Koen Metsu

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.— Mathias Verraes (@mathiasverraes) January 1, 2015The message

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 the final straw that got me actively

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 with your version control systems might come

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 with your version control systems might come

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 their usage stats.As part of improving

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 an application using NoSQL. One of the

The problemBegin this year, I decided to pick up blogging again. I had some good ideas to blog about (most of which I probably forgot already), but one thing kept me from doing

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 we know it, only to find yourself

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 on them, you can tell what you

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 features that help you while developing with

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 checker on an existing project, you might

First: an introductionCode Contracts is a language-agnostic tool that provides you the power of Design By Contract development. In short, it enables you to make statements about what your code expects and delivers.

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 Maps is great for calculating a single

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 error occurred."Well that about says it