Awesome talks
January 17, 2014There are a lot of screencasts, recordings of user group gatherings and conference talks available online. I try to commit myself watching at least two new talks every week, and...
Read more ...Retrospective of 2011, Looking Ahead to 2012
December 30, 2011Yep, that time of the year again. Shiny new calendars and the accompanying festivities are upon us again. I can’t get rid of the feeling that every year passes by a lot faster t...
Read more ...My Personal and Professional Goals for 2011
December 29, 2010Around the same time last year, I wrote this blog post where I’ve set out a couple of things to learn throughout the year. Being really honest with myself, I must admit that I c...
Read more ...Retrospective of 2009, Planning for 2010
December 30, 2009After the Kaizenconf of 2008, I wrote down a couple of things I wanted to learn throughout 2009. Looking back at that list for the past year, I think I did fairly well. Retrosp...
Read more ...European Virtual ALT.NET Meeting Rescheduled
February 2, 2009Due to some technical difficulties, we were forced to reschedule the first European VAN meeting. It seems that using Office Live Meeting on a Mac is not a great combination. I g...
Read more ...European Virtual ALT.NET Meeting on 02/02/2009
January 29, 2009The first 'official' virtual ALT.NET meeting for the old continent has been scheduled for next Monday (02/02/2009). For this first one, Greg Young is kind enough to share some o...
Read more ...My 100th blog post for 2008
December 31, 2008I'm just in time for my 100th blog post for this year. As I mentioned last year, I think this is my absolute ceiling when it comes to writing blog posts, but you'll never know. ...
Read more ...Hello Real DDD World
December 31, 2008I'm really looking forward to the next Dutch ALT.NET meeting where Yves Goeleven will discuss DDD practices while having a look at a real production application. I think we'll h...
Read more ...Dutch ALT.NET Meeting - 11 December 2008
December 13, 2008Again lots and lots of interesting discussions during the recent Dutch ALT.NET meeting. My employer kindly lent us a nice meeting room to facilitate us geeks. Again, muchos grac...
Read more ...Kaizenconf Part 3 - Taking Action
November 5, 2008The last day of the conference was all about taking action as a community. Which actions should be taken based on the open-space sessions of the day before? I attended the ESB P...
Read more ...Kaizenconf Part 2 - Open Space
November 5, 2008After the pre-conference workshops, it was finally time to kick-off the open-space conference itself. Before Steven "Doc" List held his opening speech, Oren and Glenn couldn't w...
Read more ...Kaizenconf Part 1 - Workshops
November 5, 2008My colleague Peter and myself got back yesterday from Austin, Texas where we had one of the greatest learning experiences ever: the Kaizen Continuous Improve...
Read more ...Attending the Kaizenconf
October 30, 2008Peter and yours truly arrived at Austin yesterday for attending the Kaizenconf. I've been really looking forward to this. Hope to meet you there. If you see two goofy European g...
Read more ...Three years ago ...
August 25, 2008... I wrote my very first blog post (in Dutch). I've learned a lot of stuff since then. Time really flies, I must say.
Read more ...Peter works on the web!
May 27, 2008It seems that I managed to convince another one of my dear colleagues to start blogging (if my children thaught me one thing, it's that constant whining actually works!). Peter ...
Read more ...I'm on ...
May 21, 2008... Twitter. Why? Because all the cool kids are doing it ;-) (yep, I have no spine). Let's see where this goes.
Read more ...Castle Windsor vs writing your own
April 4, 2008Earlier this week I was in a meeting were someone stated that it was better to write your own IOC container than just using an existing one (the most excellent Castle Windsor in...
Read more ...I'm on Elegant Code
April 1, 2008David Starr from Elegant Code asked me whether I wanted to join his blogging group and I accepted. From now on, I will be the first European Elegant Code blogger. I want to than...
Read more ...Why O Why - The Day after
December 2, 2007Alex Henderson picked up on my "Why O Why" post in his take on the Pluggable IoC in WPF Composite & Enterprise Library v.Next. I still believe that an IoC Application Block...
Read more ...Why O Why
December 1, 2007Glenn Block announced on the ALT.NET Yahoo Group that the P&P team is developing a new dependency injection framework. To say it with the words of Captain Alberto Bertorelli...
Read more ...Community efforts
September 1, 2007I'm with Scott on this one. The fact that Microsoft duplicates the efforts of their own community is simply inexcusable. Why does this bother me? Using the best tool or library ...
Read more ...My advice to Jamie
May 31, 2007It seems that Microsoft is not pleased with the fact that my favorite VS add-in offers support for the VS Express SKU. You can read all about it in this post from Jamie Cansdale...
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