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The Open Space, explained.

Over a year and a half ago, my friend Erik invited me to SoCraTes UK, an international software craftsmanship retreat, where I discovered the concept of »

Koen Metsu Koen Metsu on socratesbe, socrates, openspace, unconference 25 August 2016

Doing what scares you

So, a year has passed since a tweet from Mathias passed in my twitter feed. Plan for 2015: fuck up the comfort zones that survived 2014. »

Koen Metsu Koen Metsu on retro, socratesbe, socrates, fsharp, freelancing 02 January 2016

Developer back - fighting back

After years of trying to ignore my lower back pain, it finally culminated in a spinal disc hernia last year. Luckily for me, that hernia was »

Koen Metsu Koen Metsu on health 14 October 2013

750 words to clear your head

It's been a while since I have blogged, I must admit. I've been very busy with the release of the official DuckDuckGo app for Windows 8, »

Koen Metsu Koen Metsu 05 February 2013

Rocking your command line: Making Git bash more Windows-friendly

Git Bash is a great tool which has quite a few perks if you're using Git. For one, it has completion on the git commands and »

Koen Metsu Koen Metsu on git 04 October 2012

Rocking your command line: Git & Hg installation

If you're starting out with the command line of Git or Mercurial, this post can help you make things more comfortable for you ( and serve as »

Koen Metsu Koen Metsu on git 10 September 2012

NuGetFight: my first OSS out in the open

The past couple of weeks Kevin Pelgrims and I teamed up to create NuGetFight, a website that enables you to easily compare NuGet packages based on »

Koen Metsu Koen Metsu 10 September 2012

Getting started with the command-line of your dvcs

For those of us coming from version control systems like Team Foundation Server, Subversion or similar systems with a graphical user interface, using the command line »

Koen Metsu Koen Metsu on git 30 July 2012

NuGetFight: my first OSS out in the open

The past couple of weeks Kevin Pelgrims and I teamed up to create NuGetFight, a website that enables you to easily compare NuGet packages based on »

Koen Metsu Koen Metsu 01 June 2012

Starting up fast with NoSQL: first steps

After reading up a bit on NoSQL, I decided it was time for me to do some experimenting and see how quickly I could set up »

Koen Metsu Koen Metsu 26 March 2012

Moving from WordPress to FunnelWeb

The problem Begin this year, I decided to pick up blogging again. I had some good ideas to blog about (most of which I probably forgot »

Koen Metsu Koen Metsu 01 March 2012

Something, something, … Refactor!

Many of us developers leave for work on a daily basis, ready to throw ourselves onto the next change request that will change the world as »

Koen Metsu Koen Metsu 15 February 2012

Code Contracts Static Checker: Best practices & guidelines

As stated previously, Code Contracts can give you certainty that your classes behave exactly in the way you want them to. By defining pre- and postconditions »

Koen Metsu Koen Metsu 29 November 2010

New Code Contracts Extension: See Contracts in Intellisense

Code Contracts just got a whole lot better with a brand new extension for Visual Studio 2010! This new extension brings a couple of cool new »

Koen Metsu Koen Metsu 10 September 2010

Code Contracts: Is the static checker really that thick?

When you start working with Code Contracts, you often get the feeling that you have to add contracts everywhere for everything. When you enable the static »

Koen Metsu Koen Metsu 30 June 2010

Using Code Contracts to define behavior

First: an introduction Code Contracts is a language-agnostic tool that provides you the power of Design By Contract development. In short, it enables you to make »

Koen Metsu Koen Metsu 13 May 2010

Calculating Routes in .NET: 5 minutes tutorial

Calculating the 'road distance' between two points can come in handy when you want to calculate the transport costs between your company and your customers. Google »

Koen Metsu Koen Metsu 18 January 2010

STM.NET and .NET Framework 4.0 beta 2 ( Error 1603: A fatal error occurred. )

Recently I ran into some problems installing the latest Visual Studio 2010 beta 2. It gave me the very clear error message: "Error 1603: A fatal »

Koen Metsu Koen Metsu 18 November 2009
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