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I often get to work with brilliant people. That’s one of the real benefits of being a consultant, I would argue. Last week I got to know Thomas Gyllencreutz, who came onboard my project. He didn’t waste any time in getting the performance in our virtual development environments to new heights. This post is a condensation of his findings that...
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The last month I’ve read The Goal by Elijah M. Goldratt. Apart from being a great book, it was also written in a really interesting way. It’s a novel in which we follow Alex Rogo and how he learns about the Theory of Constraints. I thought that I might try to mimic that style a bit in this post. The...
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It’s been a while since I blogged. Twitter is taking over. I compensate that with a major blog post. Background I written about the project I’m in right now a couple of times before and to make a long story short; we don’t have any requirements! We only have the existing application which we are to “convert” from VB6 to...
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OK – this might not be one of my ordinary subjects but this was soo annoying. Sometimes when I closed the lid of my MacBook Pro there were something still running. This caused the battery to drain in about 20 minutes and the computer to go very, very hot. For the first time ever I actually burned myself on a...
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I had the opportunity to use Unity and Enterprise Library in my current project. On of the really cool features of Enterprise Library (and most Dependency Injection frameworks) is the support for Aspect Oriented Programming. It’s a really neat way of handling the cross-cutting concerns in your application. I was therefore very surprised when I had a really hard time...
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In my current project we have had a problem. The project is a “rewrite” project that shall “convert” a VB6 application into a VB.NET version of it. I put those words in quotes for a reason; here-in lies much of our problem in my mind. From the business-side of the project this has been viewed as technical problem and project....
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OK – I just broke my old “longest blog post title” but this was a problem we ran into today. As I understand the message some kind of duplication has taken place, but I don’t know what to do about it. Well I found this on a msdn-forum: This error is cause by one of your developer was deleted file...
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I have been involved in a lot of conversion project. More specific it has been converting legacy VB6 applications to .NET applications. I’m not sure why or how but I have found myself in many project like this. Common scenarios in conversion project Very often these project has an ideal picture that “it’s just a conversion”. “This is 1 to...
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Up to now most of my assignments has not been client-related. Often the project description and main focus is on the layers beneath the GUI. But lately I have seen a shift in the industry and more so in my own interest. Client-side stuff is coming on strong. And it’s hard work to design a well structured client application. There...
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This case may sound strange and I have seen loads of post that describes how to get out of this behavior. But we have a case where we want to allow anonymous access and the let a external component manage the security validation. This turned out to be very hard to figure out and required some wizard-like skills of Anders...
