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Great stuff for historicians...
- 27-06-2011: Created many question classes that are demonstrated in the tool TestQuestion, which will serve as a new Hometrainer version its starting point
- 26-06-2011: Created a web version of the tool called TestFunctionParser, which demonstrates how to work with Warp's function parser
- 16-06-2011: Wrote something slick: the web tool TestGroupWidget, which demonstrates my smooth-lookin' widget to display groups
- 01-06-2011: I have been working on a new project called GTST: a complex web application for online game theory experiments
- 01-05-2011: Created a new tool called Visual ABC for working with ABC music notation
- 01-05-2011: For the month of April 2011, this webpage had +1100 visitors per day on average! This is 100x as much as in January 2007, its first month
- 24-04-2011: Wrote a new song Vrouwen Van Je Dromen ('Women Of Your Dreams')!
- 10-04-2011: Simulated my mystery machine with the tool SimMysteryMachine
- 22-03-2011: Made a web-version of the tool TestEncranger
- 19-02-2011: 1590 C++ pages, see the C++ glossary!
- 15-01-2011: Added much C++0x content. Check it out!
- 13-01-2011: Cleaned up my music section: all pages are now valid XHTML
- 10-01-2011: Released the web-only game ConnectThree. It can be played at my interactive website
- 07-01-2011: Improved my dynamic website! Take a look at my interactive website or the source of my interactive website
- 07-01-2011: Wrote another article: Thinking Wt 4: polishing a TicTacToe game
- 07-01-2011: Wrote another article: Thinking Wt 3: creating a TicTacToe game
- 06-01-2011: Wrote another article: Thinking Wt 2: creating a TicTacToe widget
- 05-01-2011: Wrote two new articles: Thinking Wt 1: general and From Qt signal to Boost signal
- 23-11-2010: Ported the tool RandomCode the Ubuntu with both a command-line and GUI user interface
- 21-12-2010: Removed useless MS Word markup from my older webpages. These once will be restyled.
- 19-12-2010: Created a new class, ProFile to parse a Qt project file (.pro). Due to this, ndsmake was improved.
- 20-11-2010: Released the breathtaking game TicTacToe, for playing with your loved one(s) on a rainy night...
- 19-11-2010: Discovered to use the Wt library, to create dynamic websites. Good stuff!
- 13-11-2010: Ported the legendary game Zork to a Qt Creator project.
- 13-11-2010: Due to moving to Groningen, up to this day I had been offline for a month...
- 10-11-2010: Wrote a new song called 'Voor De Klas'.
- 13-10-2010: lauched the tool ndsmake for NDS development from Qt Creator under Ubuntu.
- 01-10-2010: created the 1250th C++ page!
- 01-10-2010: September closed with +600 visitors per day on average!
- 26-09-2010: after installing Ubuntu One, I kept wondering what it was doing. Check out my new tool UbuntuOneWatcher if you do so as well.
- 24-09-2010: what would you do with a TicTacToe class and TicTacToeWidget? Well, you write a game called TicTacToe, the 'Hello World' program of game programmers!
- 22-09-2010: released the game Pylos (also known as 'Pyraos'). Have fun playing!
- 01-09-2010: the month August closed with +500 visitors per day on average!
- 15-08-2010: improved the game Boenken with a menu. Blimey!
- 14-08-2010: ported the game Boenken to Qt Creator, for cross-platform fun.
- 14-08-2010: PerfectElasticCollision is a tool to investigate perfect elastic collisions. The tool everyone is waiting for!
- 06-08-2010: developed the tool called RegexTester to experiment with regular expressions, as well as to demonstrate C++ programmers how to use the Boost.Regex library. I used Qt Creator for its GUI.
- 05-08-2010: created the 1000th C++ page!
- 31-07-2010: redeveloped one of my favorite games called Maziak in Qt Creator to make it cross-platform!
- 25-07-2010: now that I am starting to understand Qt, I have added another ten examples, resulting in eightteen examples to be found at the page about Qt.
- 23-07-2010: after toying with the GAlib, MathGL and Qwt libraries, it was time to remake BeerWanter. BeerWanter is one my simplest, yet fun games, which since today in cross-platform. Enjoy clicking the beer!
- 22-07-2010: finally succeeded in networking using Asio. And now I know, and show, how to create a chat program on the Asio page.
- 19-07-2010: I got 2D graphics in Qt to work satisfactory. Eight examples can be found at the page about Qt.
- 18-07-2010: I have been experimenting with the SDL C++ cross-platform multimedia library. Five examples can be found at the page about the SDL.
