Category Announcement

In Announcement, Security

October 10, 2009

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Since the year 2004 I’m a member of the Web of Trust from Thawte and have been giving trust points to a number of people. To spread the web of trust we did also signing parties at some universities and schools. This era has come to an end! Thawte decided to discontinue the personal e-mail certificate and the web of trust services. Thawte recently published that security compliance requirements have become more restrictive, while the technology infrastructure necessary to meet these...

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Twitter account

In Announcement

October 10, 2009

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Just a short notice. We have now our own twitter account available under . On this twitter account you’ll receive the latest updates when new posts are published on planetgeek.ch. Hope we’ll have you soon as one of our followers.

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CodePlex Foundation

September 17, 2009

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Have you ever been thinking in one of your commercial projects of how one particular open source tool or frameworks could solve a lot of your problems but there were to many uncertainties in terms of licensing, compliance to your customers needs and law impediments etc.? I think you have. Must people now tend to say go for Apache 2 license and you won’t have to worry to much because you have almost any rights to change and adapt the provided code (naively speaking). Recently the CodePlex...

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prio.conference 2009

September 1, 2009

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Zeit für etwas Werbung prio.conference zum Thema User Interface am 28. und 29. Oktober 2009 in München Frei nach dem Motto „Es gibt keine zweite Chance für einen ersten Eindruck“ widmet sich die prio.conference 2009 grundsätzlich dem Aushängeschild jeder Anwendung: User Interface Auf der prio.conference 2009 am 28. und 29. Oktober in München erfahren Sie in rund 30 Sessions worauf bei der technischen Architektur und dem Design der Oberfläche zu achten ist. Lernen Sie, welche Technologien sich...

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NMock2 Documentation Now On MediaWiki

In .NET, Announcement, Software, Uncategorized

August 10, 2009

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Due to changes on sourceforge.net and its hosted applications, the documentation of NMock2 – a library for assisting test driven development of .NET code by providing a dynamic Mock Object framework for .NET interfaces and classes (virtual and abstract members of classes) – has been moved from WikiSpaces to MediaWiki.
You can check it out at

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Prio 2009 in Munich

June 12, 2009

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Just a quick announcement that I’m going to have a speech at the Prio 2009 in Munich on October 28. or 29. 2009. The main topic of the Prio conference this year is “User Interface”. I’m going to talk about UI development the TDD way and show how to use the Passive-View-Command pattern for better testability, extendibility and changeability. I’m touching a lot of topics in this session: MVVM – Model View ViewModel pattern WPF commands and “normal” command pattern Unity – Inversion of Control...

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New author on planetgeek

In Announcement

April 1, 2009

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We can happily announce that our team is growing. A new team member recently joined the planetgeek team. His name is Thomas Weingartner. He will be publishing his curriculum vitea on the about page as soon as possible. We are happy to have you in our team Thomas! A warm welcome to you!

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Dynamically create delegates

March 20, 2009

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Recently I was facing a problem regarding delegates. I needed to dynamically create a delegate which “points to” a dynamically reflected method which is not static on a given type. The problem was, that at the time of the “inspection” of the type I had no instance of that type available. Normally delegates “pointing to” instances are said to be closed on a given instance therefore you need to have a concrete instance of the type available which the delegate can be bound to. An example of a...

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NMock2 is fast. Really fast!