December 11, 2009
On the SkillsMatter-site there are so many good thing to read and see that I would have to spend a month just streaming video.
Just take a look at the categories:
OK – the minute I have a few weeks to spare… yeah right!
December 5, 2009
I am on my way home after presenting at two concerts with Windcorp Brass Band. Exhausted but very happy.
It all went down quite well. The band was in excellent form and played well throughout the evening and their rendition of The Cossack will stay in my mind forever. Also the thing surrounding the concert was, as always, good.
My own part in the whole thing went well, even though I had missed the fact that the concert didn’t had a intermission. Quite embarrassing when I told the audience that a break was coming up, just to then call them back in their seats. Well, well – it became a joke and was quickly forgotten.
I love doing this! If there was a way to make a living presenting concerts I would take it immediately.
December 4, 2009
Got a tip from Daniel about this video, that shows an easy way to learn and understand JQuery:
With this and Selenium I cannot stand back anymore – I need to install FireFox for the first time.
December 2, 2009
I’ve been attending a full day of presentations by Scott Guthrie, who seems to be involved in most things interesting at Microsoft. The output from this guy is just amazing; blogging, products, teams and thoughts… A lot.
I really looked forward to hearing him live and specifically what he had to say about ASP.NET MVC 2.
It was all good – even though the tempo in the presentation was breakneck speed. Many of the new technologies from Microsoft nowadays aims to be extensible and possible to tweek to your preferences.
From ASP.NET MVC 2 I especially like
I’m now enjoying his presentation on Silverlight 4, which will be my introduction to Silverlight…
...December 1, 2009
Found this nugget today when comparing numerous of very long SQL-strings. Yeah, yeah – I know; data access is a solved problem – but this app still got them. In spades!
And I also agree with the developer of the tool:
“Now, although pretty much every IDE (and various stand-alone products) have sophisticated diff utilities built in (like Eclipse), my favourite, I got very tired of having to create two files just to paste in fragments of code or other bits of texts just in order to perform a diff and see the differences highlighted.”
Except for the Eclipse-part maybe. The diff tool worked great and helped me a lot yesterday. And probably today… and the day after that, and the day…
November 26, 2009
A few days back we had a mail-wise discussion on the subject; why should we care about an ubiquitous language?
For me the question falls into two parts; for the whole company/business or for the application.
November 26, 2009
Often you can’t see them until afterwards… the events that really changed the course of your life. But in retrospect you can almost always point a single point in time when your life took a certain path.
Yesterday wasn’t one of those event. I know exactly when it happened. 15:12 2009-11-25.
We are going to have a second child. So we went to the ultrasound examination to see that everything was in order. And it was.
The nurse: He is the divider-wall (sorry but the non-techie English). Me (thinking): I never heard about no divider-wall when Albert was in there. Nurse: And here is the first fetus. Me: Ok… the first one. Nice…. What! First one!
After that the nurse had to leave us. Two takes longer than one. So I told Elin; that just now, that was a life changing event.
So we’re going to have TWINS!...
November 24, 2009
I had already forgot about this one… The Oracle-way of doing things is different and feels quite old to me.
Here is a short recap, it’s just for me later on – you could probably skip the next paragraph…
Normally you configure your Oracle client (ODP.NET for example) to use a datasource. This is datasource is then searched for in a file called tnsnames.ora. In tnsnames.ora you’ll find the server, port etc. that is needed to connect to the database. However – this means that you’ll need to make sure that tnsnames.ora is present and correctly configured on all the servers you plan to deploy your app on.
So – glad to be back with you – instead of this ugly tnsnames.ora thing you can put all of that information into your connectionstring:
Read More<connectionstrings> <add name="ConnectionName" connectionstring="Data Source=(DESCRIPTION =(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL...Moving items between listboxes with JQuery
November 24, 2009
Read MoreOK – this was so special and lucky… Being a newbie at JQuery I was wondering on how to move items between listboxes. Well a quick search later and this popped up:
Answering the question in two seconds. Internet is wonderful thing and without Google I couldn’t function as a contractor.
Kanban example by Henrik Kniberg
November 17, 2009
Read MoreFinally today I need to store a reference to this Kanban-example that Henrik Kniberg has posted.
He was one of the main reasons I started with Scrum and agile in the first place with his excellent Scrum from the Threnches.
