Recent Posts
Moving to Software Factories
You may have heard of Software Factories already, but failed to grasp the actual meaning of it. This two-pager should help to understand the fundamental ideas behind Software Factories and the way Microsoft and Ordina deal with them.
Redmond 2006 - A Trip Report
Since I’m back, several colleagues and friends inquired about the trip to Redmond. But sadly, the last two weeks were a bit busy (both personally as well as professionally), so I simply did not find the time to write a trip report…up to now…The trip started on 10:00 Tuesday the 28th of March when...
Eastern wasn’t so good for me
From a weather point-of-view, Eastern was quite good. I’ve visited Delft by bicycle for two days and enjoyed some nice beverages in the sun. However, it didn’t finish well. Yesterday morning I discovered that somebody couldn’t leave its hands off my car!!!! The lock was broken, the Pioneer DEH-P8...
Managed Debugging Assistents on the rescue
In several projects, I’ve been heavily using COM and other interop-related technologies. The pain with these technologies is that is often very difficult to track down bugs and interop mismatches. The same applies to working with No-Touch Deployment. Problems that occur while loading the applicat...
Back from Redmond
Just to let everybody know that I’m working on an extensive trip report. Just be patient…
Redmond, here we come…
In the last couple of months, me and five fellow consultants have been attending Microsoft Netherlands’ Lead Enterprise Architect Program. Up to now, this program consisted of four evenings in which Microsoft consultants elaborated on how their products and components can be used in the daily cha...
Fluent Assertions