Speaking about Windows Phone 7, Android and iOS in Stockholm on the 14th of...
On Tuesday, February the 14th, I'm speaking about Windows Phone 7, Android and iOS development for the Rich Application Development Interest Group (TRADIG) in Stockholm.This is what I will talk...
View ArticleOnly 10 AU more to go!
Just had the following email from the New Horions Team:"New Horizons on Approach: 22 AU Down, Just 10 to GoFew spacecraft travel 10 astronomical units during their entire mission. But with New Horizons...
View ArticleTweetDeck : part 1 Conception
If you don’t know TweetDeck , it’s a very popular app to check Twitter. It is created with Adobe Air for the Desktop versions(Windows,Mac) and native for mobile. TweetDeck was integrated to twitter.Inc...
View ArticleSharePoint administration pages
A quick note - possibly "note to self" - about how you can add administration pages to central administration ("CA"). Start with an empty SharePoint project.Add a mapped folder - to Template/admin.Add...
View ArticleIntroducing easy-to-use Web Scraper : WebHarvy
Check out WebHarvy Web Scraper to see how easy it is to scrape online data to an XML, CSV or TSV file. WebHarvy Web Scraper also allows you to export the extracted data to an SQL database. You may...
View ArticleSweden Windows Azure Group (SWAG) Meeting, 20th September in Stockholm
For the first SWAG meeting of 2012 Ludwig Ahrle and Mikael Eriksson will present two developer focused sessions covering the work they have been doing for Curvande on the Windows Azure platform. This...
View ArticleSharePoint Powershell try catch gotcha
SharePoint 2010 developers love Powershell. It really is a huge step forward. If you still haven't started to use it, do so. But I got bit the other day, when I added a try-catch block to my code. See...
View ArticleMicrosoft Press Deal of the Day - 13/Feb/2012 - Beyond Bullet Points
Todays' Microsoft Press Deal of the Day at http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780735627352.do is Beyond Bullet Points"Unlock the amazing story buried in your presentation—and forget boring,...
View ArticleWindows 8 ListBox 2 ListView
One of the new data controls in Windows 8 Metro is the ListView. The ListView does the same thing as the ListBox, plus more. In this post, I’ll build on the TwitterClient, from my previous post:...
View ArticleSome non-geek blog lovin’
I promised my wife I’d link to her blog, so here it is: Running on Veggies: Adventures in Healthy Living Back to the geeky stuff shortly!
View ArticleCheating at SharePoint presentations
I gave a SharePoint presentation at Norwegian SharePoint Community last week. I wanted to have as smooth a presentation as possible by minimizing page load times. The easiest way to do this, is to...
View Article2012 Exciting Year in Microsoft Space
We’re only in February, but the rest of the 10 months left in 2012 look to be very interesting in the Microsoft space with products that Developers and IT Pros will find intriguing. Redmond Channel...
View ArticleClean Code: Writing Readable Unit Tests with Domain Specific Languages
I'm currently reading Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship by 'Uncle Bob' Martin, which includes a section on writing readable unit tests. I've had an article about using Domain...
View ArticleUpdated release for XPMore
There is an updated release of XPMore at http://xpmore.codeplex.com/releases/view/82245XPMore is an excellent free utility for managing Windows 7 Virtual Machines (XP Mode and any other). I used to run...
View ArticleAPress Deal of the Day - 14/Feb/2012 - Beginning C# Object-Oriented Programming
Today's $10 Deal of the Day from Apress at http://www.apress.com/9781430235309 is Beginning C# Object-Oriented Programming."Beginning C# Object-Oriented Programming brings you into the modern world of...
View ArticleToday is Patch Tuesday (again!)
May I remind you that today being the second Tuesday of the month is Patch Tuesday. Later today, Microsoft will issue more patches. Several of the updates are rated critical, so patch your development...
View ArticleWindows application to a cross-platform web-based solution without a rewrite
A Windows healthcare application for clinics and physicians needed a cost-effective way to accommodate all operating systems without reducing the existing functionality and security. Since users use a...
View ArticleIndexing 2007 profile and mysite from Sharepoint 2010
While working with a customer, we had this interesting requirement related to SP 2010 content migration. The migration process would take its own sweet time, but we wanted to migrate people search...
View ArticleREDUCED SQL Azure Pricing!
You asked for it, you got it! To help meet the needs of existing and future SQL Azure customers, Microsoft has announced that they are lowering the price of SQL Azure, and as well introducing a 100MB...
View ArticleAnnouncing PowerShell Saturday Columbus
The first ever PowerShell Saturday will be taking place at the local Microsoft office in Columbus, OH on March 10, 2012. This is a little bit of a delayed announcement as the event has already...
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