Posts about Computing
Document databases are not schema less
This has become a little pet peeve of mine and it’s a bit of a rant. So be warned and exit now :). I’m getting tired of people who are…
Re-installing a Mac and the Peril of the AppStore (for developers)
So my last Mac was my first Mac since the Macintosh LC II (yep that’s how old I am). So I’ve spent most of my time since then in windows…
Mac OS X - Pipe contents into the clipboard
Windows On windows I used to the time when I wanted some output (from a file or command) in the clipboard. or And then I went of and pasted…
Hubot, Slack and Azure deployments - Part 2 - Getting TeamCity to Build
In the first post, Hubot, Slack and Azure deployments – Part 1, we looked at how to get Hubot up and running on Heroku and jacked into Slack…
Exploring It!
Read the book Explore It!: Reduce Risk and Increase Confidence with Exploratory Testing by Elisabeth Hendrickson during the summer. All in…
Nice little cache library for Nancy
Built a little NancyFX app for a customer where multiple browsers now are pulling the Nancy web app. This tunnels trough to the backend…
Podcast I Listen To
I listen to a few podcasts and get a few questions what I listen to, so here is the list. Technology related Hanselminutes Good compact…
Using Polar ProTrainer on Multiple Computers (using dropbox)
I use Polar ProTrainer 5 to track all my physical training (running, underwater rugby, crossfit and so on). I also have multiple computers…
Neat Trace Writer Trick
This is one that my colleague Mattias showed me. When I code SharePoint solutions I’m always to put in some diagnostics logging just so that…
Multiple Exchange Servers in Outlook 2010
In my role as a consultant I’ve many a times been at a customer for months in a row. What happens then (at least for me) is I get a Exchange…
Potential Issues Installing SharePoint 2007 Service Pack 2
A while back Service Pack 2 for SharePoint was released. That’s all good. But unfortunately you might run into some snags installing it…
Getting a hang on twitter
This is just a fairly pointless rant on twitter usage, so if it don’t fall within your sphere of interest, stop reading now! 🙂 A while back…
Converting a Html News Page to RSS
This have been my little weekend project this weekend (ok, some Christmas preparations to). Background As some of you know I play underwater…
Getting into Twitter
Everybody is talking about twitter, tweet this and tweeting that. And I haven’t really got the point yet. So this Saturday during a Chili…
3 Weeks with Windows Server 2008 on My Laptop
A couple of weeks ago I felt that it was time to give my laptop (Dell Latitude D830) a clean install. I’ve been running Vista 64-bit on it…
Consolas Font in Command Prompt
I am a font geek and I just love the Consolas font. I started using Consolas in Visual Studio and now I want it in more places. So I sat out…
Vista updates available
There is two major updates released for Windows Vista, they will probably be rolled up into Vista Service Pack 1, but if you’re like me and…
Vista Battery Saver
Just stumbled upon this little utility at CodePlex: Vista Battery Saver. Installed it on my laptop and it seems very promising. It can be…
OneNote in a Calendar
This guy have pushed the envelope when it comes to using OneNote this (click once) install enables you to see all your OneNote’s in a…
Vista Gems: Snipping Tool
This is probably one of those everyone-else-but-me-alread-know-about-this kinda moments. But in Vista there is a built in snipping tool…
Why did I not know about this feature in IE: Inline AutoComplete
This post by Sean describes what the Inline AutoComplete Feature is and how to enable it. I can not beleive I didn’t know about this! The…
Inline search for IE
While on the subject of additions to Vista this is a must have addition for Internet Explorer. Inline Search! What it does is pretty simple…
Start++ is tha bomb
Back when I was running XP I was a big fan of launchers, personally I really liked Colibri and Launchy. Could never decide winch one I liked…
Hooking Up SubText Blog with Google Analytics
This blog is running SubText as blog engine. It works great, the biggest thing I’m missing is stats. I don’t have many readers but it’s fun…
Create Junction Points Easy in Win XP
I’m rapidly outgrowing one of my disks on which I, among other things, have my audio library. So I really want to move it to another disk…
Telerik r.a.d editor for SharePoint 2007
I’ve used Telerik’s r.a.d Editor Lite for Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 before and I can say that it was not a dissapointment! I…
SharePoint Community Search
Lawrence Lui have set up a nice SharePoint Community Serach at Live.com. Nice going! SharePoint Community Search You can easely set up you…
Visual Studio Extensions for WSS
Finally we released Windows SharePoint Services extension for Visual Studio 2006. Templates available in this release is: Team Site…
Download Virtual Systems from Microsoft
Starting a couple of days ago Microsoft supplies a set of vhd (Virtual Hard Drives) containing MS products for download. I really like this…
My new USB stick
UPDATE 2017-02-04: My guess is that nobody reads this anymore but to be clear. TrueCrypt has been discontinued and is said to have a bunch…
Active Sync in Vista RC2
Windows Mobile Device Center is part of Windows Vista but for some reason isn’t ActiveSync there out of the box. Not in the build I’m…
OWA on Exchange 2007
When I cranked up my Outlook Web Access this morning I was met the new Exchange 2007 GUI. Haven’t had time to play around with it yet but…
Virtual PC 2007 Beta
Virtual PC 2007 Beta is now available and includes support for Windows Vista. Want it? Sign up for it here: https://connect.microsoft.com…
Deprecated Features in SQL Server 2005
I’m reading up a little on SQL Server 2005 and found a couple of deprecated features worth noting. TIMESTAMP – use rowversion instead for…
Foxit Reader - blazing fast
I’ve seen Scott Hanselman blogging about Foxit Reader for reading PDF’s a couple of times. So when Adobe started thier shit about not…
Using VHDMount under Windows XP
I’ve installed Virtual Server 2005 SP2 Beta1 and was thrilled to find the tool VHDMount. It’s used to map up virtual hardrives (vhd’s) as…
Windows Vista RC1 arrived!
