Today is the last day of work for me… for the summer. Now a wonderful 4 week period of doing nothing much is starting.

For me the summer holds the following:

• First two weeks of vac cation in Croatia with Elin and my sister (the first week) which should be very nice. We’re going to Pula but the plan is to go around and see other places. The main goal though is slow, nice and mind-winding vacation
• Then home for a short while to wash up
• The last part of the vacation is planned to be celebrated (yes, that’s the word :)) on Hypplen in the Gothenburg archipelago.

So as you can see not much in there about computers, agile development or euphoniums and brass bands. That’s the whole idea! Vacation.

So I how that you all will have or are having a nice one too....

When converting from C# to VB.Net (not liking it though) I often find myself wondering “what is that keyword in VB.Net”. There are tons of pages that answer that question, this one is quite good and it can be nice to have one stop for all your questions:

http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/vbnet_c__difference.asp

If it fails for any reason try “[keyword in C#] vb.net” in Google.com. First hit will tell you the answer, never fails.

This is from some suspect Japanese game-show… Really impressed with the idea for it. I wanna try it out.

Found this yesterday and I liked it from two reasons:

1. Firstly it seems like a very nice framework. Simple, light(!)weight and easily understandable framework for handling dependency injection. I can’t wait until this will become available for .NET… please say that it will do. Please
2. I have a nice feeling from Google stuff - and now they are entering the development community…. Could be good, could be good… Although - they are now almost everywhere, and everybody seems to love them - that makes room for doing almost anything they want. Could be scary… so scary… :)

This is of course mega-old but here is a book tip: anyone interested in creating good code should read Refactoring by Martin Folwer.

This is great book on a subject that really can improve your output and code quality. As an added bonus the book is written in easy accessible way and with just the right amount of jokes and fun woven into it.

Read it! Now!

Just wanted to drop a few CD recommendations for the summer. I don’t (actually) buy that many brass band Cd’s which make me be the more concerned with the ones I actually buy.

The first one is Vienna Nights with Black Dyke Band. This is really something extra for us who like serious music for brass. Mr Philip Wilby (who has composed all tracks) has been one of the new and major voices in the brass band movement. His test pieces are loved by many and here is a small collection of four of them. The highlights for me (so far, I might add, since the pieces tend to grow on you) are Dove Descending… which is a absolutely fantastic piece.

The other CD is by the Black Dyke solo euphonium David Thornton - what a player! When he first started to play with Dyke I thought he was...

This guy must be the most dedicated lego-builder in the world. Read the text in the outset… get a cup of coffee and just be happy that you have something to do. May it be just the dishes

I read today about Sandcastle which is Microsofts new documentation utility for .NET Framework 2.0 (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/bb608422.aspx)

Soo - finally they have created a NDoc clone. I have been wondering why not NDoc has been upgraded to support .NET 2.0 but they probably knew that Sandcastle was coming along.

Also - I have been betting and introducing NDoc for .NET 2.0 (Alpha) in some of my build scripts. When Sandcastle finally arrive (CTP now so should take about a year) documentation generation will probably be done better with Sandcastle than with NDoc Alpha.

Hopefully this will give the NDoc guys some energy to start developing a final version for .NET 2.0. The alpha version is very good (no problems so far for me).

I had missed this: http://www.aftonbladet.se/atv/player.html?catID=2672&clipID=14502

Markolio at his best. Heckling the schlager-genre. The most embarrassing about this is that this song would probably have rocked at the competition. I mean that kind of music is not really innovative and challenging…

In short - I don’t like schlager (or whatever the word is in english) but this song rocks.

Here is a story about when my dignity was shredded. True I am afraid.

This weekend the Salvation Army Congress was held here in Sweden. We played with a small band on the last meeting, which of course was way to long for my tired eyes. So afterwards I rushed to get out instruments and packing.

Coming up from the basement I found a small boy (4 years maybe) pointing to a toilet saying: “He’s bleeding”. And right he was - in the toilet was another boy bleeding from his nose. A lot. Inside the toilet was also an old Salvation Army missionary women. And she was not afraid of digging in. I found her (ca 90 years mind you) wiping the floor and pinching the nose of the boy at the same time.

Of course I told her that she didn’t have to do that. I took over the...