Robert van der Hulst
is an independent software developer in the Netherlands. He has been working in the IT industry since 1984. He has developed numerous bespoke applications in and outside the Netherlands. He also has developed a couple of 3rd party extensions to Visual Objects, and has also provided support to other developers developing with Clipper, Visual Objects, C# and other development languages.
Robert has been part of the GrafX Visual Objects and Vulcan.NET development team in 2003 - 2009 and has been responsible for development, maintenance and support of these products.
He has spoken on numerous user group meetings and conferences throughout Europe, Australia and the United States.
Experience
Robert has been active in the IT industry since 1984 and is an all-round IT professional. He has worked with many development languages, development tools and methodologies:
Development Languages:
- Clipper (and 3rd party tools such as Funcky, Netlib, ClText, ClReport, Classy, Comix, Clipper Tools, Blinker, Warplink, DClip etc)
- C#
- C/C++
- Visual Basic and VB.NET
- Visual Objects (and 3rd party tools such as ReportPro, bBrowser, GridPro, SEUIXP, VOPP)
- Assembler (X86)
- T-SQL
Development tools:
- Microsoft DotNet (WinForms, WPF, ASP.NET, Silverlight, WCF)
- Microsoft Visual Studio
- Microsoft Team Foundation Server
- Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch
- Microsoft SQL Server (6.5 - Denali)
- Btrieve / Pervasive SQL
- Microsoft Access
- Microsoft Office (VBA)
- SAP Crystal Reports
- Help and Manual
- DocumentX
- Sybase PowerDesigner
- VMWare
- Joomla / PHP
Methodologies:
- SOA, Web Services, XML, MVC, MVVM
- Agile Development
- UML