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Amazon Web Services abbreviations Cheat sheet

admin — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 06:30:37 +0000

Abbreviations are effective while talking with experts on a common domain, but for the rest of the world they are terrible and often more humiliating than effective! In my opinion abbreviations work as a great Master suppression technique! There are no better way than to start throwing abbreviations over the table if you want to feel superior to colleagues [...]

Understanding features in Scrum – The never ending feature

admin — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:13:27 +0000

A couple of years back I blogged about the difference between features and user stories in Scrum, you can read the whole article here. Since then there has been allot of discussions among Scrum enthusiasts on the topic, where my article has been referenced, eg this discussion on StackExchange.com. My understanding on the differences between [...]

A testable user story

admin — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 11:54:55 +0000

5 steps GTD weekly review

Pål Eie — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 06:13:55 +0000

This article should be seen in relation with my previous checklist post. Finding an effectiv daily and weekly work rythm is essential to obtain productivity and replace a stressful reactive career with a proactive career where you set the agenda, avoid firefighting and finish the tasks you define as important, not what everybody else defines [...]

How to get Windows Phone 7.8 right away

Pål Eie — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 05:56:51 +0000

The roll-out of Windows Phone 7.8 has begun, but when you will actually receive this update for you phone, is very hard to tell. It could take week or even months before they decide it's your turn! In case you are eager like me, you can easily get the upgrade from Windows Phone 7.5 to [...]

Solving: Automatic migration was not applied because it would result in data loss

Pål Eie — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 07:34:34 +0000

Working with Entity Framework and automatic migrations, you might stumble into this error: Automatic migration was not applied because it would result in data loss The error occurs during a update-database call in the Package Manager Console. To decide how you want to solve this issue, you first need to understand why Entity Framework complains [...]

Extension methods in 60 seconds!

Pål Eie — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 08:36:17 +0000

Extension methods enables you to hook up extra methods to an already existing (and possibly sealed) class, without the need of subclassing or changing the original class. Lets say I have a class from a third party vendor I use, which contains information on persons However, I might have some situations where I like to [...]

Accessing Git over SSH on non-default port on Windows 7

Pål Eie — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 21:34:52 +0000

This is more a note-to-self than anything else, but making git work on non-default ssh port without cleaning and reconfiguring your local repo was not quite as straight forward as I thought. The config change is not related to GIT but to SSH actually! Leave your local config file .git as they were, and go [...]

Visual editor vi explained

Pål Eie — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 18:35:11 +0000

Visual Editor (vi) is a great editor installed on all (?) UNIX and Linux systems including popular distributions like Ubuntu, Fedora, Linux Mint etc. You might as well learn it now, instead of waiting until KDE or Gnome crashes one day and you have to learn it the hard way... The good thing is that [...]

Changing default SSH port on Ubuntu

Pål Eie — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 18:18:58 +0000

If you look into the recommendation regarding running your SSH server on default port 22, or chaing it to another port number. Why do you might want to do that? It's basically a simple and effective form of security through obscurity. The simple explanation: If your SSH server isn't on port 22 it's far less likely to [...]

From on-premise solutions to Azure with ASP.Net MVC 4 and Sql Azure

Pål Eie — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 20:11:50 +0000

Windows Azure is an Internet-scale computing and services platform hosted in Microsoft data centers. It includes a number of features with corresponding developer services which can be used individually or together. Windows Azure is about to change the IT infrastructure of the average IT company. Azure offers the whole range from Iaas (Infrascture as a Service) [...]

Windows Azure publish errors

Pål Eie — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 20:09:51 +0000

During setup of a new Publish Profile from Visual Studio 2012 to Azure, you might experience the following error: Publish com object that has been separated from its underlying rcw cannot be used The problem can be seen during "Validate Connection". Solution: Restart Visual Studio 2012 Select Publish again Select "Manage Profiles" and delete all [...]

Cynefin Framework in the context of agile vs. waterfall

Pål Eie — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 21:37:34 +0000

The Cynefin Framework was developed by Dave Snowden back in 1999, and has since then been used in numerous situations and businesses to describe problems, situations and systems. The Cynefin Framework is a practical application of complexity theory to management science. The framework helps managers determine the prevailing operative context, enabling appropriate choices and decisions [...]

