bio

Tim Stall is a Software Architect at Paylocity, America's leading independent provider of payroll and human resource solutions. Before that, he worked at CSC and Deloitte Consulting, and had graduated from UIUC in Engineering. Tim specializes in .Net, has a passion for process, tools, and continual education, and enjoys writing blogs and developing side projects. Tim has an MCAD.Net (1.1) certification.

PROFESSIONAL GROUPS

• Tim is a proud member of the Lake County .Net Users Group.

BOOKS

• A Crash Course in Reasoning - Using images, tables, and constant examples, this book provides a practical and plain-English introduction to reasoning. October, 2008

PRESENTATIONS

• An Introduction to Silverlight - Lake County .Net Users Group, August 28, 2008
• MSBuild as an Automation Language - Chicago .Net Users Group, November 15, 2006

OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS

• MassDataHandler - A .Net 2.0 framework that uses Xml scripts and knowledge of the database schema to make it very easy to write database unit tests.
• Silverlight TruckWars - A simple Silverlight real-time-strategy game. For each level, you control various trucks (and other vehicles), and use them to push down all the green buttons. Enemy trucks will try to stop you. TruckWars is open-sourced on CodePlex (for the 1.1 Alpha).

PUBLICATIONS

  .Net Developer's Journal (in print)

• Database Unit Testing with the MassDataHandler, 12/2006
  http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/315042.htm
   
• Refactoring Your MSBuild Scripts, 07/2006
  http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/253420.htm
   
• ASP.NET 2.0 Callbacks: Using callbacks to create a rich Web UI, 05/2006
  http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/192509.htm
   
• Automating Your Processes - with an NAnt Case Study, 05/2005
  http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/86231.htm
   
• Beyond Just Getting it Done, 08/2004
  http://sys-con.com/story/?storyid=45915&DE=1

  4GuysFromRolla

• Unit Testing the Data Access Layer, 04/06/2005
  http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/040605-1.aspx
   
• Advanced Techniques with NUnitAsp, 01/26/2005
  http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/012605-1.aspx
   
• Understanding Interfaces and Their Usefulness, 11/03/2004,
  http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/110304-1.aspx
   
• Hosting a Windows Control in a Web Form, 05/26/2004,
  http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/052604-1.aspx
   
• Trigger Page Methods from a User Control, 03/17/2004,
  http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/021104-1.aspx
   
• Adding Client-Side Message Boxes in your ASP.NET Web Pages, 02/11/2004,
  http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/031704-1.aspx

  Articles on this blog

• Getting file and line numbers without deploying the PDB files
  http://timstall.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/getting_file_and_line_numbers_without_deploying_the_pdb_file.htm

  Other

• How to Test Private and Protected methods in .NET, 03/01/2005
  http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/TestNonPublicMembers.asp
   
• A Technical Implementation for Migrating Visual Basic 6.0 to C#, 04/13/2004
  Internal CSC whitepaper