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Slides from the Design Patterns & Testability session at dotNED
As usual, I ran out of time big time, but still, it was a great evening. We continued until 21:45 and even though my throat was hurting as hell due to the flu, people were paying attention very well. TDD en testability are really difficult subjects and always cause a lot of discussion, but the di...
Dutch Open Space Code Day 2009
Open Space Code is a hands-on programming event following the Open Space format. The concept was borrowed (with permission) from the Open Space Coding Day that was held in the UK recently. Open Space events are more freeform than normal conferences, where all the interactivity is mostly found in ...
Design Patterns & Testability at dotNED and SDN
March will be busy month for me. On Thursday the 26th of March, we will be hosting the monthly Dutch dotNED community at the Holiday Inn hotel in Leiden. I'll be talking about testability and design patterns by showing how Test Driven Development and Design Patterns can help you create highly mai...
New coding guidelines for C# 3.0
Update June 29th, 2010This document has just gone through a major update for both C# 3.0 and C# 4.0. Read more about it here and get the document from http://www.csharpcodingguidelines.com/.I have been a long-time supporter of coding standards because I believe in its value as a way of improving ...
Hoorah, we have a daughter
Last Sunday, the 22nd of February, my wife gave birth to a beautiful little girl listening to the name Teddie. She was born at 14:24 in the Reinier de Graaf Gasthuis in Delft and her weight was 3940 grams. She is very healthy, but when her mother’s water broke, we discovered that she dirtied her ...
The circle of most influencing community members
Somebody recently asked me to name the top 5 of most influencing members from the software developer community. Since I spend a lot of my time reading books, articles and blog posts, that list is actually quite long. So I decided to name the six professionals who have been inspiring me the most i...