Peter Eysermans

Disclaimer: This post is for fun, learning and experimenting. Use these tools wisely, in no way am I encouraging malicious use of them. Last week I came across an interesting device, the USB Rubber Ducky. It looks like a normal USB stick but when you plug it into a computer,

Unfortunately a lot of companies are still stuck with Windows servers. Nobody ever got fired for choosing Microsoft, right. As a developer this can be frustrating because choosing a server technology is usually limited to ASP.Net. I have experimented with hosting Node.js applications on a Windows server by

Aliases are a handy way to quickly execute certain commands in the terminal on Mac and in the command prompt on Windows. I recently read this post about git aliases which nicely demonstrates what is possible, it focuses on git commands but it can be done for any type of

This excellent tip comes from my coworker Konstantin. If you have a Visual Studio solution that has a lot of projects and is slow you can speed up Visual Studio by disabling automatic file restore. To disable automatic file restore open Tools > Options in Visual Studio, select Projects and

I started reading the Code Complete book on vacation in Italy in book2014 not realizing it would take me more than 3 years to finish it. At the end of 2017 I finally read the last page. Do I recommend it? Yes absolutely. Although it can be dry, even boring,

In 2017 I started working on an Android app, at some point a custom graph was needed that could be changed by the user. Drawing the different parts on the screens gives the most flexibility. The Canvas is used for drawing, the custom component where the drawing will happen is

After Techorama the next conference I attended was Joy of Coding, something completely different and a more alternative conference. The organisation was absolutely flawless. There was even a vegetarian and vegan lunch option which was actually very tasty: Here are my takeaways. Living the good life - Ted Neward How

The last Microsoft focused conference I attended was the Techdays in 2008, almost 10 years ago. I heard good things about its successor, Techorama, so I decided to attend this year's edition. These are my notes and experiences of the sessions I attended. Azure: the intelligent cloud by

Last time we made a Fake build script for an ASP.Net MVC project. I wanted to bring this to the next level and set up continuous integration for the project. I've used TeamCity in the past and it was ok, it did its thing but there was