Yesterday we heard the first chuckle and laughter from Albert… It was a very special feeling - for the first time you could sense his voice, how he will sound when he talks. Also it was very moving to see him so happy. He couldn’t keep it in… What made him laugh so, you might wonder? I told him to cough and tried to show him how. Apparently that was hilarious and he couldn’t stop to laugh. I’ll try to catch it on picture the next time and upload it here. You’ll have to do with this picture in the mean time.

Normally I don’t like to laugh at misfortune but this is just to much. From what I understand this is from a beauty pageant in USA. You know, one part of the competition is to show off a talent. And this unfortunate girl was told (I presume) to play the trumpet and dance. Said and done - this clip is now a legendary clip on YouTube with about 3 million views. Here you go: I don't even put it in the music-category as you might understand...

This guy, David Werden, has been around on the net for quite a while. But now he has expanded his site with a blog and some other great stuff. If you want to really dive into euphonium stuff then this is the place to be. And I want to, sometime.

Following a tip from Robban I’ve been checking out the Web Service Factory tool from Microsofts Patterns and Practices gang. Robban and I were discussing the use of Contract First design in an upcoming project and I was interested to see if there were any good tools out there. Well as it turns out there are good tools… but the one that seemed to be most complete was the Web Service Factory (horrendous name, by the way…). Also for us Microsoft-coders the PoP-gang is well-known and often delivers with great quality. I have now been checking it out and it is good. Here is some of the stuff I’ve been checking out The home of Web Service Factory (and the Codeplex home) Introduction A video showing off some features I am not yet convinced that we will go this way (the completeness is maybe too great fiddling with servers etc.)...

I just ran into an problem with installing a program on my Vista machine. That particular program needed to be installed from “an elevated command prompt”. That is; a command prompt running as administrator. There are a number of ways to do this and they are all covered here. That article talks about how to run the command prompt in an elevated mode and my favorite trick is to: type CMD in Start->Run… hit CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER - which is the shortcut to run things as administrator Viola! - you’re running as admin ;)

Let me at the start of the post first say that I love ReSharper. It is by far the best refactoring support that can be found for VB.NET. I haven’t yet used it for C# but are told but esteemed colleague that it rocks. But… (there is always a but isn’t it?) it messes up the Intellisense in my Visual Studio. The same colleague (kudos to Jocke) tipped me on how to solve it and here it is; Open the options for ReSharper and choose Intellisens->General->Use Visual Studio. This will not give you as much support for “Smart Completion” but I’ll take that over missing Intellisense everyday in the week, and twice on Sundays. Next - open the Visual Studio options and recheck that you have Intellisense enabled for are your languages. Finally restart the Visual Studio - just to be sure that this is saved properly. Again - the...

I’ve actually managed to avoid using Oracle through my now 10 years as a consultant. Up to now - and now I am really looking forward to it. Here are some starters that I’ve found useful as introductions: Learn Oracle and .NET in 2 days - from Oracle Oracle .NET developer center Oracle introduction to building .NET applications with ODT Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio (with some nice links) My… that was not a very long list. I promise to update it as I read… **[UPDATED] **The list is a bit longer now… Still not impressive though

This weekend was one of the hectic I’ve been through in a long time. But in retrospective also one of the most exciting and rewarding. Going backwards; Yesterday night we played a musical service at the Temple in Stockholm. Quite a good turnout with people - and many of the performances were the best during the complete rehearsal period. Before that - photo session with the Vasa Band for our CD - Priority. That was very fun and I hope and think that the pictures will be nice During the afternoon we went to Abbes first children birthday party. Viola turned 1 year! The Sunday started with our prayer group being in charge of the Sunday morning meeting. Abbes has got a small cold so I wasn’t present for the whole meeting but it felt alright until I left. The Saturday was entirely devoted for the Stockholm Marathon. As I...

This is probably old news for many of you but today I had great use of the Process Explorer tool. With it you can get detailed information of all the processes running on the computer and the DLL’s they are using. Also you can go the other way around; from a DLL find all processes that is using it. We used it today to solve the age-old problem; “The file cannot be deleted because it being used by another process” - WHICH PROCESS?!! Now you can solve that problem. Oh yes - that’s right; thank you Fredrik for this great tip!

This weekend one of the biggest sports events in Sweden will take place in Stockholm - the Stockholm Marathon. This year the only organisation that is allowed, offically, around the course is the Salvation Army. The Salvation Army in Sweden has decided to make an effort to raise money for water tanks for schools in Kenya. The Vasa band, the band of my corps, will be playing at Odenplan during the day. Also the Source Of Joy gospel choir will be there.   I have promised to speak during the day - and keep the day going. It will be great fun -but quite challenging also - we will go on for almost 8 hourse straight! Well, I’ll get back to you with some information on how it went.