Count your lines! Count them one by one

June 18, 2007

Here is something that always is a point of discussion in software development projects; “How many lines of code is this, anyway?”

This is a add-in to Visual Studio (worked like a charm on my 2005 version) that counts the lines of code, in- and excluding comments and blank rows if you want to.

Really nice actually and quite fun also. It is at least some kind of measurement, for the project management anyway.

Oh yeah - in six weeks we have produced 48 000 lines of code… We’re so proud! But also, I once heard that typically a programmer introduce a bug with every 100 lines of code he write; that gives us 480 bugs in the system. For that we would not be so proud.. :)

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Humanism

June 15, 2007

There is a movement growing in Sweden called “The humanist” or something. They are not that many but since they are high profile people the tend to take a lot of medial space. Also they have a very hard and condemning tone in many of their articles and appearances.

Their main thesis (according to a TV-interview with their leader Christer Sturmark yesterday) is that they are against religion but all the bad things religion leads to.

Well, well, well - that is something extra I must say. (sarcasm coming up:) Because all we religious people think that is the bad things that people do in the name of all religions are the thing to focus on. In fact - I think that, that is the whole idea with religion. Or isn’t it?

Seeing an embarrassing debate in TV yesterday, surrounding this, I thought of two things:

  • What is the...
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Transform XML with XSL, and string

June 14, 2007

This took us a while to find and put together. I don’t want to have to go through it again.

This function takes a xml-string and transforms it with the sent-in XSL (also string). The output is returned as a memory stream that, for example, can be set in a web browser controls DocumentStream property.

Here is the code (yes, in my favorite new language VB.NET ;)):

Friend Shared Function TransformXML(ByVal xmlString As String, ByVal xslString As String) As MemoryStream Dim memStream As MemoryStream = Nothing Try ' Create a xml document from the sent-in string Dim xmlDoc As New XmlDocument xmlDoc.LoadXml(xmlString) ' Load the xsl as a xml...
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VB.NET - warnings for XML documentation, denied

June 13, 2007

When you generate system documentation from the XML comments in your code you want a way to be sure that the quality of the comments are as good as they can be, and in the earliest stage possible.

One way to accomplish this would have the compiler to issue an warning for all missing, faulty or un-matched comments it finds during compilation. In Visual Studio 2005 and C# this is very easy by setting the warning level to 4, treat all warning as errors and generating XML documentation.

VB.NET however… is another story all together, and again I understand that this is a choice. It’s like a philosophy of the language; VB.NET stands for simplicity and getting help from the environment where C# stands for control and managing the nitty-gritty details. However AI or help from the environment in my opinion very often leads to situations where you want to...

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Paris in pictures

June 12, 2007

Here are some pictures from Paris, where Elin and I went this weekend. Not as warm as in Sweden but perfect sightseeing-weather. We must have walked 2 miles (Swedish that is) each day…

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VB.NET showing build configuration

June 11, 2007

Just found a solution to something that have confused and annoyed for a while.

In VB.NET the current configuration (Debug/Release) is not shown. This is quite confusing if you are setting properties on a project, for instance. Which configuration are you setting the property for?

Here is the solution; it turns out that VB.NET is hiding the configuration for you by default. So to show them again go: Tools->Options->Projects and Solutions->Show advanced build configurations.

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Whit friday and Black Dyke

June 11, 2007

There is a famous brass band / marching competition in Great Britain called Whit Friday. There are loads and loads of bands taking part and they march up to a small village do a march and then continue on. Most bands do more than 15 events like this during the day.

There really fun part of it is that bands of all sorts take part from the most famous to the …eh.. not so famous.

Here is a short clip of Black Dyke doing a march in Delph. Take special notice of the tuba players in the front. I could carry one of those tubas for a minute, not to mention how it would be to play it…

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The french

June 11, 2007

The french people, by the way, is really interesting… They still think that English is not to vital to know, even the people involved in tourism.

And just to show how little the are willing to adapt to standards that the rest of the western world adhere to… the French keyboard: https://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/keyboards/kbdfr.htm

Yep - you’ve guessed it folks. The French have a keyboard of their own. Of course I might add…

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Paris

June 11, 2007

I’ve been away on a short trip to Paris for a few days. It was my surprise-birthday-present to Elin. She was really surprised also - I went to her workplace and played (of course) “our song” on my euphonium. I guess that it wasn’t too good since two people guessed that it was the fire alarm. This is, by far, the worst criticism I ever have gotten :).

Then we went to Paris and saw all the great things there; Sacre Couer, Eiffel Tower (yes - we went up. No - walked the first two levels, then elevator), L’arc Triumph and Paris town in general. It really is a nice town. I’ve been there before and didn’t like it too much but now it was great.

The hotel we stayed in was not to great (Altona - don’t go there) and was run by two brothers that each of them...

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VasaGospel release

June 5, 2007

Today i will introduce a great choir when they release a new CD. They are VasaGospel and I am so proud to have a choir like that in the ranks of our corps (church for all you non-salvationists).

I have been a secret fan of them and have listen to some of their earlier CD’s and they really rock! If you ever get the opportunity to hear them - don’t miss it! Great singing, great band and some great testimonies.

So - tonight they release their latest CD “In need”. Observatoriegatan 4, Stockholm. Don’t miss it.

Also, another first for me - introducing a CD-release

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