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Crap, time can go by so fast. On Monday a tweet by Ralf Westphal caught my attention and I felt the need to comment. It started as a series of Twitter replies, but to be honest Twitter isn’t suited or made for those kind of discussions. So I started to write this post in order [...]

Although I’m still not 100% sure that I “get” what the Twitter fuzz is all about, I decided to give it a try and use it for a while, in order to form my opinion about it.
If you’re interested to stay in touch via Twitter, here’s my Url:
http://www.twitter.com/BjoernRochel
Cheerz
Björn

With the “Diving into the StoryTeller trunk series” coming to an end in the near future, I’m currently looking into several ideas for future posts. Here’s what I’m currently thinking about:
1) xUnit.BDDExtensions feature walkthrough and documentation
Let’s be honest it’s currently not documented at all. I failed big time at documenting its usage scenarios and behavior [...]

tttI’ve been investing a lot of time in learning WPF lately. WPF has always been somehow interesting to me, however I never found actually the time to learn it from the ground up. I’ve been trying to grok it for several weeks know and am now slowly coming to a point were I can feel [...]

Since I’ve read some bits about Rails I often wondered how “Convention over Configuration” (CoC) might look like in a .NET environment. StructureMap  was (AFAIK) the first IoC container in the .Net realm which provided functionality in order to combine conventions with dependency injection. It’s not surprising that StoryTeller relies a lot on StructureMap and [...]

… you should take a look at this wonderful article by Scott Bellware
http://www.code-magazine.com/article.aspx?quickid=0805061
Enjoy the reading!

I’m currently in the process of preparing material for a workshop at my current client. The workshop will be mainly focused on implementing client-side Composite Apps with the Composite UI Application Block / SCSF but it’ll also contain a large portion about Composite Apps in general.
While the CAB / SCSF is good documented in [...]

First of all: Happy new year to everyone. I know, I know, I’m really late with that
It’s been really quite on this blog for the last two month and I’m sorry for that. I’ve been busy changing a lot of things that caused me frustration and friction in my life as a software [...]

After 1 1/2 hours of train ride , 11 hours of flight and 30 minutes with a taxi (in that order) I finally arrived in San Francisco. It’s my first time in the USA and I’m also currently experiencing jet lag for the first time. 9 hour time difference is huge! It’s a weird feeling [...]

Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to just call

var report = myDto.Validate();

without sacrificing extensibillity, testabillity, etc? What about at this,

public static class ObjectExtensions
{
public static ValidationReport Validate<Subject>(this Subject subject)
{
[...]