Entries from May 2010 ↓

I was trying to figure out what text size to use on the Windows Phone to make it readable. After using the 24” monitor where I get a “big ass” phone, also known as a .Pad ,  I realized that it’s not going to work. So I started out a little quest to find some [...]

Executing code asynchronously in C# gives you at least two headaches: the code becomes hard to read and a pain to unit test. Here’s one way to alleviate these pains, using a configurable singleton aptly named “Async”: Async.Execute(() => { // … Console.WriteLine(“We’re running this on a background thread”); // … etc }); That’s the [...]

Cocoa Touch added API for presenting a view controller in a popup bubble in iPhone OS 3.2, the responsible class is named UIPopoverController. One would guess that this new class is a subclass of UIViewController, just like UINavigationController is, but that is not the case. One would also guess that in functionality many ideas for [...]

Update 2010-09-22: Asynchronous fetch which is tested with Awaitility. SNMP is a widely accepted technology and is used in to monitor a wide variety of devices, but as it turns out very few people (at least among java programmers) seems to know anything about how to build snmp based solutions. This post will not discuss [...]

I was trying to make a mockup in Balsamiq for a windows phone 7 series application and thought i needed a few items to get things right. So I started creating the parts needed. The basic phone, with a see-through screen so it’s easy to create panoramas to lay behind. The keyboard variants (there are [...]

Thanks to all of you who attended the Rx Framework seminar tour a couple of weeks ago. I was great to see such interest in the framework. I promised to blog some valuable resources for further learning about Reactive Extensions, so here it goes. Videos To start at the very beginnning, Erik Meijer’s talk at the 2009 [...]

This is just a quick tip on how to perform XSLT-transformations in OSB. Since transforming messages from one format to another is a crucial feature in any ESB you would think that setting it up would be obvious.. That’s what we thought as well, but try as we might, we could not make it work. [...]