Time Cockpit Blog - Rainer Stropek

Today I am at the NRWConf, a community event of Microsoft-oriented software developers in the Börse in Wuppertal.Beside presenting our product time cockpit I also do a session about MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) and data binding with WPF and Silverlight. Because I do the session code-only (no slides!) I have recorded the content last night to enable all participants to repeat the shown sample.  Read more ...

In October 2010 we will release version 1.4 of the time tracking tool time cockpit. The big new featur in V1.4 is security. You will be able to exactly control access to data and functions. Beside security the release 1.4 will also bring some visual improvements: Clearer color scheme for signal data, enhanced editor with syntax coloring for scripts and TCQL queries and much more. In the screencast below (German) you can get a glimpse of time cockpit V1.4.  Read more ...

On saturday I had the opportunity to speak about Framework Design Guidelines at the conference See# Party in Switzerland. Here are the key topics that I covered in my session.  Read more ...

Today we will release SP1 for time cockpit 2010. In this blog we would like to summarize the changes in this program version. Note that the setup for time cockpit 2010 SP1 can be used to install a new, fresh copy of time cockpit and to update an existing installation of time cockpit 2010.  Read more ...

The importance of time cockpit’s primary target market, the tertiary sector of economy, has been constantly growing since the 70s. There is no indication that this trend will be slowing down in the near future. Within the European Union for example 74% of all non-financial companies are in the service sector.   Read more ...

Naturally most services companies do not primarily provide physical goods. They supply skills, ingenuity and experience with the help of their service suppliers – people! Employees and especially their time is the most valuable asset in service companies. People working in this industry make their living from selling their work time. They have the crucial need to track what and for how long they work on specific tasks because this, at the end of the day, determines their costs to a great deal and in many cases even directly influences their sales revenue.   Read more ...

For the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference we have created a video that shows how time cockpit uses the Windows Azure Platform.  Read more ...

We invite you to prove your knowledge about certain subjects concerning Microsoft .NET technology by participating in a monthly quiz. This month the quiz is about C# and .NET secrets. In this article you can reread the questions. Additionally you get background information about the correct answers.  Read more ...

We invite you to prove your knowledge about certain subjects concerning Microsoft .NET technology by participating in a monthly quiz. This month the quiz is about SQL Server. In this article you can reread the questions. Additionally you get background information about the correct answers.  Read more ...

Auf dem DEVcamp 2009 durfte ich einen Vortrag zum Thema "Baumschule" halten. Inhalt waren Syntax Trees im Allgemeinen und Microsoft Expression Trees im Speziellen.  Read more ...