Design Working at the right level of abstraction At RemoteX [http://www.remotex.com] we have been a bit unhappy with the code produced to create our REST-service using WCF. The problem is that you have these contracts that you specify. These contracts then build up a web-service end-point using the WebGet and similar attributes, to create a
GTD Muda and getting things done A while ago I went to a lecture at Avega with Jim Coplien [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Coplien]. It was quite interesting, since the subject changed back and forth from DCI to Lean. But given my last post I had to write this down as well. This comparison
Silverlight Changing the default browser in Visual Studio 2010 I found a quite funny behavior in Visual Studio 2010 when working with Silverlight applications. The problem is that if your running Silverlight applications in Firefox it doesn’t clear the cache when loading your test page. End result is that your running an old version of the Silverlight code
GTD Capacity of self One of the highlights of the past week was that I went to a free lecture by Mary Poppendick at Crisp in Stockholm. It’s quite interesting how your thought processes can be activated when shown the right materials. During the presentation Mary gave a brief overview of both Kanban
analytics My presentation at AS2010 I held a presentation at AS2010 about handling defects. The slides are up, unfortunately there is not text in the slides and there’s no audio track… but for those who wish to see my slides you can find the at: http://www.slideshare.net/agilasverige/hantera-felhantering
People Inventory in software I’ve been thinking a bit about all these factory references that occur when discussing software development. So here is an inventory management view, I guess. Inventory, viewed from a lean perspective is waste. If you can keep your process running with minimal inventory, then you can decrease costs for
analytics Measuring defects I was working on performance tuning for the mobile client of RemoteX Applications [http://www.remotex.se/] when I found a tool called EQATEC Analytics. Six month later I added it to our clients for the first time. EQATEC Analytics [http://analytics.eqatec.com/] is quite interesting, for RemoteX it
Python Running Django tests automatically on save in Eclipse I’m re-installing my environment, while doing so I’m fixing a few things I’ve been missing in my environment. Running tests using Python is really fast, so I wanted to add something like Autospec but for my tests. So I did the following: 1. Right click the project
ClickOnce Certifying for Windows 7 I’m trying to get a Windows Application Certified for Windows 7. Once step is to run it through a certification program. The application doesn’t accept ClickOnce manifests so basically you cant even start the certification process without a MSI or EXE file. We’ll at least not from
AppEngine Grails vs. Python on Google AppEngine A few weeks ago I got fed up with the bad performance I was getting on Google AppEngine for my Grails project. I was also having trouble figuring out how to combine references for Entities to build more complex structures. As a result I finally lost it and started experimenting
AppEngine Interesting issue on GAE issue list I was browsing around the issue lists on Google AppEngine, just some midnight light reading before going to bed… I stumbled on the following issue, marked as critical: http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1970 What’s interesting about it is that this is also what is
People Troubleshooting Sometimes I’m amazed. I came to work this morning, and someone came at me in slight panic. A system that is central for our customer operations is having an outage what do we do. Apparently what they had tried to isolate the problem was checking again and again if
AppEngine Hudson build server + Grails + AppEngine I just set up a build server for my Grails project. I chose Hudson since it was the one mentioned to work well, and it did. I’m quite happy with Hudson thus far. It hasn’t crashed (actually it crashed my browser once, more on that later), and been
Android Programming for Android So I’ve done my first programming for Android phones and thought I’d write a blog post about the experience. Programming for Android is a bit different from working with the Compact Framework. The abstraction level for the Dalvik applications is somehow high than the Compact Framework application. One
Design Inheritance of features Given my recent combining [https://www.morten.software/?p=1015] of Tracks [http://www.getontracks.org/] and Shuffle [http://code.google.com/p/android-shuffle/]. An interesting thing happened. Something that happens when you combine two products so that they inherit features from each other. On Shuffle’s issue list there
Design The guessing user interface My girlfriend [http://natooktesting.wordpress.com/] has downloaded a solitaire application to her HTC Tattoo. While solitaire isn’t anything revolutionary it has an interface feature which got me thinking. Se what the interface does is move those cards that it is sure that the next step is to move.
Android Shuffle 1.4.0 available on Android Market Regarding the previous post, [https://www.morten.software/2010/01/11/shuffle-and-tracks/] Shuffle 1.4.0 with Tracks synchronization is now available on the Android Market.
Testing Testing without mocking framework I had it pointed out to me at the end of last year that I use Mocks too much. I isolate the class under test more than I might need to do. Isolation of a class has the most value at service boundaries. If other classes can safely be included
Android Shuffle and Tracks As I mentioned in a previous post [https://www.morten.software/?p=977] I’ve been working on getting the Android application, Shuffle [http://code.google.com/p/android-shuffle/] to synchronize with Tracks [http://www.getontracks.org/]. Now that the work has continued this post describes how this feature of
Android Synchronizing Tracks and Shuffle I did some open-source work last week. I created a synchronization option in the Android program called Shuffle [http://code.google.com/p/android-shuffle/]. Allowing it to synchronize with the web tool called Tracks [http://www.getontracks.org/]. Here is a description of how to use the synchronization in Shuffle.
Ops... I found this just now, in some formatting code: if ((data.TotalPrice - data.TotalCost) < 0) { ApplyToCells(row, cell => cell.Style.ForeColor = Color.Red); } ApplyToCells(row, cell => cell.Style.ForeColor = Color.Black); Problem is that it should have been if ((data.TotalPrice - data.TotalCost) < 0)
AppEngine AppEngine + Grails + Cron I just added a Cron job to “ping” my application every 1 minute. After a short discussion with Paul Cusch, whom commented on one of my previous posts regarding the load request issues Grails on AppEngine is seeing. I decided to give it a try. This solution is entirely based
Alt.Net More information about the Code Sparring session Just a shout out to Peter Hultgren [http://microserf.wordpress.com/], whom wrote a post about the Code Sparring session we had last week. http://microserf.wordpress.com/2009/12/14/code-sparring-a-fun-way-to-practice-programming/
AppEngine Added precompilation-enabled to AppEngine plugin In the 1.2.8 version of the AppEngine SDK there is an option to precompile your solution as you deploy it to the AppEngine. Apparently precompilation can save up to 30% runtime on loading requests. I added the option to turn on the precompilation-enabled setting in appengine-web.xml to
Alt.Net Alt.Net Code sparring session Last week we had a code sparring session in Stockholm under the flag of Alt.Net Sweden. Peter Hultgren, also a member of Alt.Net Sweden came up with the idea. During the Coding Kata held a few weeks ago at Avega [http://www.avega.se] we identified a few
