Michiels blog

Creating XML Schemas with Eclipse

admin — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:30:44 +0000

Eclipse has support for XML Schema so you can develop and test your own schemas for free! If you are new to XML Schema, the XML Schema tutorial from www.w3schools.com is a good starter to enter the world of XML Schema. Make sure you installed the necessary Web Tools Platform plug-ins so you have the [...]

Sorting your C# objects with LINQ

admin — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:33:58 +0000

Suppose you create a Box class with some properties. class Box { public string Name { get; set; } public string Color { get; set; } public string Label { get; set; } public DateTime CreatedAt { get; set; } public [...]

Downsample your images in batch with ImageMagick

admin — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 13:01:47 +0000

Have you ever send some pictures to your friends by email or posted them somewhere on the web? I guess you did! If these images are of high resolution they will take a lot of bandwidth. So normally it’s preferable to first downsample those images. ImageMagick is a very handy commandline tool to do the [...]

C# value type, reference type, pass by value, pass by reference

admin — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 10:27:15 +0000

I experienced that the terms value type, reference type, pass by value, pass by reference are sometimes confusing for the beginning C# programmer (I include myself to this category). Therefore I will try to explain this as clearly as possible with some small examples. Value type versus reference type A typical example of a value [...]

Learning to drum

admin — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 20:28:49 +0000

Intro It has been a while that I posted on my blog but my motto is “less is more” and in between I moved this site to another host. 500 MB disk space, 2 GB data traffic and 5 MySQL databases for 0,99 euro/month! Drumming is fun For all of you who are eager to [...]

Uptranslate and context translate with OmniMark

admin — Sun, 08 May 2011 20:15:09 +0000

This post will explain some of the unique conversion features of OmniMark, which is uptranslate and context translate (See the conversion scheme to have an overview of the different types of conversion). An uptranslate makes it possible to create XML (or SGML) starting from structured data. And this structured data doesn’t have to be XML. [...]

Video tutorials learning Joomla

admin — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 22:27:57 +0000

Joomla video tutorials.

Unicode is not UTF-8

admin — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 13:35:51 +0000

Sometimes I experience that Unicode and UTF-8 are mentioned as if it is the same thing. Although there is a relationship they are not the same.

This post explains shortly this relationship and gives you some references if you are interested in this material (and every programmer should!).

Solving the streaming paradigm with OmniMark referents

admin — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 20:01:00 +0000

This post handles about OmniMark referents. Referents are the solution to the problem of outputting a value before knowing the value in a streaming model.

Passed LPIC-1 exam 101

admin — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 18:11:32 +0000

Passed my LPIC-1 exam 101.