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Packtpub: Explore something new this Columbus Day with Packt’s biggest ever sale

By Daniel Marbach
In Announcement
October 16, 2013
2 Min read
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To all geeks out there: I’m usually hesitant when it comes to publishing marketing stuff on planetgeek. But this time I think it is worth it. Packtpub has 50% off on all their Books and Videos. This is definitely worth checking out. Here is their official press release and go and fill your bookshelf :): Packt Publishing is giving everyone the chance to explore its full range of over 1600 DRM-free eBooks this Columbus Day at a massive 50% off at , for 4 whole days. Customers simply use the...

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Clean Code Cheat Sheet

By Urs Enzler
In Announcement, Clean Code, Test Driven Development
June 5, 2013
1 Min read
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There is an updated version at It took me about one and a half year to update my cheat sheet about clean code and TDD. But now, it’s here. The cheat sheet has grown quite a bit and now contains principles, patterns, smells and guidelines for clean code class and package design TDD – Test Driven Development ATDD – Acceptance Test Driven Development Continuous Integration I had to re-layout the sheets because maintenance became a nightmare (yes, very ironic). Download: Clean...

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Happy new year

By Daniel Marbach
In Announcement
December 31, 2012
1 Min read
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Dear reader,
We wish you a happy new year and we are proud to have you as a reader of our blog. Stay tuned for an exciting year 2013.
the planetgeek team

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Layout update

By Daniel Marbach
In Announcement
October 14, 2012
1 Min read
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Finally it is almost done! We have a new layout which uses more up to date web standards and therefore is better suitable for mobile devices. The new layout is very spare and optimized for content. You should also notice a great speed improvement on the blog. The header of the page only contains the important pages and a small number of categories. All other categories are no longer available for direct access. Accessing the blog by using the search field is much faster and more accurate now...

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Accelerate your application development

By Daniel Marbach
In .NET, Announcement
June 28, 2012
3 Min read
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It has been a bit quiet on our blog for a longer time. Urs and I were pretty busy raising a new child. We long dreamed about a general overhaul of our pet project bbv.Common. We have long been searching for a cool name which reflects the ideas behind the library. Now it is time to announce the final release version of the renamed bbv.Common. Drum roll… Appccelerate is a library which helps you accelerate your .NET application development. The libraries are based upon real world experience...

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GitExtensions 2.24 and Apply Patch pitfall

By Daniel Marbach
In Announcement, Software
October 15, 2011
2 Min read
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Today I survived a shocking experience.  I’m working on an open source framework. Some of the features I’ve been doing at home on a cloned git respository. I have commited about 6 times for a feature. Another change of the feature I was doing on another machine at my workplace. These changes were another two commits. I then patched the two commits I did on my work computer and applied them at home upon the other six commits with gitextensions (version 2.24). When I applied the...

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.NET Usergroup Zentralschweiz

By Daniel Marbach
In .NET, Announcement
July 27, 2011
1 Min read

Urs Enzler and I are building up the .NET Usergroup in central switzerland. .NET interested people, software engineers or administrators with a strong flair towards technology and methodologies from central switzerland meet together to listen to interesting talks, presentations and workshops. The user group offers a knowledge and practice exchange platform in the heart of switzerland. We work closely together with the .NET Usergroup Bern. The main focus is to spread interesting knowledge about...

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