I had the unfortunate experience of having to use Subversion again after using Git for a long time. It is amazing how fast I can forget. After renaming a directory at the prompt, and the agony that goes with it, I decided to switch back to Git. $ mv requester sampler # svn agony after [...]

I have been developing frameworks for different applications mostly games for over 10 years. Over this time I have made some really bad decisions and wrong turns, fortunately I have learned and gained some knowledge that always made my next framework a bit better. Design patterns One of my first lessons was that I don’t [...]

Bad argument up for scrutiny here. There are many different kinds of invalid arguments and it’s a great asset to be able to detect them quickly. Here’s a fictive situation, developers and the person they report to – the project leader. A: This code will render a very high number of database calls and will [...]

At Öredev 2009 I first learned about Christopher Averys responsibility process model in a seminar about agile adoption strategies. The speaker, Amr Elssamadisy, emphasized the importance of having team members with a good sense of responsibility for the project to be successful. Indeed he said that this is often crucial for success. While the responsibility [...]

Sandcastle is a great open source tool for generation document from your .net code. There is only one problem with this tool, the lack of a proper installation guide. This blog post will give a complete instruction for installing Sandcastle and make it work for .NET 4 Start by downloading the following tools 1)    http://sandcastle.codeplex.com/ [...]

One of the nice features of Oracle Service Bus (OSB) is the ability to test your deployed services through the Test Console in the OSB web console. This is a convenient way of verifying that your basic configuration is correct. When trying out the latest version of OSB 11gR1, I was both surprised and dismayed [...]

One of the great things about Ruby is the community. When something is not working out as well as it could, someone figures out a way to improve it. It used to be difficult to select what gems, Ruby libraries, to use when solving a task that I was not familiar with. This is not [...]

For a little while now, I’ve been playing with Sammy.js, a small framework built on top of jQuery which makes it easier for you to develop single-page web apps. More specifically, the storage plug-in for it looks interesting, with JSON-serialization support and support for the KeyValueObserver pattern. I started playing with Sammy.js with simple local files, [...]

I had Liferay, I had Web Content, I had Tags and I had a problem. Tags were supposed to be automatically added and removed when creating or updating a Web Content article. A quick browse through the source code did not give gave me a direct solution – therefore – as so often – Google [...]

If you are nearby or live here don’t be square! First NUG event in Skåne, Sweden for the fall is on September 16 is one with two agenda entries; Entity Framework and Show & Tell raffle. Dag König from Microsoft DPE Sweden will join us to give the latest info Entity Framework. We will have [...]

In Java you have for quite some time had the Future interface for encapsulating an asynchronous calculation. Cocoa has had the abstract NSOperation class to encapsulate asynchronous operations. NSOperation do not have any facilities for returning a result when done as the Future do, you are left to implement this on your own. Which I [...]

Use jQuery jQuery is the best thing that has happened to Javascript since it got first class functions in version 1.2. The library is elegant, powerful and has exactly the right level of abstraction for working with the DOM. There is nothing more to say. Learn it and use it. Good resources are: the jQuery [...]