This is a short summary of the talks during the second day of Scandinavian Web Developers Conference in Stockholm, June 3, 2010. Please note that it is a very short summary with abbreviations and contexts that might only make sense to me (if even that). Read more...
This is a short summary of the talks during the first day of Scandinavian Web Developers Conference in Stockholm, June 2 2010. Please note that it is a very short summary with abbreviations and contexts that might only make sense to me (if even that). Read more...
Coming from a Windows and .NET background, I had some trouble understanding how to interact with the ListView control and context menu creation in Android. Context menus are supposed to be shown on your mobile device when you touch/click the screen and hold on for a longer time. So here is how to determine which item is long-clicked and how to show a context menu for it. Read more...
[This does not work as decribed anymore, and it probably never was meant to by Microsoft. I've moved on to SugarSync for my cloud storage needs, even though they don't either support WebDAV.] Actually, I stumbled upon this when I decided to try out Office 2010 beta. I haven't found any official documentation about how to connect to Windows Live SkyDrive with WebDAV (or any API), so I'm not sure how well supported this will be in the future. If you find any word about this from Microsoft, please let me know in the comments. The good news is that it works. The bad news is that it is very slow, but being 25 GB for free I guess you get what you pay for speed-wise (understandably). Read more...
Scott Guthrie's first visit to Sweden was of course nothing I was going to miss. It sounded especially interesting since the top was Visual Studio 2010, ASP.NET 4.0 and Silverlight 4.0, none of which I thought had gotten due attention at TechEd Europe in Berlin last month. This is the man that co-invented ASP.NET and more recently the MVC framework on top of ASP.NET. Would he wear that red tennis t-shirt that has become his signature? Yes! And the presentation was well worth waiting for also. Read more...
So I have finally found some time to experiment with Windows Azure. My starting-point is that I'm a freelance developer that needs hosting services in order to try out several different ideas of my own. I first wanted to get a better understanding of what a virtual machine looks like in Windows Azure. What is it exactly? I know it's a Microsoft Windows Server box running on Hyper-V, at least that is what Microsoft has told me. But then what? Read on to discover some of my findings. Note, however, that I'm not an expert and I'm sure that some of my findings and questions could be answered by reading documentation somewhere but I like to get my hands dirty by looking under the hood. Read more...
This problem really had me worried for a few hours today. I was working as usual on my recently purchased Dell XPS Studio 435MT when all of the sudden the network died. I have a cable connection to a switch, which is connected to an Asus router which is then connected to an ADSL provider. So I started to investigate my cabling and restarting switch and router, but nothing helped. I then verified that my network was ok by starting my backup laptop and it did get an internet connection so everything was fine there. Read more...
So the last day of TechEd is over. After a full week, my brain is a little tired. The last day doesn't have the same energy as the other days. I find it somewhat unfortunate. The lunch was only a bag with sandwich, salad and stuff. The lunch break is shortened and only one session after lunch. Of course, people want to go home since I assume their brains are as tired as mine. But I did manage to retrieve some previously unknown facts for Silverlight. Read more...
Half time has passed and it is time to secure the most valuable knowledge before the week has ended. The tactics of session selection is complex. You could go for the topics that interest you the most, but since all of the breakout sessions are being recorded I would recommend to go more on the speaker than the subject. That is, do you recognize the speaker name as someone who usually presents with passion, knowledge and wit, choose that session even if the actual topic isn't your highest priority. Read more...
Day three at TechEd was the best one this far. Maybe getting better at selecting good sessions and speakers, which is always somewhat of a science in itself. The food is great, even better than in Barcelona. After some glitches with queuing to the lunch rooms the first day, everything has run smoothly. Warm food buffet style with vegetables and rolls. Very tasty indeed. Read more...