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.

The comparison between software development and construction fails

The comparison between software development and construction fails

We’ve all seen the comparison between development work and constructing buildings. I ...

SDN Event March 18th

SDN Event March 18th

For March 18th I did two presentations Data replication or data duplication As system...

Colored console tracelistener for Enterprise Library 5.0

Colored console tracelistener for Enterprise Library 5.0

At work we’ve been using Enterprise Library for quite some time. A new colleague came...

Databases and coupling

Databases and coupling

We probably all learned this at school. When you build software, you analyze requirem...

Bing Maps on WPF and custom PushPin tutorial for PixelSense

Bing Maps on WPF and custom PushPin tutorial for PixelSense

I’ve just came back from a trip to Washington DC, where I’ve been at the 50th IAM Int...

High availability

High availability

We’ve had a lot of success applying the principles and practices of the Advanced Dist...

The 11th Fallacy of Enterprise Computing

The 11th Fallacy of Enterprise Computing

This is an old article by Ted Neward that I’ve been trying to find for ages, as the o...

What is messaging

What is messaging

I’ve written in SDN Magazine about messaging and how it relates to RPC. It isn’t abou...

CQRS Journey taking community contributions

Microsoft Patterns & Practices team has started a journey to CQRS with the idea to cr...