- 15-07-2010: Started a stagecraft section
- 04-07-2010: Improved my Levend Cluedo page and put all scripts online. Enjoy!
- 13-06-2010: Adopted ABC music notation for generating sheet music and wrote down the sheet music of some songs (Come Home Darling for example)
- 30-05-2010: Released a new tool: PreDickAdvocaTor, to predict the 2010 soccer world championship scores
- 30-05-2010: Improved the source code of my web pages. Now the biggest webpage (except for the recent changes archive with 106 KB) has only 86 KB!
- 13-05-2010: Added two hit counters on my website, on the bottom of this and the C++ page. Let's see if I can get them to work...
- 06-05-2010: Due to many recent changes, the number of C++ pages exceeds 700!
- 17-04-2010: Finished project F&F4M ('Fast and fresh for most') in which I improved the page source of the 20 most visited and most requested pages. See the recent changes.
- 21-03-2010: Earned my first W3C XHTML 1.0 validations! You can view the validations at the bottom of checked pages.
- 13-03-2010: Made the switch from Windows to Ubuntu. Because I previously edited my homepage in MS Word (now in pure HTML), you might notice some changes in appearance.
- 16-02-2010: Restyled the graphics of Maziak to resemble the original Maziacs better. IMHO it looks great!
- 13-02-2010: Released multiple tools: CoutChildWindows,TestFunctionParser, FunctionPlotter, GaborFilter and SurfacePlotter.
- 31-01-2010: Released 'HaaifsKiller, an anti-Hyves tool for system administrators.
- 28-01-2010: Added CreateDoc to the Hometrainer suite and added autosave during tests. This makes Hometrainer to get to version 1.7
- 03-01-2010: Due to many recent changes, the number of C++ pages exceeds 500!
- 01-01-2010: Programmed version 2.0 of PokeVolley. It was one of my first C++ games programmed. Back then I did not bother about menu and about screens. But when going through it, I also made the game run smoother. Enjoy!
- 01-01-2010: Programmed version 4.0 of K3-Op-Een-Rij. Due to the band its new formation, I had do an update on the graphics. It looks slicker then ever!
- 31-12-2009: Improved BarbaImage: add noise, bleach or darken your images from now on!
- 30-12-2009: Added the most requested pages for December. See the recent changes.
- 29-12-2009: Added a new exercise: Exercise #9: No for-loops.
- 03-11-2009: Made even more improvements in Hometrainer to get to version 1.6
- 29-10-2009: Made some improvements in Hometrainer to get to version 1.5
- 29-10-2009: Put the Refrigerator Puzzle Solver online, a tool to solve a puzzle on my refrigerator. I had a bet with my girlfriend that I would solve the puzzle quicker than her by writing a program instead of her trying by hand. I won
- 28-10-2009: Put the Logistic Growth Simulator online, showing the growth of a logistically growing population. A simple theoreticalbiology visualization tool
- 28-10-2009: Made more improvements on the Projects page
- 11-10-2009: Made major improvements on the Projects page
- 23-09-2009: Wrote the first halve of a manual for Hometrainer. Download it at the Hometrainer page
- 20-09-2009: Did a small bug-fix in Hometrainer to get to version 1.4
- 29-08-2009: Launched Hometrainer version 1.3: in this update, the test questions can be analyzed, so one can see which questions were easiest or hardest for the students
- 25-08-2009: Created the tool called Leary Circumplex. The Leary circumplex (or interpersonal circumplex or Leary circle) is an instrument for teachers to measure their teacher type. With Leary Circumplex, you can draw a Leary circumplex: which is probably better then drawing it by hand!
- 23-08-2009: Launched Hometrainer version 1.2: now the program can be used to create and score tests.
- 22-08-2009: Programmed Encranger ('ENCryption by RAndom Number GEneratoR') a tool to encrypt and de-encrypt text messages. I really like my encryption algorithm, both its simplicity in coding and its difficulty in reading the coded text)!
- 09-05-2009: Launched Hometrainer version 1.1 in which I you have more options at your disposal. Now you can create open question and you can also load images next to your questions.
- 07-05-2009: Launched SimStagecraft version 1.1 in which I added some more equipment like amplifiers, passive speakers and a lighting table with a cross-fader.
- 02-05-2009: Added a new tool called GrayCoder. You can convert decimal integer values to their Gray code and vice versa.
- 01-05-2009: Added a new tool called DotMatrix. You can convert text characters to the dot-matrix font (as can be found on, for example, your microwave).
