June 5, 2008
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.
June 5, 2008
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
I am not yet convinced that we will go this...
June 4, 2008
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:
June 4, 2008
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 Intellisense->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...
June 3, 2008
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:
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
June 2, 2008
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 Templein 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 May 30, 2008 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! May 29, 2008 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. May 29, 2008 The presentations on Monday went well. The SOA-part of the presentation was even better than I first hoped. My partner and I didn’t have that much time to prepare or at least try it out. But I thought that we got the message across. For the euphonium part it was a shaky trip from bad to good. The theme and the first variation was just awful - I counted six or seven errors. Then I played the triplets and they went well … better. Before that night I’ve never nailed the last variation - it’s so hard. But all of a sudden it just flowed. I was very satisfied with that! OK - now for the next thing. On Saturday I will be a presenter for the Salvation Army during a big event for Stockholm Marathon. That will be fun! May 26, 2008 Just now the Intellisense stopped working in Visual Studio 2008. Scared me a lot - since I thought that it would make me re-install the complete Visual Studio 2008. That took me at least 3 hours to install. But Richard Fennell had the solution and that helped me to evade that situation. Here is the solution: http://blogs.blackmarble.co.uk/blogs/rfennell/archive/2007/12/01/intellisense-not-working-in-visual-studio-2008.aspx UPDATED As it turns out this was only part of the solution. The real problem was the integration with ReSharper - here is how to solve it.Process Explorer - a good tool
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