Playing Last.FM radio on Squeezebox outside UK, US and Germany

Pål Eie — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:28:28 +0000

Due to usage rights Last.FM only supports music streaming on Squeezebox in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. For the rest of us this is a real hassle! As a paying customer I never settled with this idea, and have struggled to find a way around these limitations, and with some extra testing I finally [...]

Timeboxing in Scrum

Pål Eie — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:06:23 +0000

The concept of timeboxing in Scrum is a critical factor for success. Without any timeboxing we quickly end up with inefficient development process, too much overhead and very low velocity. From day one it is therefore important to use the time boxing in Scrum as an effective tool to keep the teams velocity as high as possible. [...]

Troubleshooting Squeezebox network connections

Pål Eie — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:21:39 +0000

Troubleshooting network connection errors on your Squeezebox is hard! Once the Squeezebox Duet is fully configured it is important to remember that you actually have two devices connected to your network: The Squeezebox player/receiver and the Squeezebox Duet controller! If you eg. change network provider, router etc. you can easily set up your controller again, [...]

Scrum is like a game of Backgammon

Pål Eie — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 14:05:36 +0000

The first time I learned the rules of backgammon, I was quite surprised by the simplicity of the rules. But as I read some more about backgammon I quickly came across the saying: "Backgammon: A minute to learn a life-time to master", and as I started playing more and more I came across new rules [...]

Five key principles to mitigate risk

Pål Eie — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 13:30:23 +0000

Releasing new software will always involve some risk of failure whether you do it small incremental releases, or you do it in large cycles with comprehensive testing. There are however some key principles that will help you lower your risk of failure, principles which are easy enough to remember, but which we often don't follow [...]

Memoization using generics – Part 2

Pål Eie — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:54:00 +0000

This is Part 2 of my series on Memoization. In Part 1 I described the basic principles behind memoization, and showed some examples on how to create an effective generic method to do memoization of methods with zero and one parameter. In this post I will show how to do memoization of methods with two parameters [...]

Installing updates on Ubuntu & Linux Mint

Pål Eie — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 19:02:09 +0000

Update Manager is a program that updates all installed software and their associated packages, with important software updates for security or recommended patches. The Update Manager checks for updates regularly and gives you much of the same advatadges as the loved and hated Windows Update functionality in W7. I see however that a lot of [...]

Checklists in software development

Pål Eie — Tue, 03 May 2011 20:00:33 +0000

I guess a big percent of the developers reading my blog have stopped reading already, another big percentage probably still reads, but for the sole purpose to find out what's wrong with this stupid f*** who mentions the words checklists and software development in the same sentence! http://utihagen.com/?p=116 For those how have already stopped reading, [...]

Features/Epics vs. user stories in Scrum

Pål Eie — Sun, 01 May 2011 18:01:12 +0000

UPDATE: This post has become very popular lately, and has been referenced on several discussion forums. Please also read my follow-ups to clarify the subject even more: Follow-up 1: A testable user story Follow-up 2: Understanding features in Scrum As Scrum has grown in popularity, the concept of user stories has made its way from [...]

Log4Net for noobs

Pål Eie — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 13:41:14 +0000

Log4Net is a fairly old framework for logging, but it still serves it's purpose well! A couple of years back I wrote a tutorial on how to use Log4Net, today I stumbled across it, and I am quite pusseled that it is still as relevant today as it was back then. For those looking for [...]

Debugging an application hang or freeze

Pål Eie — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 10:52:50 +0000

A sudden freeze in an application can in some cases be a rather cumbersome problem to solve. Many times we don't have any indications why the application freezes no matter if is a Java, C# or C++ application, web site or dll. In some cases we might have a log file to help us look [...]

LightWord compatibility with IE 9

Pål Eie — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 12:35:21 +0000

The LightWord Theme for WordPress has some compaitiblity issues with IE 9. When you try to view a page using the LightWord them, all headers so for half a second, and then disappears. This happens both on single-page and main-page view. Luckily the solution is a quick fix! The problem is a JavaScript file called [...]