- 01-05-2009: April closes with 239 visits per day on average!
- 28-01-2009: Added a new tool called SecretMessage. You can add or extract secret messages to/from a 24-bitmap.
- 27-01-2009: I'm back on the Internet! Updates will follow soon!
- 06-07-2008: Wrote a new great Game called 'SearchAndDestroyChess'. It's a special kind of chess with a 'fog of war'. Go to my Games page
- 16-06-2008: The number of C++ pages exceeds 400! Go to my C++ page
- 09-06-2008: Added exercises to my C++ section, inspired by Herb Sutter's 'Guru Of The Week' pages. Go to my C++ page
- 12-05-2008: Improved my Teaching section by also providing teaching material. Go to my teaching page
- 06-05-2008: Improved my Dutch C++ course guide for the following course I give at the Stadswerkplaats. Download it for free at my Courses page. Go to my courses page
- 04-05-2008: The number of C++ pages exceeds 350! Go to my C++ page
- 04-05-2008: Wrote a new eductational tool called SimImmuneReponse. Who did not ever want to be in charge of an immune response? SimImmuneReponse can be viewed and downloaded at my 'Tools' page. Go to my tools page
- 01-05-2008: The number of hits of my page exceeds 1000 per day for the first time!
- 14-04-2008: The number of C++ pages exceeds 300! Go to my C++ page.
- 31-03-2008: Started my own C++ page. Go to my C++ page.
- 29-03-2008: Created a new simulation called 'SimBrainiac' (having nothing to do with the TV program Brainiac). It's about students interacting... More info can be found at the SimBrainiac page. It's under the 'Tools' section of my C++ Code Snippets page. Go to my Code Snippets C++ page.
- 29-03-2008: Some of my fans are uniting themselves on the web. To help other fans find them, I've added some links to my fansites. Go to my links page.
- 27-01-2008: Updated my Music page: now it is possible to download each of my CD's in one download! Also, I've put the cover art online. Go to my music page.
- 05-01-2008: Programmed a tool called 'The Pixelator'. It 'pixelates' images, or 'it generalizes color values over a certain range'. It can be found under the 'Tools' section of my 'C++ Code Snippets' page. Go to my Code Snippets C++ page.
- 02-01-2008: I've started working on a C++ port of 'Tron'. The classic version, called 'Classic Tron' has been finished and can be viewed and downloaded at the 'Games' page. Click here to go to my 'Games' page.
- 30-12-2007: Some people missed the old-school version of Boenken as much as I did. So today, I've programmed 'Boenken 2' which has some additional options: old-school graphics, the old-school two-button controls and the possibility of setting the friction. 'Boenken 2' can be found on my 'Games' page. Click here to go to my 'Games' page.
- 19-12-2007: I had to get it out of my head, so I programmed a Rubik's Clock Simulator. I kept it simple, so when bored you might want to check it out at my 'Games' page. Click here to go to my 'Games' page.
- 16-12-2007: Today, I've programmed the simulation 'SoaSim'. It shows the spread of a sexually transmitted disease in interacting individuals. Also, it is just plain fun to see the individuals 'chat'. See the 'Tools' section of my Code Snippets C++ page. Go to my Code Snippets C++ page.
- 13-12-2007: Added a Levend Cluedo page! Click here to go to my 'Levend Cluedo' page.
- 03-12-2007: Finished the new game 'Space Harry'! Dedicated to Harry, one of my favorite bartenders. Too bad his pub has been closed. Nevertheless, check it out at my 'Games' page. Click here to go to my 'Games' page.
- 28-11-2007: Improved my 'Games' section. Now you can see the game I'm working on. Click here to go to my 'Games' page.
- 28-11-2007: Added a page about my teaching. It contains funny answers of my secondary school students, as well as their poems. Click here to go to my 'Teaching' page.
- 21-11-2007: New performance: at Sunday, the ninth of December, at 15:00, I'll be performing at the Open Podium of the Prinsentheater in Groningen. See you there!
- 21-11-2007: Added a Discography and a Table Of Content to my Music section. Blimey, looks like I've written forty-eight songs! See Music.
- 30-10-2007: Put the executable of the tool 'BarbaImage' online. 'BarbaImage' is a tool to perform graphical operations on images. After every operation (for example: threshold filtering, edge detection, histogram equalization) it creates a new window, so you never loose your intermediate steps. I plan to put the source online, after I've finished my own graphical library (called Seaull). Then, I'll licence it under GPL 3.0. Check out the 'Tools' section of Code Snippets C++ to see 'BarbaImage'.
