Time Cockpit Blog - Rainer Stropek

BASTA 2014: High Quality C# - Code Quality in Practice

Today I will do a session at German BASTA Conference about C# code quality. In this blog I want to share my slides and the samples I am using.  Read more ...

BASTA 2014 Keynote: Die neue Offenheit

Gleich geht es auf der BASTA 2014 in Mainz auf die große Bühne für die Keynote. Hier eine Zusammenfassung einiger meiner Gedanken zum Thema neue Offenheit bei Microsoft.  Read more ...

C# Parallel and Async Programming

At BASTA 2014 I will do a full-day C# workshop. One of the topics will be parallel and async programming. In this blog article I share the code of my demo and describe the scenario I will cover: TPL, async/await, profiling of CPU-bound algorithms.  Read more ...

Profiling of DB-Related C# Applications

At BASTA 2014 I will do a full-day C# workshop. One of the topics will be profiling. In this blog article I share the code of my demo and describe the scenario I will cover.  Read more ...

BASTA 2014: C# Fitness

Tomorrow I will do a full-day workshop about C# at BASTA Germany. Over the years, the workshop has become a tradition and I am really looking forward to it. In this blog article I publish slides, code samples, and important links for attendees.  Read more ...

Microsoft Azure Sales Training Resources

Tomorrow I will do another Microsoft Azure training for sales executives in Vienna. In this blog article I summarize the most important web resources I mention during the training.  Read more ...

10 OData FAQs

Today will have a talk about OData at NRWConf conference in Wuppertal, Germany. It will be code-only talk so I thought it might be useful to provide some of the information I will cover in my session in a blog article. However, I have written quite some OData related article in my blog before. So this one has to be a bit different. I decided to answer some questions I regularly get when talking with people about OData.  Read more ...

(German) Funktionen zum Schutz der Privatsphäre

Das Risiko für Konflikte bei erstmaliger Einführung einer Projektzeiterfassung ist nicht zu unterschätzen. Information der Mitarbeiter ist ein Schlüssel zum Erfolg. Ein wichtiges Thema dabei ist die Wahrung der Privatsphäre. In diesem Blogartikel geben wir einen Überblick, welche Funktionen time cockpit diesbezüglich enthält.  Read more ...

Compound Keys in Excel Import

In the September version of time cockpit we have improved the importer for Excel and CSV files. It now supports compound keys. See a video demonstrating the new functionality.  Read more ...

Learn From Best in Class: Confirmation and Approval Processes

On the first sight, time tracking is a seemingly trival process. Start time, end time, describe what you did - that's it, isn't it? As teams grow, accompanying processes for confirmation and approval become more and more important. Read about what the best in class companies are doing.  Read more ...

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Rainer Stropek

Rainer Stropek

Co-founder, architect, developer

Bio

I am co-founder and CEO of the company software architects and have been serving this role since 2008. At software architects my team and I are developing the award-winning SaaS solution time cockpit. Previously, I founded and led IT consulting firms that worked in the area of developing software solutions based on the Microsoft technology stack.

In my work I focus on .NET development and software architecture. I have written some books and articles on C#, database development, Windows Azure, Windows 8 development, WPF, and Silverlight. Regularly I speak at conferences, do workshops and conduct trainings in Europe and the US. Since 2010 I have been MVP for Windows Azure.

I graduated the Higher Technical School Leonding (AT) for MIS with honors and hold a BSc (Hons) Computer Studies of the University of Derby (UK).

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