Louis Haußknecht

Node and Node's package manager npm is getting more and more traction. There are a lot of projects that depend on npm for packages management. For example Apache Cordova. If you work in

Working in a corporate environment exposes some issues when trying to access git repositories on the internet such as Bitbucket or github. The main pain points are proxy servers. A typical corporate environment

Hadi Hariri (@hhariri) inspired me to give BDD a try. Unfortunately I’m currently working in a VB.net shop. So I tried to rewrite the BDD examples in VB.net. Poor MSpec.

For a new project I was keen on taking one of the so called Micro-Web-Frameworks for a test drive. My favourite Framework so far is NancyFx It's a HTTP in essence. But is

I’m using NSubstitute in a new TDD project for a component. Normally I prefer to program in C# but the company I’m currently working for is a VB-Shop, so I have

I think almost every dev had the pleasure to extract information out of text files. The content may be Logs, Debug outputs or from any other source. Lately I was asked task to

I spend some time trying out Rhino-Queues (RQ) and Rhino-ServiceBus. I'm convinced of the potential of these projects, that I'll add both to my stack of tools for my next projects. It’s

Yesterday I wrote about an issue with a Visual Stud io 2005 Smart Device projects, which were moved to Visual Studio 2008. Since creating a new project of that type in VS 2008

We moved our smart device project from Visual Studio 2005 (VS2005) to Visual Studio 2008 (VS2008). Everything worked after the upgrade except one odd thing: We have a ComboBox, which datasource is bound

The company I’m currently working for has about 100 developers, who are committing their code to SourceSafe. Since Visual SourceSafe (VSS) has some serious issues and is far away from bein state-of-the-art

This will be my first blog entry on my new stuff-for-geeks.com site. I decided to talk more about my daily life as a consultant and developer in the .net scene. So here