Jef Claes

On software and life

11 Apr 2011

Using C# keywords as variables

Hold it, don't shoot me. I know this would be an awful practice, but it is an interesting C\# compiler quirk nonetheless...
10 Apr 2011

It's not how good you are, it's how good you want to be

This Christmas, my girlfriend and I got this little book called [It's not how good you are, it's how good you want to be...
07 Apr 2011

Video, slides and source from my WebSockets talk

Yesterday, I gave a talk on WebSockets at HTML5 WebCamps Belgium. > **WebSockets on Fire** > > While the WebSo...
12 Mar 2011

Keeping WebSockets alive

The problem with using stateful connections on an imperfect place as the internet is that connections might drop. The se...
01 Feb 2011

Why I still buy real books

As a technology geek, it should be hard to keep ignoring the latest generation of eReaders (read: [the Kindle](http://ww...
22 Jan 2011

Book review: The Art of Non-Conformity

The book [The Art of Non-Conformity: Set Your Own Rules, Live the Life You Want, and Change the World](http://www.amazon...
15 Jan 2011

Book review: Got Fight?

I rarely review books with non-technical content here, but I just felt like I had to with this one. The book [Got F...
06 Jan 2011

Book review: Pro HTML5 Programming

The [Apress](http://apress.com/) book [Pro HTML5 Programming](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1430227907?ie=UTF8&tag=di...
29 Dec 2010

Reviewing and renewing resolutions

### My career I'm still working on the same projects as I was last year: Firestation Antwerp and Ghent. This year w...
26 Dec 2010

HTML5: Exception handling with the Geolocation API

In [my previous post](https://jefclaes.be/2010/12/html5-geolocation-api-is-scary-good.html) on the [Geolocation API](htt...