Dennis van der Stelt

Dennis van der Stelt

I'm a developer, international speaker and coach/trainer. I love to discuss code, software architecture and distributed systems, messaging, star wars and lego with anyone who wants to listen or speak.
I currently work at Particular Software on NServiceBus.

Why developers should not be happy with a project manager

I’ve been on a fair amount of projects in the past 10 to 15 years and almost all of t...

DevDays wildcard proposals and voting

Because it’s not clear to anyone, I want to state that you don’t have to actually be ...

Wildcard proposal If you build it, you’ll ship it

Every developer is familiar with the phrase It works on my machine. But what if you...

Asserting private objects with unit testing

There’s a lot of discussion going on about designing for testability. One of the prob...

Silverlight 3 SDK Beta 1

Via Twitter @MarcelMeijer and SDN site, that Silverlight 3 SDK Beta 1 was just releas...

Best developer tools

Because of the nature of my work, coaching people onsite and training people in clas...

Azure and Virtual Machine hours

I suddenly remember that Azure can supply you with analytics on how your services and...

Attach to debugger script and shortcut

I got sick of manually attaching to the webserver (either aspnet_wp.exe on WinXP or w...

Visual Studio settings

I regularly forget, after reinstalling my desktop or laptop, what settings I had con...