Getting started with Flattr

Pål Eie — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 13:11:51 +0000

Flattr is reminiscent of Digg or perhaps Facebook Like buttons – but this time with real money. Here I give an introduction to what it is and how to use it, both as a web site owner and a user.Up until now, PayPal has been one of the best ways to donate money, but the [...]

The future of Caliburn. Is Caliburn dead?

Pål Eie — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 07:54:43 +0000

Those who have followed Caliburn over the past 6-8 months have probably heard alot about Caliburn.Micro as well. Whenever somebody has tweeted about getting started with Caliburn, Rob Eisenberg has quickly guided them to Caliburn.Micro. You don't need to be a rocket scientist to figure out that he has his reasons!Even though I have had [...]

Code segments and syntax highlighting in Confluence

Pål Eie — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 10:37:50 +0000

Yesterday during a documentation session I wanted to add several SQL-queries in a Confluence post. Of course Confluence supports code segments with highlighting etc through the Confluence New Code Macro. It's easy enough to get started with the macro, but specifying parameters turned out to be very poorly documented. This post will hopefully help fill [...]

Whats new in ReSharper 6

Pål Eie — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 06:10:47 +0000

With the introduction of ReSharper 6, JetBrains proves once again that they are able to surprise us with new and exciting features we just got to have! Lets look at some of the new functionality that's available in ReSharper 6.The biggest step in ReSharper 6 is the support for CSS and JavaScript with features like: [...]

Patching or updating a single dll in a release

Pål Eie — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 16:31:40 +0000

Ever had the need to update a release with a minor change to one dll? These steps allow you to update a single dll in a installation from msi etc. Note that all steps are necessary to avoid problems with mismatch in dll references, manifests etc. Trying to update a single dll without these steps [...]

Missing designer support for XAML and WPF in Visual Studio

Pål Eie — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 09:04:23 +0000

Today I came across the following error opening a WPF XAML file in Visual Studio: There is no editor available for 'xxx'. Make sure the application for the file type (.xaml) is installed You could get the same kind of error for aspx: There is no editor available for 'xxx'. Make sure the application for [...]

How to succeed with WPF and Silverlight (Slides from NNUG)

Pål Eie — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 07:20:11 +0000

The slides from my Norwegian .Net User Group (NNUG) speech is now available at Slideshare! How to succeed with WPF and Silverlight View more presentations from Pål Eie. The source code is available here!

RSSReader example code from my NNUG speech (WPF and Caliburn)

Pål Eie — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 16:00:16 +0000

November 24 I presented Caliburn and Caliburn.Micro at the .Norwegian .Net User Group community meeting in Stavanger. In my speech I tried to sum up some of the advantages of using a robust framwork when doing developing in Silverlight or WPF, framworks like: MVVM Light, Caliburn or Caliburn.Micro. The source code from my speech can [...]

ISA Server error

Pål Eie — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 18:35:10 +0000

Struggled with following error yesterday: Error The request failed with HTTP status 407: Proxy Authentication Required (The ISA Server requires authorization to fulfill the request. Access to th Web Proxy filter is denied) This turned out to be due to the fact that I use a central proxy server. The error comed up each time [...]

Sending parameters with Caliburns ActionMessage

Pål Eie — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 12:18:17 +0000

For the last two days we have been struggling with a rather peculiar problem in a Caliburn solution. In a ResourceDictionary we had defined a Popup with a ListBox containing some textblocks and buttons. The buttons are bound to a Presenter (Caliburn v1.1), and we tried to pass a parameter with the Message. The parameter [...]

Linq performance, Count() vs Any()

Pål Eie — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 06:05:40 +0000

I just came across some very interesting information. Every used the following statement: The problem here is the Count() statement which can potentially be very inefficient, as it traverse the whole list to calculate a value. But we reallly don't need the exact count, in most cases we just need to know if there are [...]

Upgrading Caliburn

Pål Eie — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:58:16 +0000

This last week I have looked into more details on how to upgrade a Caliburn v1 project to Caliburn v2. Marco Amendola wrote a very nice post on this back in January 2010, but the Caliburn naming conventions have change a bit since then, and as seen from the checkin-ins, but hopefully not too many [...]

