I am celebrating the Swedish midsummer at Hyppeln in the Gothenburg archipelago. It’s perfect place to rest after the hectic period I’ve had for a while. The project took quite good form during the last part of the week. Feels quite good. At Hyppeln there are almost always some good photo opportunities. I hope to take some photos to post...

As you might have notices the activity on the blog has been quite low for a couple of weeks. This has to do with loads of stuff piling up at work and a fully booked private calender. The new project, that I am involved in at work, is really fun but also one of the most dazed I’ve been in....

Today I found a nice little tool from Google that helps readers of this blog to understand the content of it in a better way. The tool “simply” translates the page, https://www.marcusoft.net/ in this case, into the language of your choice. Pretty cool! I found it when my father told me that some of the nuances of the blog were...

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...

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...

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 Robert I’ve been checking out the Web Service Factory tool from Microsoft’s Patterns and Practices gang. Robert 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...

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...

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...

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...