App ratings in mobile app stores are really broken. This post is mostly about the Windows Phone Store and Windows Store but may apply to Android and iOS as well. More...

We're pleased to announce that our Windows 8 app marketing tool has been launched! More...

Are you a Windows 8 developer? We are building a free marketing tool that lets you create great marketing material for your app in no-time. More...

Full-Text Search is a very powerful feature that can be used for a wide range of business scenarios such as building a search engine. The problem is that Full-Text Indexes aren't supported in the current version of SQL Azure, so we have to use Lucene.NET for this. At the moment of writing, Lucene.NET does not work with the latest Azure SDK, so we had to fix that. In this post I will describe how I got Lucene.NET 3.0.3.0 working on Azure with SDK 1.8. More...

WinRT has a built-in authentication client that can be used to authenticate users through Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Google, etc. This post covers the process of authenticating users with Google. More...

In this little post I explain why I think that you'll need to start developing for Windows 8 if you want to be part of the next big thing. Here are four good reasons, ordered by increasing importance. More...

Two years ago I started my first company, called Tweakplanet, a simple company that provides software development services to customers. This taught me a lot of things, but mostly how to work cost-effectively. Here are some great tips for anyone who wants to start her own business. More...

This tutorial will show you how to keep your entities and your views clean by translating entities to viewmodels. It is a good practice to do this because it keeps your files clean, it avoids certain security problems and it's more flexible, as you will read in this article. The examples are using C# and ASP.NET MVC, but the concept is pretty generic and can be applied to virtually every programming language or framework. More...

I recently saw Scott Guthrie's presentation of ASP.NET MVC 4 on the TechDays in the Netherlands. How showed us a couple of very interesting features that are new to ASP.NET MVC 4. Here are the coolest features that you will definitely love. More...

Now that we've come to an end you hopefully have a good understanding of how to make your software testable, how to write unit tests, what the best practices are and what TDD is. Unit testing proves itself as a very valuable technique to constantly validate if your software is still working (regression testing) and it enables you to automate a large part of your testing process. However,More...