A visual presentation of Caliburns popularity

Pål Eie — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 09:02:35 +0000

With a little tweaking on Google Analytics, I managed to come up with a map overlay of all page view related to Caliburn: The top 10 contries are: United States United Kingdom Germany Australia Sweden Poland Canada India Russia Norway Quite surprised that Germany, Sweden and Poland is that high on the list ! Top [...]

IPhone summer

Pål Eie — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 05:33:05 +0000

Summer vacation and IPhone is a good combination. Here are ten of my favorite IPhone Apps for a great vacation while travelling in Norway: Ship Tracking. Keep track of ships nearby! Star Walk. For nice summer nights. The most incredible IPhone App I have ever seen! Facebook. Well speaks for it selves. TripIt. Keep track of all your [...]

Double-clicking Visual Studio solution files in Windows 7

Pål Eie — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 06:57:16 +0000

I guess I am not the only one annoyed by the fact that I could not open Visual Studio by double-clicking a solution file. Finally I looked into this problem and first found a simple, but not satisfying solution: By setting Visual Studio to not run as an administrator. But if you ever tried running Visual Studio [...]

Using the AutoCompleteBox in the WPF Toolkit

Pål Eie — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 19:36:31 +0000

In this blog post I will look into the AutoCompleteBox in the WPF Toolkit, added in the february release of the WPF Toolkit. The AutoCompleteBox works, just the way I had expected it, but it actually adds a couple of more features than what I would have expected. Only one dll is needed to use the [...]

Unit testing Caliburn applications in NUnit

Pål Eie — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 20:42:01 +0000

This is part three in my series on Caliburn, if you haven't please read Part 1: Getting started with Caliburn and Part 2: Multiple Views on one ViewModel. In this post I will look into the unit testing features of Caliburn and try to give a quick introduction to the essentials of what you need [...]

Optional parameters in C# 4.0

Pål Eie — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 21:49:32 +0000

A while back I blogged about the great features of the Dynamic Language Runtime introduced in .Net 4.0. Today I will look into another great feature introduced in C# 4.0, namely the new named and optional parameters. If you are familiar with C++, you have probably used optional parameters earlier, but C# has missed this feature [...]

Splash screen in WPF

Pål Eie — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 11:09:14 +0000

Remember the time when adding a splash screen to application was a hassel? In WPF this is now extremely simply, follow these few steps, and you splash screen is available in your WPF application! Steps: Add your desired splash image to your WPF project Click the image in the solution explorer Set Build Action to [...]

Running NUnit in an STA thread

Pål Eie — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 22:42:45 +0000

While unit testing a WPF Caliburn application, I bumped into the following error: The calling thread must be STA and I ended up with a cross-thread exception. When diving into this problem I found that TestDriver.Net actually runs in STA (acronym for Singel Thread Apartment) by default, but NUnit is not! It is however a fairly simple configuration change to [...]

Converting from Blogger to WordPress

Pål Eie — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:31:10 +0000

This week I started the hard shift from my old Blogger blog to my new WordPress blog on my new domain ISerialized.com. There are a couple of aspects of such a shift that makes this a hard decision to do: Allot of hard work Leaving the old familiar Blogger tool Learning WordPress Trying to convert [...]

How to unit test private methods in C# using NUnit

Pål Eie — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:16:00 +0000

Ever had the need to unit test a private method? Ever change a private method to public just to able to write a test for it? You are definitely not alone! A couple of weeks back I had a very interesting discussions with a very good colleague of mine: "What to do if I want to unit test [...]

The is keyword: Yet another hidden treasure of C#

Pål Eie — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 23:43:00 +0000

A while back i blogged about the yield keyword and called it a hidden treasure of C# as I seldom see it used, and many senior developers never use it! Today, I came across a similar one, namely the is-keyword. And frankly, I had actually forgotten about myself, even though I have used it in the [...]

Daily Stand-Ups in Scrum

Pål Eie — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:18:00 +0000

I just came across a great summary of the daily stand-ups in scrum, written by Joakim Karlsson. I guess most Scrum teams start out with good intentions and focus in the begging, but as time goes by, we start falling into the old "around the table" reporting habit to the project manager, the Scrum master [...]