- 23-10-2007: Finished the great tool called 'Hometrainer'. It helps one to practice nouns, verbs and/or definitions. It saves me a lot of time not having to create trainers for everything I want to train myself. Check out the 'Tools' section of Code Snippets C++. Licenced under GPL 3.0. Who said one cannot become a Homo Universalis anymore?
- 22-10-2007: Yesterday, I've improved the code of 'Maziak' (Go to the Games page to see 'Maziak'), so one can choose a 999x999 sized maze. So I've also updated the 'Maze' section of Code Snippets C++. By the way, finishing a 999x999 sized maze, with the path to the exit known, took me about ten minutes in 'Maziak'. Still, I don't know if I was lucky...
- 20-10-2007: Let's see if I can get myself doing something else then programming after having finished my new game 'Maziak'. A clone of the MSX classic! I love it, so I put it online. Go to the Games page to see 'Maziak'. Licenced under GPL 3.0, so you can also view my beautifull source code.
- 19-10-2007: Having even more time left on this free day, I've put some more tools on my page: 'Color Number Determinator' to see a color from an RGB value and 'Random Code', a tool to generate random C++ code. So check out the 'Tools' section of Code Snippets C++! And if in doubt, check the screenshots. All my tools are licenced under GPL 3.0.
- 19-10-2007: Damn holiday! Today, I've finally put my maze generation algorithm on this site, as well as a tool to check the algorithm visually. The algorithm 'CreateMaze' can be found under the 'Mathematics' section of Code Snippets C++. The tool 'MazeCreator' (nifty naming, eh?) can be found under the 'Tools' section of Code Snippets C++. The tool is licenced under GPL 3.0.
- 18-10-2007: Ported one of my own favorite QBASIC games to C++. Seven years ago, I called the game Boenken, and the C++ port still brings honour to this name ('Boenken' in English would yield 'Bonking'). Also, the game can support a maximum of twenty players! Prepare for cosy evenings behind your keyboard with your friends. Like all my games, it is licenced under GPL 3.0. Go to the Games page to see 'Boenken'.
- 17-10-2007: Added a VCL version of 'Image Rotater', a tool to rotate images under any angle. See the 'Tools' section of Code Snippets C++.
- 16-10-2007: Yesterday, I've discovered a very simple cryptography algorithm! See the Mathematics section of Code Snippets C++. And to test and use it, I wrote a suite of programs under the nominator 'Encrypter'. See the Tools section of Code Snippets C++. As always, the tool is licenced under GPL 3.0.
- 15-10-2007: Simplified the use of the music section. See Music.
- 13-10-2007: Added a simple new code snippet called 'Trim' to remove leading and trailing spaces, at the std::string section of Code Snippets C++.
- 12-10-2007: Programmed a new tool called 'Morpher'. It generates intermediate images and writes these to disc automatically. Licenced under GPL 3.0. Check the Tools section of Code Snippets C++.
- 05-10-2007: Wrote a new RichelCult poem called 'Som Zeven'. See RichelCult
- 29-09-2007: Wrote and recorded a new hit 'Organellenwals' for the fans and one of my Belcampo school classes! See Music.
- 29-09-2007: Changed my E-mail adress.You can view my E-mail adress here. Try sending your fanmail there!
- 24-09-2007: In the morning one can put great games made by others online, in the evening one might create his own great games and put them online. Today, I've finally programmed the game Reversi in C++, licenced under GPL 3.0. That's about nine years after I've programmed it in QBasic. Check the Games section.
- 24-09-2007: Today I've had the great honor to put a great game by Joost van den Bogaart online: 'Wizard Battle', licenced under GPL 3.0. See Games.
- 22-09-2007: Knokfighter 1! A great game! Today, I put the source code, Windows executable and resources of 'Knokfighter 1' online, licenced under GPL 3.0. Also the future Knokfighter storyline can be viewed. See Games.
- 19-09-2007: Put the presentation of 'Eukaryote' on my Projects page.
- 07-09-2007: Added a paper-rock-scissors simulation program, licenced under GPL 3.0. See the 'Biology' section of Code Snippets C++.
- 12-08-2007: All games are supplied with source code and licenced under GPL 3.0. See Games.
- 11-08-2007: I have the honour to add the game 'Public Toilet Manager 5' on my website. The game is developed by Joost van den Bogaart under the GPL 3.0 licence, so the source code can be downloaded as well. See Games.
- 10-08-2007: When one can rotate images, one makes a tool called 'The Image Rotater' (spelling error intended). See Code Snippets C++.
