Found this article on Agile Software Development and it made me realize two thing that humbled me:

• I haven’t done to much of Agile development. And reading this article makes me sad… This thoughts that agile development base the whole development process on is solution to many of the problems that I have encountered in different projects. I have even said and been the guys that mr Folwer talks about as “the old, bureaucratic engineering” developers. Brrr - sends shivers down my spine when I think about it :)
• The .NET community is a bit behind… or in any case can only harvest the good ideas invented by the Java-community. This article is written 2000! And! in it he talks about these methodologies as they have been around for some year.

But then again - isn’t this what it is all about. Get some new idea, try...

Found this site http://www.istadensspar.se/.

Apparently this is a guy that used to drive a subway train in Stockholm underground who got tired of getting the same question all of the time; “what does it look like in the tunnels?”. So he brought his camera and took some pretty amazing pictures.

The pictures on the site is just a small selection of the pictures in the book but very very nice. The book will probably be bought and placed on a future coffetable…

The last two days has been spent chasing bugs in production environment.

For non-developers this is a bit like trying to fix a broken bridge with traffic still running, i.e. quite scary, stressful and with angry users thinking that you can go faster.

We have now arrived to a solution on the bugs and the reflection phase sets in. Nice…

On of the problems (non-production I’m glad to say) had to do with ASP.NET and Javascript. The customer wanted the ENTER-button to trigger a login-form to submit. But the page had some other parts in the form that also submitted.

This has been troublesome to solve in ASP and ASP.NET for a long time but with ASP.NET 2.0 there is a very nice solution to this problem, an attribute called DefaultButton.

Here is a nice article describing how to use it.

Update: just after implementing this solution we found...

This weekend I was guest on a wedding. It was all very nice but it struck me how hard it is to keep those kind of parties interesting for everybody.

A quite natural focus is on two persons and if you don’t know them (as i didn’t do - and as often is the case) it will tend to get quite hard to follow.

Then there is the thing with the people around your table. A strange tradition in Sweden is that you are placed with people you don’t know. And this only if you are married yourself - up to that point you are seated with your girlfriend.

So that placed me next to the priests wife. She was quite nice but talked soft and also dozed of into sleep from time to time. This is not a very good grade for me I realize :). To my defense...

This was one of my favorite TV-programs when I was a kid. It quite sad when you think about the quality, but the character has become somewhat a legend in Sweden. And here you can find all the episodes http://www.tv5.org/TV5Site/la_linea/

Got the tip from my father, which is a first, but equally fun.

A friend of mine has developed one of those easy, addictive and fun games. http://solidworkspilot.com/ will get you started … and continue … for quite a while.

Also you can challenge your friends in a very provocative way.

I had the great opportunity to play and rehearse under Mr James Watson. He is really a great guy and a great band instructor. We have had a very nice (but exhausting) four days with him and the concert on Friday night went quite alright (the band had some odd moments in Couldcatcher Fells).

Then on the Saturday morning we did a short but very rewarding rehearsal on the great Paganini Variations. The band has really been improving so that also went alright. It is within our reach I would say…

Got a tip of really fun site http://www.expertvillage.com/.

Here there are a lot of experts uploading videos of how to do stuff. So if You wonder how a Sitar is played, how to build a new kitchen or how to throw a American football - here is the place.

A lot of fun is guaranteed.

I couldn’t find anything about the euphonium… yet. Might upload some stuff there if I dare

Today it is really cold in Stockholm, about -10 degrees Celsius. That’s nice I think, for a shorter time. This is what winter is all about.

But today we will also see (i guarantee it) the famous Swedish Coldness-trump. This is an age old game that Swedes have been playing since the thermometer was invented. It is very easy to take part, and just listen people all around you and I promise that you will hear it played;

you just make a very long and dramatic story about how cold it was at your very special whereabouts. The coldest place and/or most dramatic story wins. And if you don’t have the coldest place you always tell the story about “that time when it was REALLY cold… I mean this is not cold in comparison”.

I am sure you understand the rules and objectives of the game by now. :)

Lets start this week with something really impressive and yet … sad.

Look at this and then just for a while try to comprehend how much time that have been put into this act. Just finding the honks (?) in the right key and “composing” the songs must have taken forever…