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.

Async message in Microsoft Visio

Posted on May 26, 2011 by erictummers

Microsoft Visio is the tool we use to draw our designs. This is the first time I want to draw a synchonous message in a sequence diagram and it’s a hell of a job when you don’t know how. Here … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Developer Days 2011 in The Hague – day 2

Posted on April 27, 2011 by erictummers

Declarative refactoring C#Chris showed the ?? operator that is the ? operator that tests if a nullable type is null and provides a default. He also showed the Tuple.Create and the dynamic type to remove out parameters, Yield return can … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Developer Days 2011 in The Hague – day 1

Posted on April 26, 2011 by erictummers

KeynoteThe days started with Arie talking us through the keynote.Scott talked about old programming languages, followed by the MVC and the concept of (Lego) blocks. How everything should be pluggable and fit together. Wade spoke of the Windows Azure Appfabric … Continue reading →

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Read It Later Digest

Posted on April 19, 2011 by erictummers

Every now and then I browse the internet. Whenever I end up reading something interesting my attention is needed somewhere else. Then I press the read-it-later button and the site is saved for later reading. After some weeks of reading … Continue reading →

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Icon editor

Posted on April 16, 2011 by erictummers

For a nice GUI I need nice icons. The IconWorkshop software from Axialis Software is the tool for me. Giving me more options than I need without making my head spin. A nice feature is constructing an icon from multiple … Continue reading →

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