Tim Van Wassenhove

Passionate geek, interested in Technology. Proud father of two

26 Jan 2010

About dependencies

This weekend i noticed a couple of posts by Uncle Bob trying to get some discussions going. In Mocking Mocking and Testi...
23 Jan 2010

About forced design

if you need typemock your design is wrong. Although i understand what people are trying to say with that quote, it&rsqu...
16 Jan 2010

Programming the Bus Pirate with C#

A while ago i received my Bus Pirate from Seeed Studio Depot. In essence it is a universal serial bus interface and i wo...
09 Jan 2010

About raising events

Very often i see people write the following to ‘safely’ raise a method public event EventHandler Stopped; vo...
09 Jan 2010

Add "Run as administrator" to .sln files

Another trick i learned from the “How-To Geek” is how to add a “Run as administrator” option in ...
08 Jan 2010

Creating graphs with the Silverlight Toolkit

As i wrote already: In a chart the elements on the X-axis are usually numbers or dates, and the elements on the Y-axis a...
08 Jan 2010

Creating series of elements

Lately i have done quite a bit of charting. Very often the X-axis is populated with a series of numbers or dates. This c...
27 Dec 2009

Refactoring to Patterns

Earlier this month i ordered my copy of Refactoring to Patterns. This books has two parts: the first part describes patt...
16 Dec 2009

Ninject: connect an IProxyFactory component to the kernel

Because it’s the second time that i run into this i will post the solution here so that i (and all the other peopl...
07 Dec 2009

The Nomadic Developer: Surviving and Thriving in the World of Technology Consulting

This is probably one of the shortest book reviews ever, but there is not much to say about The Nomadic Developer: Surviv...