My name is

David Cumps

Freelance software engineer

A passionate geek, always curious, always learning.

My feasibility study on the Belgian eID card: what the technology is, what you can do with it, and how to implement it.

A small client/server chat that shows eID in a Windows application: clients log in with their eID card and every message is signed.

The consumer side of .NET Remoting: an ASP.NET web service that gets the controller object from a Windows Service on the same machine.

Controlling a Windows Service with .NET Remoting instead of ServiceController, which could only send integers and got nothing back.

Windows Services, how they differ from the usual Windows Forms approach for business applications, and how I built one.

Saving disk space in Virtual PC with differencing disks: one read-only parent image shared by many child disks.

ASP.NET 2.0 On Tour in Brussels, March 2005: what ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005 offered, and how to migrate to them.

What blogs are, how they differ from forums, and why their personal nature makes them such a valuable source of information.

How Microsoft Virtual PC let me test my internship work on a Windows 2003 server image, on my laptop and my desktop alike.