since 2007 I made it as an ASP.NET MVP until last year where I became a...
If you would like to keep up date with Microsoft Azure and can spare some hours watching videos this might be something for you: Azure Skills Training Kris.
A couple of weeks Visual Studio 2017 was released to the public. If you want to see the announcements and keynotes be sure to navigate to https://channel9.ms...