- 07-08-2007: YAHOO! After 17 years of struggling, I've finally been able to create a C++ function to rotate a bitmap under any angle! See Code Snippets C++.
- 29-07-2007: I've seen that when copy-pasting my code, extra empty lines are added. I've tried to write a tool ('The Empty Lines Remover', see Code Snippets C++), but it did not work. Adding links to a plain text file does work fine.
- 27-07-2007: Added Bjarne Stroustrup, Herb Sutter, Andrei Alexandrescu, Scott Meyers, Andrew Koenig en the young Bill Gates to the C++ panel of the C++ course. I'll be giving at the Stadswerkplaats Groningen. See Courses.
- 26-07-2007: Added some new C++ code snippets, see Code Snippets C++.
- 25-07-2007: Now my pages can be found more easily in Google: they even have proper names!
- 25-07-2007: I've put the downloadable C++ code on their download pages, for example of the Console Canvas class and the Gnuplot interface class. I dislike downloading before viewing myself too much.
- 21-07-2007: Added my course 'Programmeren in C++ voor beginners' to my website. See Courses.
- 18-07-2007: The pictures of me performing could not be found. Nobody missed them, nevertheless I've fixed it. Ignore Performances like usual.
- 17-07-2007: The course guide ('cursusgids') with my C++ course at the Stadswerkplaats Groningen has gone to press. See the site of the Stadswerkplaats Groningen.
- 17-07-2007: I did not like having a 'Code' page and a 'Code Snippets' page, so I combined the two. See the new C++ Code Snippets and the Texas TI-84 Plus Code Snippets page.
- 16-07-2007: I did not like the licence of CodePedia, so I decided to put my C++ knowledge online for everyone to use. See C++ Code Snippets.
- 01-07-2007: Put my Dutch CV online. A great read! See About me.
- 27-06-2007: Yes! I will be able to give a low-budget low-level C++ course via the Stadswerkplaats Groningen! At the location of De Jonge Onderzoekers, Oosterparkwijk, Groningen, the course will be given three times. Each course consists of eight 2 hours long Thursday evenings from 19:00-23:00. Starting dates are the 20th of September, the 24th of January and the 24th of April. See the site of Stadswerkplaats Groningen how to enroll to this course.
- 14-06-2007: Added a tool to find a certain subset's sum from a given set. The tool is called The Combinator. See C++.
- 11-06-2007: I am negociating with the Stadswerkplaats Groningen to give some low-level low-budget C++ courses in the next scholar year. Check this News section!
- 10-06-2007: Fully recorded the song 'Ben Ik Een Spin'. See Music downloads.
- 10-06-2007: Rediscovered the complete lyrics of 'O Mooie Geluidsvrouw'. See Music downloads.
- 27-05-2007: Improved the Music downloads section. See Music downloads.
- 27-05-2007: Improved the lyrics of 'Ben Ik Een Spin'. See Music downloads.
- 07-05-2007: I wanted to remove the RichelCult section, but some people liked it. The world is a strange place :).
- 18-03-2007: Added the pictures of my last performance at the Open Stage of Life Sciences. See About me.
- 08-03-2007: Added some handy code: an STL surface plotter, an STL drawing canvas and an N-armed bandit learner!
- 04-03-2007: Added some Links and added some code: a Gnuplot interface class! See C++.
- 25-02-2007: Added a news archive section. See News archives.
- 25-02-2007: Added pictures of the results of the logistic growth equation sim. See C++.
- 21-02-2007: Improved the eductional program 'Frysk Leare Lieder'! See Game downloads.
- 21-02-2007: Improved 'PokeVolley'! See Game downloads.
- 21-02-2007: Added a C++ section! See C++.
- 21-02-2007: Added a links section! See Links.
- 10-02-2007: Added the eductional program 'Frysk Leare Lieder'! See Game downloads.
- 03-02-2007: Finished the lyrics of 'Ben Ik Een Spin' ! See Music downloads.
- 29-01-2007: Added my new working-on-it song 'Ben Ik Een Spin'. See Music downloads.
- 29-01-2007: I will be performing mid February! See Performances.
- 28-01-2007: Again improved the main menu of K3-Op-Een-Rij. See Game downloads.
- 24-01-2007: Improved the main menu of K3-Op-Een-Rij. See Game downloads.
- 20-01-2007: Release of my 6th CD! See Music downloads.
- 20-01-2007: Finished the RichelCult section
- 18-01-2007: Put nearly all lyrics online in Music downloads.
- 09-01-2007: Put site online
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