The Open Space, explained. Over a year and a half ago, my friend Erik invited me to SoCraTes UK, an international software craftsmanship retreat, where I discovered the concept of an open space. I fell in love
Doing what scares you So, a year has passed since a tweet from Mathias passed in my twitter feed.Plan for 2015: fuck up the comfort zones that survived 2014.— Mathias Verraes (@mathiasverraes) January 1, 2015The message
Developer back - fighting back After years of trying to ignore my lower back pain, it finally culminated in a spinal disc hernia last year. Luckily for me, that hernia was the final straw that got me actively
750 words to clear your head For those of us coming from version control systems like Team Foundation Server, Subversion or similar systems with a graphical user interface, using the command line with your version control systems might come
Getting started with the command-line of your dvcs For those of us coming from version control systems like Team Foundation Server, Subversion or similar systems with a graphical user interface, using the command line with your version control systems might come
NuGetFight: my first OSS out in the open The past couple of weeks Kevin Pelgrims and I teamed up to create NuGetFight, a website that enables you to easily compare NuGet packages based on their usage stats.As part of improving
Starting up fast with NoSQL: first steps After reading up a bit on NoSQL, I decided it was time for me to do some experimenting and see how quickly I could set up an application using NoSQL. One of the
Moving from WordPress to FunnelWeb The problemBegin this year, I decided to pick up blogging again. I had some good ideas to blog about (most of which I probably forgot already), but one thing kept me from doing
Something, something, … Refactor! Many of us developers leave for work on a daily basis, ready to throw ourselves onto the next change request that will change the world as we know it, only to find yourself
Code Contracts Static Checker: Best practices & guidelines As stated previously, Code Contracts can give you certainty that your classes behave exactly in the way you want them to.By defining pre- and postconditions on them, you can tell what you
New Code Contracts Extension: See Contracts in Intellisense Code Contracts just got a whole lot better with a brand new extension for Visual Studio 2010!This new extension brings a couple of cool new features that help you while developing with
Code Contracts: Is the static checker really that thick? When you start working with Code Contracts, you often get the feeling that you have to add contracts everywhere for everything. When you enable the static checker on an existing project, you might
Using Code Contracts to define behavior First: an introductionCode Contracts is a language-agnostic tool that provides you the power of Design By Contract development. In short, it enables you to make statements about what your code expects and delivers.
Calculating Routes in .NET: 5 minutes tutorial Calculating the 'road distance' between two points can come in handy when you want to calculate the transport costs between your company and your customers.Google Maps is great for calculating a single
STM.NET and .NET Framework 4.0 beta 2 ( Error 1603: A fatal error occurred. ) Recently I ran into some problems installing the latest Visual Studio 2010 beta 2. It gave me the very clear error message:"Error 1603: A fatal error occurred."Well that about says it
git Rocking your command line: Git & Hg installation For those of us coming from version control systems like Team Foundation Server, Subversion or similar systems with a graphical user interface, using the command line with your version control systems might come