Tim Van Wassenhove

Passionate geek, interested in Technology. Proud father of two

25 Apr 2009

Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think

Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think is another book that i started reading a couple of weeks ago....
25 Apr 2009

Essentials of Organizational Behavior

Somewhere in 2007 I started reading Essentials of Organizational Behavior and only finished it earlier this week. This b...
25 Apr 2009

Mastering regular expressions

A regular expression is a domain specific language for identifying parts in text and is one of those things every softwa...
18 Apr 2009

Pondering about code generation

A while ago i was listening to ‘Kathleen Dollard on MEF and More’ on NET Rocks! and it got me thinking. For ...
04 Apr 2009

Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager

A while ago i heared Joel Spolsky shamelessly promote Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineeri...
03 Apr 2009

POC: Moq API adapter for Rhino Mocks

One of my main concerns with third party software, and software in general, is maintainability. The Rhino Mocks project ...
28 Mar 2009

xUnit Test Patterns: Refactoring Test Code

xUnit Test Patterns: Refactoring Test Code starts with narratives on philosophy, principles, strategies and test smells....
24 Mar 2009

Strict mocks lead to overspecification

Here is an example that demonstrates how strick mocks lead to overspecification. Imagine that we are creating a simple s...
23 Mar 2009

Comparing Moq to Rhino Mocks

So which mocking framework should we use? Do we fall back on good old Rhino Mocks or do we choose for the new kid on the...
21 Mar 2009

Getting started with Moq

In this article I will demonstrate the Moq API by means of a simple application that allows the user to manage a quote. ...