Morten Nielsen

RemoteX

Microsoft + RemoteX = Software + Services

This August Microsoft wrote a piece on RemoteX Applications. The article highlights the benefits of Software + Services, and using Microsoft technologies to develop it. Being a central player behind the solution for RemoteX Applications, it’s always great to get the kind acknowledgement of the resulting product. Event if it

GTD

Getting Things Done And Code

In Getting Things Done there is a work flow describing how to work with Actions. I found a copy of it at Metamagazine [http://metamagazine.com/]. Getting Things Done WorkflowIm not going to get

Tools

What is a checkin?

At Least for me a check in to our shared source control system can mean one of two things: * I want to make new code/features available to others * I want to create a stable point in the source-control to which I can return to later This opens up for

Books

Getting things done

I just started reading “Getting things done” – by David Allen. I’m roughly 25 pages in, but now I have to stop to write this blog-post just to clear my mind. The reason for why I started reading the book is that I found Tracks though mor.ph and started

RemoteX

RemoteX Applications Mobile Performance

I’ve been working allot on RemoteX’s Windows Mobile application recently. The goal is to make it run faster. I started using EQATEC profiler, as its the only profiler I found that can run compact framework and profile performance. The Microsoft provided profiler only profiles memory usage. I started

People

Computer anxiety

I just talked to a neighbour of mine over the phone. She had a computer crash this morning, and basically panicked. Now as I talk to her I notice one thing that I’ve noticed over and over again. Most non-technical people are actually afraid of computers. Now she knows

AppEngine

Google AppEngine does not like leftshift

I ran into an issue last night where Google AppEngine wouldn’t persist my entities. If I create an entity using the parameters provided by Grails; then the Save operations would fail with the following error Uncaught exception from servlet org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.InvokerInvocationException: groovy.lang.MissingMethodException: No signature

WPF

WPF Command execution and click event execution on buttons

I had to fix a bug today that was caused by the order of which a command and a click event was executed on a WPF button. I found no documentation of it so I thought I’d make a note of it. If you have  a WPF button like

AppEngine

Grails and Google AppEngine Beginners Guide

I recently moved one of my applications to Google AppEngine. What I found missing was an explanatory tutorial to get started. As I mostly work with C#, I kept running into issues simply because I wasn’t too familiar with the technologies used. Thus I’m writing this easy to

AppEngine

Rendering lists from Google AppEngine as JSON

I ran into another problem with Google AppEngine. I finally got it to save my entities, only to find it crashing as I wanted to send them back again rendered as JSON. I had a piece of code looking like this: def services = { params.max = Math.min(params.max ? params.

Android

Researching Android Calendar

I’m itching to buy a HTC Hero. However I want to test it out before committing myself to buying one. One feature in particular I want to test is the Calendar application. A good Calendar application is a must for me. I got the idea that I could run

AppEngine

Moving from Mor.ph to Google AppEngine

Moving from Mor.ph AppSpace to Google AppEngine isn’t as easy as I hoped. Installing AppEngine plug in Initially moving the Application by installing the app-engine plug in is straight forward. Except that the command-line written in the plug in page for executing the initial setup is wrong. Ive

AppEngine

Saving entites on Google AppEngine

I ran into a problem with Grails on Google AppEngine. When I was saving my entities it tried to save the wrong type of entity. I ran out of ideas on this one and brought it up on the Grails User mailinglist. [http://www.nabble.com/AppEngine-confused-when-saving-td24714869.html] I started

Architecture

Adding a new feature in 60 minutes

Today was the first day after my vacation, at work. Most of the time is spent on planning and discussions how we’re going to move forward with the product. But I did manage to get some code in place. During the discussions we also figured out a way to

AppEngine

Grails and Google AppEngine on Windows

In a previous post [https://www.morten.software/2009/07/14/grails-and-google-appengine/] I described a problem where the app-engine command would fail when enhancing the domain objects for persistence. The problem was that the command line became too long to execute on windows, when executing the enhancement task. I’ve

Grails

Slowly learning about active plugins for Grails

I was adding a comment to the GORM-JPA plugin, the other day. While doing it I clicked in the option to send me update notifications on the grails site. At first I regretted it. It sends a mail for each update. However I  havn’t deactivated it. Here’s why.

AppEngine

Grails and Google AppEngine

I suggest a temporary fix to the described problems here. [https://www.morten.software/2009/07/27/grails-and-google-appengine-on-windows/] I’m porting my Grails project from Mor.ph to Google AppEngine. If your using Windows certain things will not work out of the box. To be able to use GORM you

Grails

Upgrading from Grails 1.1 to Grails 1.1.1

Simple enough I downloaded the new version of Grails, updated the environment variables and its good to go in the command line. I placed the grails-1.1.1 directory next to the grails-1.1 directory, that way I can revert to 1.1 if I manage to screw things up

Grails

Removing the morph-deploy plugin

Since I’m moving the project to Google AppEngine I no longer require the morph-deploy plugin. I removed the .jar and properties files from the directory containing the mor.ph keys to deploy the application. I removed the plugin using grails uninstall-plugin morph-deploy Next remove the mor.ph specific datasource

Grails

Moving from Morph to Google AppEngine

Since Mor.ph is terminating their free subscription I’ll be moving my application from Mor.ph to Google AppEngine. I like Mor.ph but the project is not at a stage of development where I wish to pay for it to be hosted somewhere. To do this I need

Design

The importance of teaching

I have a good friend whom after university focused on first communication and then management. But now he has turned to development. We’ve been having a few discussion over the past few days about SOLID and REST and Grails. IoC containers and what not. He hasn’t seen these

TFS

TFS merge conflicts dialog

When merging conflicts between branches in TFS, there is a dialog for mering multiple conflicts. When you select more conflicts and wish to take either the target branches version or the source version. The Dialog uses the terms Server and Local changes instead. The end result I keep refeering to

RemoteX

Resource matching in RemoteX Applications

We’re just about to finish a feature in RemoteX Applications, allowing us to match resources to different jobs depending on the requirements of the job and the Resources qualifications. In RemoteX Applications you can now decorate a Resource with a set of Traits that describe his qualifications. Likewise the

People

ComparativeValues

I recently read Martin Fowlers Bliki entry ComparativeValues [http://martinfowler.com/bliki/ComparativeValues.html]. Where he talks about the values listed in the Agile Manifesto [http://agilemanifesto.org/]. Now Ive given this some thought and there are some things I find interesting. If you look at it, what he says

RemoteX

RemoteX Applications nomination video .Net Awards 2008

I found the video for RemoteX Applications nomination video for .Net Awards 2008 in Sweden. It’s available on msn here [http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-us&vid=e5862bf4-e11a-4996-b47d-b1102aaa1a0f] . Since it’s for the Swedish .Net awards the Video is in Swedish. < p style=”text-align: center;