Articles by Patrick Kalkman (Articles: 10, Technical Blog: 1, Tip/Tricks: 2)

Articles: 10, Technical Blog: 1, Tip/Tricks: 2

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Mobile Apps
Android	Androng, a Pong clone for Android 1 May 2011 Updated: 1 May 2011 Rating: 4.96/5 Votes: 43 Popularity: 8.11 Licence: CPOL Views: 153,648 Bookmarked: 97 Downloaded: 11,965 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article describes how I developed Androng, a Pong clone for Android.
Windows Phone 7	Blue Hour 27 Mar 2012 Updated: 22 Apr 2012 Rating: 4.96/5 Votes: 60 Popularity: 8.81 Licence: CPOL Views: 90,297 Bookmarked: 84 Downloaded: 1,718 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article describes the development of Blue Hour, a windows phone 7 application that calculates when the sunrises and sunsets at your location.
	RegiRide, a complete Windows Phone application 25 Apr 2012 Updated: 24 Jun 2012 Rating: 4.99/5 Votes: 51 Popularity: 8.52 Licence: CPOL Views: 113,052 Bookmarked: 123 Downloaded: 2,473 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A complete WP7 application with SQL compact database, LINQ to SQL, MVVM Light and Dropbox integration
	Weekly Thai Recipe! for Windows Phone 24 Jun 2012 Updated: 6 Jul 2012 Rating: 4.92/5 Votes: 37 Popularity: 7.71 Licence: CPOL Views: 77,979 Bookmarked: 82 Downloaded: 1,800 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A complete WP7 application with a central management website (ASP.NET MVC4) for recipe management and push notifications
Programming Languages
C#	Automatic Culture Flowing with WCF by using Custom Behaviour 30 Nov 2007 Updated: 30 Nov 2007 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 12 Popularity: 5.21 Licence: CPOL Views: 63,948 Bookmarked: 21 Downloaded: 1,165 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. An article to demonstrate culture flow from Windows client to Windows server using WCF.
	Dynamically Generate a WCF Proxy 22 May 2010 Updated: 8 Jan 2011 Rating: 4.04/5 Votes: 13 Popularity: 4.50 Licence: CPOL Views: 115,801 Bookmarked: 48 Downloaded: 2,538 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Save time by using a dynamically generated WCF proxy
	Digest Authentication on a WCF REST Service 27 Feb 2011 Updated: 27 Feb 2011 Rating: 4.95/5 Votes: 27 Popularity: 7.09 Licence: CPOL Views: 157,917 Bookmarked: 65 Downloaded: 3,272 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. An article that explains Digest Authentication and a library to use Digest Authentication with WCF Rest and validate against any back-end.
C# 4.0	Solar Calculator - Calculate Sunrise, Sunset, and Maximum Solar Radiation 4 May 2010 Updated: 10 Jan 2011 Rating: 4.79/5 Votes: 33 Popularity: 7.27 Licence: CPOL Views: 136,881 Bookmarked: 80 Downloaded: 4,365 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A C# assembly for calculating Sunrise, Sunset, and Maximum Solar Radiation
Security
Encryption	Basic Authentication on a WCF REST Service 24 Jan 2011 Updated: 28 Feb 2011 Rating: 4.89/5 Votes: 46 Popularity: 8.04 Licence: CPOL Views: 346,083 Bookmarked: 191 Downloaded: 10,821 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. An assembly that adds Basic Authentication to an IIS hosted WCF REST service to validate against any back-end.
Web Development
ASP.NET	PDF reporting using ASP.NET MVC3 26 Sep 2011 Updated: 5 Aug 2012 Rating: 4.83/5 Votes: 72 Popularity: 8.88 Licence: CPOL Views: 440,221 Bookmarked: 179 Downloaded: 30,679 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A description and solution for creating PDF reports using ASP.NET MVC3.

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All Topics
	10 Ways to Improve Your Software Architecture Design [Technical Blog] 9 May 2010 Updated: 9 May 2010 Rating: 4.88/5 Votes: 15 Popularity: 5.59 Licence: CPOL Views: 73,843 Bookmarked: 25 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. You can improve the quality of your Software Architecture Design by using the following 10 tips. I use these 10 ...

Average tips rating: 4.60

General Programming
Performance	Do not use "using" for WCF Clients [Tip/Trick] 18 May 2011 Updated: 18 May 2011 Rating: 4.88/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.41 Licence: CPOL Views: 7,090 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Good Tip, got my 5!As an alternative to your tip, when using generated proxies you could also add the logic to a partial class with the same name as the proxy class, see below.public partial class MyGeneratedProxyClient : IDisposable{ void IDisposable Dispose() { try...
Web Development
HTML	Improve spelling and grammar of your Articles and Tips [Tip/Trick] 22 May 2010 Updated: 24 May 2010 Rating: 4.33/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 3.66 Licence: CPOL Views: 12,300 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Use the tool "After the Deadline" to improve your spelling and grammar

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Patrick Kalkman

Architect http://www.simpletechture.nl

Netherlands

Patrick Kalkman is a senior Software Architect with more than 20 years professional development experience. He works for SimpleTechture where he helps teams develop state of the art web applications.

Patrick enjoys writing his blog. It discusses agile software development. Patrick can be reached at patrick@simpletechture.nl.

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Awards:

Best Mobile article of March 2012
Best Mobile article of June 2012

Articles by Patrick Kalkman (Articles: 10, Technical Blog: 1, Tip/Tricks: 2)

Articles: 10, Technical Blog: 1, Tip/Tricks: 2

Average article rating: 4.83

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