Time Cockpit Blog - Rainer Stropek

Continuous Integration With Windows Azure Websites and Team Foundation Services

Windows Azure Websites (WAWS) is a great PaaS service in Microsoft's Cloud Computing platform Windows Azure. It makes it very easy to create, run, and scale web sites or web APIs. The new Team Foundation Services integrate perfectly with WAWS and make it possible to setup a continuous integration environment in the cloud within minutes.  Read more ...

Presentation about Business Model Evolution for SaaS (Dublin MS GISV Summit 2012)

SaaS is an important trend in the software industry. In this presentation Rainer Stropek from time cockpit speaks about typical challenges that software vendors have to solve to successfully transfer from the classical licensing-based model to a SaaS strategy.  Read more ...

BASTA Austria 2012: Parallel and Async Programming in C#

At BASTA Austria 2012 I did a workshop about parallel and async programming in C#. In this blog article you find the material (slides)  Read more ...

BASTA Austria 2012: TypeScript - JavaScript on Steroids

At BASTA Austria 2012 I did a session about TypeScript. I introduced the new language and showed demos in the browser (with jQuery, require.js, etc.) and on the server (with node.js).  Read more ...

WPF CheckBox With Confirmation Message

During BASTA Austria I have been asked a WPF question. How can I implement a confirmation question that is asked whenever a user checks a CheckBox?  Read more ...

WPF and Prism Workshop at BASTA Austria

In this article you can view the slides for my WPF & Prism Workshop at BASTA Austria. Additionally you can download the sample code.  Read more ...

Session at AZUG in Brussels

On October 25th 2012 I did a session at the Azure user group in Brussels about "Catching The Long Tail With SaaS + Windows Azure". Here you find the slides and the link to the recordings.  Read more ...

Sample Code for TypeScript Article in Windows.Developer Magazine

I am currently writing an article about TypeScript for the upcoming issue of the German Windows.Developer magazine. It contains a larger code sample demonstrating some key concepts of the new language.   Read more ...

The CoFX Data Model

Extensibility is an important aspect of time cockpit and its underlying framework CoFX. In this article I share a training slide deck that I use in CoFX trainings to describe the CoFX data model.  Read more ...

Cloud Computing - was bringt's? (German)

Am 27. September 2012 durfte ich gemeinsam mit Thomas Rümmler von AIT einen Vortrag zum oben genannten Thema auf dem 2. Symposium für Software Architektur und effiziente Entwicklung variantenreicher Systeme der Technischen Akademie Esslingen (Stuttgart) halten. In diesem Blogartikel finden Sie die Slides und den Text für das Tagungshandbuch)  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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