My name is

David Cumps

Freelance software engineer

A passionate geek, always curious, always learning.

The Gatekeeper Test 2004 security quiz from Microsoft Netherlands is over: I finished 102nd with 3950 points.

Mark Pilgrim's Dive Into Accessibility: what developers can do to make sites work for blind users, people without JavaScript and slow connections.

Edition #5 of the free Dutch-language .NET Magazine is coming, covering Whidbey, Indigo and XP SP2.

I launched PC Guru, a Dutch-language hardware help site for beginners, on dasBlog like Patrick Verbruggen's XP Guru.

My Abit IT7-MAX2 ran the memory too fast and killed a RAM module, and turned out not to support three dual-sided modules either.

How one ASP.NET usercontrol can control another, and why usercontrols normally shouldn't know what is outside their borders.

UPX compresses executables you drop onto it; my VB6 program went from 208 KB to 77 KB.

VBDOX does for Visual Basic 6 what NDoc does for .NET: MSDN-style documentation from XML comments, as HTML or a help file.

The slides and demo code of my (Dutch) talk on writing secure ASP.NET: cross-site scripting, SQL injection, hashing passwords and more.