Windows Vista RC1 is here, and it’s official!
Long Time No Say
Sooo, this blog been quiet far to long now. I’ve been on vacation and mostly disconnected. So this week has been mostly about starting…
How to view Office Systems 2007
Just returned from TechReady3 in Seattle. Me being a Information Worker consultant with Microsoft I focused on the upcoming Office Systems…
PC De-Crapifier
OEM PC’s usally comes with a lot of crap on them, if you (like me) don’t like that, check out this tool: The PC De-Crapifier Seems awsome!
Microsoft Robotics
This is cool, Microsoft Robotics Studio: ”Microsoft announces the Microsoft Robotics Studio, which offers end-to-end robotics development…
Software vs. Hardware Quote
A great qoute from todays meeting: ”Hardware breakes over time, software is broken from the start”. 🙂
More MSDN coolness
MTPS (Microsoft/TechNet Publishing System) is looking good. Why not build man pages of msdn using it?
MSDN got it going on
There’s a lot of exiting things going on at msdn, like msdn wiki beta. MsdnWiki.Jpg And also a beefed up search functionality and UI for…
To Read
Ever browsed around and felt that this is a page/post you want to read later. For me bookmarking doesn’t really do it, I tend to forget and…
Soccer World Cup 2006 Excel workbook
The soccer world cup of 2006 is about to start in just4 days, I’m starting to get nervous. Luckely I just came across this excel workbook…
Get Office 2007 Beta 2
http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/beta/getthebeta.mspx
Change computer name using wmic
I don’t know if you know, but there is a command line interface (CLI) for WMI and it’s called WMIC! It’s pretty powerful stuff. You don’t…
Lawsuit-o-rama
What’s up with all the idiotic lawsuits now. I’m not primarly taking about the microsoft-google situation. Last week I read that Creating…
Sometimes I really hate computers
About a week and a half ago I sat by my computer att home and all of a sudden the screen went black. So I thougt my monitor broke down again…
Nifty tool for disk usage
Found a nice tool for giving a good overview of what is taking your disk space. Displays the result in a treeview and a treemap. Gives a…
Shrink VPC virtual hard disks
If you’ve been working with Microsoft Virtual PC you probably noted that the virtual hard disks (.vhd files) tend to bulk out on your host…
Security Best Practises for MCMS 2002
Microsoft Content Management Server 2002: Security Best Practises now available at: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId…
PUSHD and POPD
Ever written a .bat-file to do som deploying or such. It’s usally a lot of cd ..-ing to get to the right path and keeping track of the path…
Productivity in Outlook 2003
This Monday I attended a course on how to work more effective in Outlook. The course is based on the philosophy in The 7 Habits of Highly…
Speed up your VPCs
How do you sqeeze every little bit of performance out of your VPC? Well, here’s a nice post by Andrew Connell on the subject.
D-Link junk
The last weeks down times on my blog (as if anybody would have noticed) is on the conscience of my crappy D-Link DI-624 brodband router. It…
Shipping and release schedules
In software today tighter release cycles seems to be the tune. To release something early to a targeted group and then continuous releasing…
Intellisense for Sql scripts
This is an issue that I been wondering about for years, why is there no intellisense for Sql code in Visual Studio (later version). I mean…
This and That 2006-01-29
Sony Reader – Is it the death of the pocket book? Probably not, but pretty cool. Project Elixir Source Code – Microsoft releases the source…
Pimp up my windows
Wanna get that Vista look and feel on your Windows XP system? Or why not Mac OS X appearance? Well, check out this ”Tricking out the desktop…
Google killer?
Hmmm, we’ll se about that but it seems Microsoft is going to pick a fight anyway. I’m talking about the live.com concept. Check out what’s…
Save diskspace using VPC
Since staring at Microsoft I work a lot with VPC’s (Virtual PC) and that really bloated my hard drive. Found this post by Roy Osherove…
TechReady Part I
So guess what, still raining in Seattle. Who’d guess. Anyway, I’ll try to wrap up some of my experiences here. First’s day’s keynote at…
TechReady in Seattle
I’m currently in Seattle attending the Microsoft internal TechReady conferance. I have not been able to blog like I would have wanted and…
Microsoft TDD Guidelines Removed
Microsoft listens to criticism and have removed the tdd page I wrote about in this post. The bad votes on the page tell a pretty clear tail…
Microsoft TDD Guidelines
It’s been spreading trough out the blog sphere. Microsoft released a set of guidelines for test driven development, witch can be found here…
Scrum Plug-in for Visual Studio Team System
I have not gotten around to trying out Microsoft Visual Team System yet, but for you who have and like SCRUM. This Beta 1 release of a Scrum…
Not to self on ASP.NET / SQL Server Performance
Always put the owner in a stored procedure the call: dbo.someStoreProc. http://www.robincurry.org/blog…
Upgraded to DasBlog 1.8 Gold
So, finally got around to update this blog to the latest release of dasblog (1.8 Gold). Now I’m hurrying away to a wedding but when I get…
This and that 2005-08-24
I haven’t exactly spammed this blog over the last couple of weeks, have I. The reason for that is that I’m about to get married soon so I’m…
Does Mort Know We’re Talking About Him Behind His Back?
Once again an awsome post by Phil Haack. Read it!
Fast working hackers
Microsoft added some sort of ”genuine serial number” check for using windows update. Though it was not very taught trough. Cracked in a week…