For those of you that don't know me already, I live in Amsterdam near the city market the Dappermarkt and the zoo Artis. I started my career in software development as a SQL programmer at one of those companies where you were allowed to wear short pants and play squash at Squashcity in between doing some actual work.

Besides being able to play squash a lot, the level of the people working there was quite high. Working with them got me addicted to having a creative, elegant solution rather than to have something working but was ugly as hell.

Obviously this also meant spending a great deal of time figuring out why stuff works the way it does. Programming SQL can be fun but has it's limits. Luckily the shop also had quite a large .Net development team and it didn't take me long to make the move to c#. From day 1 I have been in love with Visual Studio and c#. I really, really enjoy programming a lot, even more these days thanks to Resharper and the 3.5 framework.

Nowadays I work for a large global IT consultancy dedicated to using the Microsoft platform to help enterprises achieve profitable growth (shameless copy from the US site). My work focuses around building Brownfield solutions that involve either SharePoint or Web forms (follow the money).

I have a great passion for anything that will improve the process of building quality software. This means constant reading, follow many blogs and share knowledge. Thus far I have been doing this in the teams I worked with but I look forward to share my points of view using this blog.

I will spent most of my time blogging about code, testability, SOLID and anything else that will come on my way.