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Bart Kessels

Hi, I'm Bart Kessels

Software developer from the Netherlands. I like to write about various technical subjects, like C# or CMake and spend my free time hiking long-distance trails.


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.NET benchmarks
Category: C#.NET

.NET benchmarks

Have you ever wanted to test if a solution or algorithm you've written or refactored is performing faster than the previous iteration? In this post, we'll take a look at how you can use the BenchmarkDotNet library to write benchmarks for your C# code.

Bart Kessels 4 min
Plural string resource in your Android app
Category: Android

Plural string resource in your Android app

When your app supports multiple languages using the string resources, it's pretty assumable that at some point you'll be needing a string that is different for multiple amounts. In this blogpost we'll be discussing the solution on how to achieve this.

Bart Kessels 5 min
Automatically testing the UI of your Android app
Category: Android

Automatically testing the UI of your Android app

During your development phase, you'd like everything that can be automated to be automated. This also goes for your UI testing, you can either click through the UI yourself, our let the test runner do that for you.

Bart Kessels 9 min

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Create an Android app
Story Series 6 posts

Create an Android app

Have you ever wanted to build your own Android app? We'll in this story we're going to dive straight into the details on how to do this!

C# 12 updates
Story Series 4 posts

C# 12 updates

A couple of weeks ago Microsoft has released C# 12 which packed a lot of new features. In the upcoming weeks I'll be diving into these update and writing about it.

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Daily note calendar logo

Daily note calendar

Quickly navigate your Obsidian vault using a calendar view, this plugin allows you to create and navigate to periodic notes and notes that are created on a specific date.

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Pieterpad
Pieterburen - Sint Pietersberg, Netherlands

Pieterpad

The Pieterpad is one the most well known long distance trails of the Netherlands. It spans the entire length of the country from the far south all the way to the north.

500 km 310.7 mi 5 of 26 sections