Dynamic Language Runtime in .Net 4.0

Pål Eie — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:52:00 +0000

The upcoming .Net 4.0 contains many new and exciting features, in this blog post I will describe some of the new features of the DLR including the dynamic keyword. To quote MSDN: The dynamic language runtime (DLR) is a runtime environment that adds a set of services for dynamic languages to the common language runtime [...]

Why use Custom Control instead of User Control in WPF?

Pål Eie — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:28:00 +0000

When I first started experimenting with WPF I was quite confused with the new custom control introduced in WPF. I did a quick Google search but never got the full understanding of the difference, but I read somewhere that in most cases a custom control was not necessary, so I just focused on the regular [...]

What’s new in WPF 4.0

Pål Eie — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:06:00 +0000

Microsoft has just release a series of short (15 minutes long) how-to videos for WPF 4.0 introducing the various new features of WPF 4.0. The following videos are currently available: New Windows Presentation Foundation Controls WPF 4: The Visual State Manager Touch comes to Windows Presentation Foundation WPF4: Graphics Enhancements Binding in Windows Presentation Foundation [...]

Getting started with Caliburn Part 2: Multiple Views on one ViewModel

Pål Eie — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 04:48:00 +0000

The documentation and tutorials on Caliburn is still very limited, and is one of the biggest obstacles getting started with Caliburn right now. In this post I hope to fill some of the gaps I have seen in the lack of documentation by showing how you can easily hook up two Views to one ViewModel. Caliburn is rapidly [...]

Extension methods in 60 seconds

Pål Eie — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 03:41:00 +0000

A quick start guide to yield return and yield break

Pål Eie — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 04:27:00 +0000

The yield statement was introduced in .Net 2.0, but I am a bit surprised that I meet many senior developers who has never used yield return (and yield break)! For some strange reason, yield has become some kind of hidden treasure in .Net. Through this post, I hope I can show some simple examples, and [...]

Working with globalization, string parsing and number formats in C#

Pål Eie — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 04:24:00 +0000

On a project I attended a couple of years ago, we struggled a lot with string parsing, date formats and cultures. The product was shipped to among others China, Japan and US, and getting your code to work seamless in all culture formats can be a bit of a hassle if you are not fully familiar with [...]

SqueezeBox Server won’t scrobble to LastFm

Pål Eie — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 22:05:00 +0000

For the second time this week, I saw that my Squeezebox Server won't scrobble my played (and loved) tracks to last.fm! I started investigating, and in the server log of my Squeezebox server, I found the following errors: Slim::Networking::SqueezeNetwork::_error (447) Unable to login to SN: Couldn't resolve IP address for: www.mysqueezebox.com Slim::Networking::SqueezeNetwork::_init_error (180) Unable to [...]

Getting started with Caliburn

Pål Eie — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:18:00 +0000

The lack of documentation and examples of usage is one of the biggest obstacles getting started with Caliburn. I hope this article can help somewhat! One of my biggest fears when starting a new project is heading in the wrong direction and not realizing that we are headed for disaster until it's too late. Due [...]

Closing in on 20 000 reader on my article at CodeProject!!!

Pål Eie — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 22:13:00 +0000

Back in 2006 when I started working with .Net, I posted an article at The Code Project, where I wrote about Sending parameters at thread startup. My competence with .Net has grown rapidly since then, but I check back today to check my profile at The Code Project, and realized that my article was read 20 000 times!Checked Google [...]

Adding C# and ASP.Net to Blogger (Part 2)

Pål Eie — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 03:43:00 +0000

In one of my earlier posts I recommended using Windows Live Writer and the "Paste from Visual Studio" plugin to add code to your blog. But two days of struggling with layout I gave up, and stumbled upon the C# code formatter which is very easy to use! To add C#, VB, ASP.Net etc, just following these [...]

Memoization using generics and lambda expressions

Pål Eie — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 03:00:00 +0000

Memoization is a hidden treasure of programming techniques. Most developers has a good understanding of caching and use it to optimize queries, but why even do calculations on cached or live data, when you don’t need to calculate at all? This is Part 1 of my series of memoization, you can find Part 2 here. The [...]

