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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]