Tim Van Wassenhove

Passionate geek, interested in Technology. Proud father of two

22 Jul 2010

Brownfield Application Development in .NET

Brownfield Application Development in .NET is one of the better books i have read recently. The first part is about the ...
21 Jul 2010

Quick reminder about the workings of Type.IsAssignableFrom

Here is a quick reminder about the workings of Type.IsAssignableFrom class Fruit {} class Banana : Fruit {} [Test] publi...
20 Jul 2010

97 Things Every Programmer Should Know

97 Things Every Programmer Should Know was the last book that i wanted to read at the pool during summer holidays. As wi...
20 Jul 2010

Debug It!: Find, Repair, and Prevent Bugs in Your Code

A while ago i noticed that Davy Brion recommended Debug It!: Find, Repair, and Prevent Bugs in Your Code so i decided to...
20 Jul 2010

Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash

Not going to waste time re-iterating what’s in the book because you can find that here: Implementing Lean Software...
20 Jul 2010

Manage It!: Your Guide to Modern Pragmatic Project Management

A while ago i noticed that more and more of my work is related to coaching and managing other developers. In order to be...
20 Jul 2010

Removing Dead Tracks (Duplicates that don't exist) from iTunes using C#

Last week i noticed the following post from Scott Hanselman: Removing Dead Tracks (Duplicates that don’t exist) fr...
20 Jul 2010

The Productive Programmer

The first part of the book covers some tools that may improve your productivity (but nothing that i did not use already)...
03 Jul 2010

Sometimes you can write it better than Resharper

Here is a real-life example of when people are much better expressing intent than a tool: Consider the following code fr...
26 Jun 2010

Convention over configuration with MSBuild

A while ago i blogged that i was using the TemplateFile task from the <a hrefhttp://msbuildtasks.tigris.org/">...