SCIP.be - Welcome

Welcome to SCIP.be, the website of software developer and passionate traveller and photographer Stefan Cruysberghs. The pages on this website show my most beautiful (travel) photos. You can also browse through a lot of my own articles about software development (HTML, .NET, C#, Delphi, ...) and in addition you can download several older components and freeware applications.

The tabs at the top of the page can be used to navigate between the different categories. At the left all subitems are shown. Below you will find the most recent additions:

Photo blog : Evening photography in Duisburg

A couple of photos of evening photography in Duisburg. The ‘Tiger & Turtle’ sculpture is a walkable roller coaster. And in a small parc the Mercator globus can be found. more

2012-05-10 - Photos, Duisburg

Photo blog : The mills of Kinderdijk

Some photos of the 19 windmills in Kinderdijk in South Holland. They were constructed around 1740 to drain the polder. Nowadays there are a UNESCO World Heritage Site. more

2012-04-29 - Photos, South Holland, Kinderdijk, Mills

Photo blog : Flowering tulip fields in Zeeland

It’s spring and in Zeeland (The Netherlands) the tulip fields are flowering. Last Saturday in the early morning I started photographing these magnificent display of colours. more

2012-04-12 - Photos, Zeeland, Tulips

Photo blog : Swans

Photos of a group of swans on the lake of the nature reserve De Maat in my neighbouring city Mol-Rauw. more

2012-03-24 - Photos, Swans

Photo blog : Winter

Photos of Lommel and surrounding areas during the coldest week of this winter. more

2012-02-11 - Photos, Winter

Photo blog : Flamish and Zeelandic coast

A day of photographing at the Flamish and Zeelandic coast in Breskens, Cadzand, Knokke and Blankenberge. more

2011-12-26 - Photos, Sea, Coast

New version TscExcelExport for Delphi XE2

The TscExcelExport component is an advanced, powerful but easy to use VCL component which enables you to export all records of a dataset from Borland/CodeGear/Embarcadero Delphi to Microsoft Excel. Version 4.1 offers support for Embarcadero Delphi XE2 (32 and 64 bit) and Office 2010. The component is free for non-commercial use and all sources are included. more

2011-12-14 - Component, Delphi

Photo blog : A weekend of photographing birds

Photos of a weekend of photographing birds from a hide in Viroinval in the Belgian Ardennes. more

2011-11-12 - Photos, Ardennes, Birds

Photo blog : Autumn in the High Fens

Photos of autumn in the nature reserve High Fens (Belgium) near Ternell with the small Hill and Getzbach rivers. more

2011-10-25 - Photos, High Fens, Autumn

Photos of western Canada

Photos of my trip through the states of British Columbia and Alberta in western Canada. In the beautiful Rocky Mountains we did several hikes. Regulary we spotted wildlife like deer, black bears, squirrels, ... At the west coast we took the ferry through the fjords and remote islands of the Inside Passage. On Vancouver Island we explored the rugged beaches and impressive rainforests and took multiple sea trips to observe orcas, whales, sea lions and bald eagles. The highlights were the encounters with grizzly bears during the annual salmon run. more

2011-10-02 - Photos, Canada, British Columbia, Alberta

Photo blog : Damselflies and dragonflies

Some photos of damselflies and dragonflies in my hometown Lommel. more

2011-08-11 - Photos, Damselflies, Dragonflies

Photo blog : Living statues festival

During the weekend of 18th-19th June my hometown Lommel organized a living statues festival. Several wonderful living statues and amusing street artists from all around Europe were invited to demonstrate their skills. more

2011-06-19 - Photos, Living statues, Street artists

Customize WCF RIA Services code generation

SP1 of Visual Studio 2010 and the new WCF RIA Services Toolkit makes it possible for you to implement you own code generation classes that can manipulate the client code generation of WCF RIA Services. In this article I will describe how the code generation works and I will demonstrate some scenarios and ideas were customizing the generated code is a nice technique to extend your own framework. more

2011-06-12 - Article, .NET, WCF RIA Services, Silverlight

Photo blog : Tree frogs

Photos of some European tree frogs (Hyla arborea) in a nature reserve. The frogs are range from 3 to 4 cm in length. more

2011-06-06 - Photos, Tree frog

Photos of Cappadocia and Istanbul

Photos of my journey to Turkey in May 2011. We hiked for one week in Cappadocia in the Göreme region with fruit trees en vineyards, spectacular rock formations, fairy chimneys and a lot of cave houses and Byzantine churches. Each day we stayed in another village. After the hike we flew to Istanbul and in 3 days we visited the impressive mosques, beautiful palaces, museums and markets. more

2011-05-26 - Photos, Turkey, Cappadocia, Istanbul

Photo blog : Hallerbos

Photos of the Hallerbos (Dutch for Halle forest) with its bluebell carpet (Hyacinthoides non-scripta) which covers the forest floor for a few weeks during spring. more

2011-04-30 - Photos, Hallerbos

New version TscExcelExport for Delphi XE

The TscExcelExport component is an advanced, powerful but easy to use VCL component which enables you to export all records of a dataset from Borland/CodeGear/Embarcadero Delphi to Microsoft Excel. Version 4.0 offers support for Embarcadero Delphi 2010 and XE and Office 2010 and it includes some improvements and bugfixes. The component is free for non-commercial use and all sources are included. more

2011-04-24 - Component, Delphi

Photo blog : Balloon ride

Photos of a hot air ballon ride above Walloon Brabant in Belgium. more

2011-04-19 - Photos, Balloon ride, Walloon Brabant

Photo blog : Zealand

Photos of a day bird watching in Zealand (The Netherlands) more

2011-03-30 - Photos, Zealand, Birds

Photo blog : Côte d'Opale

Photos of a trip to Côte d'Opale (Opal coast) in France with beaches, dunes and cliffs between Cap Blanc Nez and Cap Gris Nez. more

2011-03-08 - Photos, Côte d'Opale