Adding C# and ASP.Net code to WordPress

Pål Eie — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:22:00 +0000

In the case of WordPress, adding C#, ASP.Net and similar code is very simple. Just use the sourcode tag in the following way (discard the underscores): [_sourcecode language="csharp"] string s = “Hello World”; System.Console.WriteLine(s); [_/sourcecode] And it will turn up like this: Note: This functionality require the following plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/syntaxhighlighter/

Adding C# and ASP.Net code to Blogger

Pål Eie — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:04:00 +0000

Many developers ask, how can I paste C# code in my blog? I have looked into several ways of doing this, my verdict: Use Windows Live Writer! Update: Please see my second blog post about an updated evaluation of Blogger and C# ASP.Net Windows Live Writer comes with Live Messenger, and has a very easy to [...]

Struggling with impedance mismatch, obstacles and technical debt in Scrum projects

Pål Eie — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:30:00 +0000

Lean processes such as Scrum has no requirements regarding specific software design methodology, but on the other hand an agile software process requires an agile code base! When planning one sprint, we don’t really know what the next sprint will bring. The backlog might change radically before the next sprint, and if the code base [...]

Twingly and AdSense: My “incredibly rich without working” idea

Pål Eie — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:28:00 +0000

The idea: As a blogger I can add AdSense to my blog to make money, based on hits and clicks. But the dollar per click ratio is rather low, so to become incredibly rich I need a blog with MANY hits per day. So how can I do this? I can start blogging, like I [...]

Focus on the product backlog and business value of Scrum projects

Pål Eie — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:12:00 +0000

While struggeling on a customer project, I came across a post in Eric Lee's blog The root of all evil in Scrum We are struggeling on a customer project to get scrum working. I joined the team a couple of months back, when they had allready been scrumming for a while, but I found a SCRUM [...]

Accessing Sharepoint 2007 from Office 2010 Technical Preview

Pål Eie — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:38:00 +0000

I have really struggled with my Office 2010 Technical Preview the last few days. Most of the Office 2010 is working really good, but accessing word and excel documents located on a Sharepoint 2007 server, has not been easy! I had to save a local copy, and then open the local copy to be able [...]

Version 1.0 of Windows 7 code pack

Pål Eie — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 22:04:00 +0000

Today the Windows 7 code pack version 1.0 was released. With the code pack you can start using the new features in Windows 7 from your own .Net 3.5 applications, eg. progress bars, icon overlay, Thumbnails toolbars +++ This page includes all the features, as well as a few quick 2 minutes videos of the [...]

Getting started with Windows 7 (Tips and tricks)

Pål Eie — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:21:00 +0000

One of the biggest problem with each new version of a framework or OS is getting known with all the new features and functions. I personally never have the time to sit down and read pages upon pages each time I upgrade, but today I came across a really good page with quick videos of [...]

Setting up Gmail on Windows Mobile 6.1

Pål Eie — Fri, 29 May 2009 05:32:00 +0000

Accoring to this article, it should be rather straight forward to setup Gmail with IMAP on WM 6.1. I manged to this on my HTC TYTN II when I was running WM 6.0, but after upgrading to WM 6.1, I never had the choice during installtion to avoid automatically retrieving setting, so I was forced [...]

Upgrading Windows 7 Beta to Windows 7 RC

Pål Eie — Tue, 19 May 2009 16:31:00 +0000

A couple of months ago I attended a MSDN Live session in Stavanger Norway, where I talked to a Microsoft representative regarding the Windows 7 beta-program. To avoid too much extra work, I considered waiting for the RC before installing the Windows 7, but based on the "guarantee" from Microsoft that upgrading for Windows 7 [...]

Logging in .Net: a short study

Pål Eie — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:11:00 +0000

I have been using different third-party logging tools for both .Net (C# and C++) and Java, but in my current project we are using a custom logging tool. Don't ask me why we have written our own framework for this, but I guess it's partly because we have worked on our current code base since [...]

Using icons in windows applications

Pål Eie — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:44:00 +0000

Today I came across the same problem that I have had many times earlier: I need a new icons in an application, this time for a refresh button. So what do I do? I Google it ofcourse and get hundreds of hits to all kind of crappy icon libraries, most of the costing me a [...]