Morten Nielsen

Finding Focus: My Journey With Journaling

Hi there! I wanted to share a bit about my journey with journaling and how it has significantly contributed to my ability to focus. If you're like me, you've probably found yourself drifting away during lectures or meetings, only to discover that notes can be a

Unraveling Complexity: Control Factors in Software Development

In 'Unraveling Complexity: Control Factors in Software Development,' we delve into managing software complexity, exploring factors like coupling, cohesion, and unique solutions. Learn strategies to maintain productivity and agility in your projects by controlling these elements effectively.

Productivity

Organize Your Mind: Declutter and don't use it as storage

Hello, fellow tech leaders! As someone who juggles numerous tasks and commitments daily, I've often found myself at the crossroads of productivity and chaos. Over the years, I've learned that structure isn't just a perk but a necessity. A video that has truly resonated

Avoiding the Boil - Strategic Architecture to Prevent Software Complexity

In software development, ignoring creeping complexities can doom projects. In 'Avoiding the Boil - Strategic Architecture to Prevent Software Complexity,' learn how robust architecture can help you side-step inefficiencies and scale effectively. Don't let your project become another boiled frog!

Prisma: A Short Love Story

Explore my journey with Prisma, a powerful ORM tool. From setup to schema configuration, and the challenges I faced with testing, this blog post covers it all. Find out why I had to part ways with Prisma, and share your ORM stories. Dive into 'Prisma: A Short Love Story' now!

Illustration showing test cycles of automated tests vs manual tests

Quality

How Easy-to-Test Systems Elevate Software Quality

Discover how systems designed for easy unit testing not only enhance software quality but also enable safer refactoring and faster development cycles. Dive into the critical role of unit testing in fostering innovation and maintaining robust software architectures.

Randomized testing with Selenium - Click Monkey

Explore 'Click Monkey,' a tool for randomized web testing with Selenium. From sending random inputs to detecting broken links, learn how this innovation simplifies browser testing. Inspired by Chaos Monkeys, this creative approach is a must-try for agile software development.

Detecting broken links for Selenium and webdriver on Node.js

Transform your Node.js app into a link detective with our latest blog post. Discover how to leverage Selenium, Webdriver, and proxy setup to spot broken links and handle errors like a pro. Learn why HTTP status codes are tricky and explore efficient solutions for error detection.

Controlling a browser through Node.js

Discover how to wield the power of Node.js to control browsers seamlessly. Dive into a world where Selenium speaks JavaScript, and PhantomJS dances at your command. Transform your automation strategies with modern tooling that's both efficient and elegant.

Convention based tests using Jasmine preventing common errors in HTML templates

Discover how convention-based testing with Jasmine can prevent common HTML template errors. Learn how to leverage tools like Knockout.js, Sammy.js, and Scaffolt to maintain binding standards, enhance your testing routine, and ensure reliable, bug-free web applications.

Constructing a light-saber - battling a bootstrap multi-select component

Struggling with a slow bootstrap-multiselect component? Learn why building a custom multi-select was a better solution for us, using just 80 lines of JavaScript, and how it improved performance and reduced dependencies. Dive into the details and elevate your coding game!

Switched blog platform

Those of you who follow my RSS feed might have noticed a few updates of old posts. Sorry about that. It's because I've switched blogging platform from WordPress to Ghost.io. Morkeleb.com is now hosted on Ghost.io's infrastructure and I've

Tools

Remapping home and end in mountain lion

So I’m used to a certain behavior for the home and end buttons on my logitech edge keyboard. Jumping to the end or the beginning of the page is not the behavior I expect, so after being stung by this sudden change of the entire screen a few times.

Mac

Changing the default location for screenshots in Mac OS X

Again, an old draft that for some reason never was published. It’s short, but helpful. I got annoyed at where my new Mac put the screenshots I captured. They were on the desktop which I found to be the wrong place for Pictures. I found this helpful page [http:

PowerShell

Running PowerShell scripts from a fileshare

Since I wrote it I’ve started using Parallels and stopped having my powershell scripts in a fileshare. But the information is usefull none the less. I set up my Mac with running all my .Net development in a VirtualBox environment. I share my source-code directory to the guest OS

JavaScript

View source on the IPad

The IPad is a nice tool for surfing the web from your sofa. However if your like me and sometimes want to check out how certain things are done it’s missing a vital feature. It’s missing a view source functionallity. So I Googled for it and found the

Continuous Delivery

Why not use puppet for installing applications?

I was asked this question during a talk I had on Continous delivery I held at GTUG Stockholm (which apparentlly is changing its name). “Why not use puppet for installing the application software”. I was a bit perplexed, because, were not installing our software using puppet, and to me, puppet

Testing

Switching from MSTest to NUnit script

We’ve been using MSTest for quite some time but now it’s time for change. First of the reasons for changing unit testing framework. We’re now building with Hudson/Jenkins which NUnit integrates better with. According to rumours NUnit is faster than MSTest. In the long run hopefully

Testing

Running tests on filechange

Ever since I saw a video of Corey Haines [http://coreyhaines.com/] running Autospec I’ve been looking for an option to automatically run my tests when files change. So here is a list of different solutions. I found a python package that allows me to do what I wanted

Microsoft

System.ArgumentException when drawing bitmaps in WPF from WinForms

We’ve been having this annoying crash going on for a while. We’ve seen it show up in Eqatec Analytics [http://eqatec.com/Analytics/Home.aspx] for a while, but since the stacktrace never had any of our code in it, we we’re a bit perplexed of what

Conferences

Talking at Internet Dagarna in Stockholm

I’m talking about RemoteX HTML5 offline capable web app at Internet Dagarna [http://www.internetdagarna.se/ind12/program/seminarium/132] in Stockholm the 22-24th October. Feel free to come and listen

analytics

A poor mans metrics

Everyone wants metrics these days, but it takes a while to invest in good quality metrics for your software. However, if your running a javascript based single app page, or well mostly any webpage. You could use Google Analytics to get some basic quality metrics. What can we measure? So

Microsoft

MessageQueue.Send() crashes if called by multiple threads

I found this bug which was caused in our REST-API at RemoteX which was a bit strange. It was an InvalidCastException being thrown inside Microsofts MSMQ libraries. So a quick Google found this following reported issue: https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/94943/messagequeue-send-crashes-if-called-by-multiple-threads In short, in a threaded

Tools

Travis-CI soon in beta

There is this ci project I’ve been following with some interest, sadly I havn’t had the chance to try it out since it’s only for open-source software. It seems however, that that is about to change! They are opening up a beta access program for Travis-CI, which

linq2sql

When working with dbml files: Error 396 Name cannot begin with the '<' character, hexadecimal value 0x3C. Line 2, position 2.

Just ran into an issue where I couldn’t open a dbml file. Didn’t find any good answers on Google so I thought I’d share. I broken the dbml.layout file by not cleaning it properly during a merge, all I had to do was delete the content