Author Archives: erictummers

About erictummers

Working in a DevOps team is the best thing that happened to me. I like challenges and sharing the solutions with others. On my blog I’ll mostly post about my work, but expect an occasional home project, productivity tip and tooling review.

Mono.Data.Sqlite and filelocks

Posted on March 21, 2012 by erictummers

While porting my projects to Mono I noticed some file locking on databases. There were no problems with the dotNET code. Seems like a difference in behavior between the two frameworks. A simple query to a Sqlite database would look … Continue reading →

Posted in Development | Tagged .NET, behavior, dispose, exception, IDispose, mono, Sqlite | 2 Comments

WinDirStat

Posted on March 7, 2012 by erictummers

From the list of tools Scott Hanselman calles 2011 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows I downloaded and installed WinDirStat and used it recently to pinpoint why my disk was allways full. WinDirStat scans the entire harddisk … Continue reading →

Posted in Tooling | Tagged Diskspace, Files, harddisk, scott hanselman, Tool, WinDirStat, Windows | Leave a comment

Techdays 2012 – day 2

Posted on February 19, 2012 by erictummers

Astrid Hackenberg – Multi-tenant applications on Windows Azure There are four models of sharing: Independent – share nothing Isolated – share infrastructure (IAAS) Isolated – share platform (PAAS) Shared – Share everything (SAAS) SAAS can be implemented on different ways … Continue reading →

Posted in Conference | Tagged Alex Turner, ALM, Astrid Hackenberg, async, await, awaiter, Bart de Smet, Cloudninja, IAAS, Martin Woodward, Olaf Conijn, PAAS, SAAS, Silverlight, statemachine, struct, Team Foundation Service, TFSPreview, unittest, visual studio, Visual Studio 11, windows 8, Windows Azure, windows phone 7 | 2 Comments

Techdays 2012 – day 1

Posted on February 18, 2012 by erictummers

Keynote Metro the vision of clear applications, like signs in the metro. You just know what they mean. Your application must do the same. That is why you’ll need to redesign it for every platform (desktop, mobile, web, tablet, …) … Continue reading →

Posted in Conference | Tagged async, await, Bart de Smet, bundling, charm, Conference, EF, Entity Framework, Erik Romeijn, Fons Sonnemans, IInspectable, Jeff Prosise, jQuery, Metro, minification, MVC4, naming conventions, NuGet, REST, Rob Miles, scott guthrie, SignalR, SQL Azure, Techdays, Web API, windows 8, Windows Azure, WinRT | Leave a comment

Techdays 2012

Posted on February 9, 2012 by erictummers

I’m attending Techdays 2012 in The Hague. Check back for a summary of the talks and the geeknight.

Posted in Conference | Tagged Conference, Microsoft, Techdays | Leave a comment