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Where to find me during the Developer Days 2011

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Somebody recently asked me what sessions I was planning to attend at the upcoming 2011 edition of the Microsoft Developer Days in The Hague. To be honest, my primary reason for going to a Dutch conference is to chat with fellow .NET enthusiasts, and attending sessions is usually a side-effect of ...

April 8, 2011

Speaking engagements for the next months

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I’m very happy that I’ll be speaking at a number of very nice local and international conferences. On Saturday March 26th, I’ll be joining the Dutch Code Camp event where I’ll be doing a chalk’n’talk on my Silverlight Cookbook initiative. <ul> <li>On Wednesday, April 27th, I will t...

March 17, 2011

Introducing the Silverlight Cookbook

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In the 2nd half of 2010 I was so fortunate to get the chance to build my first enterprise-class line-of-business application written in Silverlight 4. And although I designed my original reference architecture earlier that year, actually building it is a completely different thing. I learned a lo...

March 7, 2011

Another release for Fluent Assertions

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It’s only February, but I’ve received so many requests from the community that another release of Fluent Assertions was easily warranted. New Features Somebody working under the name of CtrlAltDel pointed me at the little-known fact that floating point variables are inheritably inaccurate and...

February 27, 2011

Get me on stage on the Developer Days 2011

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Although the Dutch Microsoft Developer Days is mostly about foreign speakers, the organization has a recurring event called the wildcard sessions. This allowed me to speak at the biggest Dutch conference of the year for two years in a row. Unfortunately, the number of proposals has exploded this ...

February 23, 2011

ALM Practices every developer should know about

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So now that I’ve finished my multi-part post on getting the most out of user stories, it is time to provide a nice convenient overview of some essential practices that I’ve blogged about. I don’t have any additional parts planned, but if I come up with something new, I’ll make sure this list is u...

February 6, 2011