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
AppEngine Deploying AppEngine SDK 1.2.8 and Grails 1.2.0-RC1 to AppEngine If you use the app-engine plug-in deploy command using AppEngine SDK version 1.2.8 it will fail with the following error: [java] Bad argument: email requires an argument, for example, "email=FOO" [java] usage: AppCfg [options] [] [java] Action must be one of: [java] help: Print help for
People How you write code is a habit These last couple of days we have been having a internal TDD course at RemoteX. We had the help of Andreas Brink, whom guided us in testing and over all code quality. One of the things I noticed during the course is how heavily influenced I was by old habits.
AppEngine AppEngine startup performance attack plan revealed Google just announced their attack plan for handling the long startup cost for, among others, Grails applications. Apparently what I can do as a developer is to enable pre-compilation of my application. I’ll experiment with this at the end of the week I hope. Read the full post on
People Understanding code “I can look at code and understand it but i cant write code” There seems to be a common misunderstanding that if you can read code and “understand what it does” you understand the code. I’m sorry, If you cant write the code yourself, you do not understand the
GTD Test-list Funny thing. Some might remember my how I work with code [https://www.morten.software/2009/09/08/how-i-work-with-code/], where you keep a list of issues you figure out as you work with the code. Apparently Kent Beck presents this as a pattern called Test List [http://books.google.com/
Testing My testing behavior has changed Quite interesting. We just finished an internal TDD course at RemoteX. During it I noticed one thing. How I write tests have changed quite a bit, just over the last few days. Lately I’ve been doing a lot of testing in JavaScript using QUnit, and coming back from that
AppEngine AppEngine SDK 1.2.8 released As far as I can see there is no mention of startup performance. Doesn’t have to mean they haven’t worked on it. Ill check it out to night to see how the application behaves.
RemoteX Testing level + 1 I learned a new way to test objects the other day. We had a consultant over to talk about a TDD course he will be holding for RemoteX internally. During the discussion the suggestion to test an object by mocking the object itself came up. What you do is, you
JQuery Functional TagEditor I notice now that I cannot use the tag editor I’ve created from RemoteX Applications on my personal laptop. In requires a larger screen than what I have. Anyway, this is a working version of the design I showed to mock-up [https://www.morten.software/2009/11/26/target-acquired/
JQuery Target acquired I ran into a designers block while working on a new feature for the online configuration editor for RemoteX Applications. (notice the name change?) An interesting observation was that the risk for the design has shifted. In previous features I started with QUnit and the highest risk part, isolated it,
Web Screens taking off I just visited a local library. I took the time to pop in around lunch since they have reopened the library just recently (2 years ago?), with some new concepts in place. What I noticed is that they have a lot of work stations placed around the library. All carrying
AppEngine Prerelease of AppEngine SDK 1.2.8 I got this on twitter last night. Google is doing a prerelease of the next AppEngine SDK. Details can be found here: http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java/browse_thread/thread/fe334c9e461026fa Only thing that worries me is that there is no mention of application startup times.
Tools SEO thoughts I’ve been playing around with the website grader by hubspot [http://websitegrader.com/] (nice toy), and there is one thing I never quite understood. That is the reason to list a site in the directory service DMOZ [http://www.dmoz.org/] or similar directories. I mean how often do
People Is software development too complicated? .Net rocks had a panel discussion a while back [http://www.dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showNum=476], regarding the increasing complexity of software development. A panel discussion they have been refereeing back to a few times in the shows since. In general venting the possibility that all the options available
JavaScript Are you writing JavaScript or JQuery? I’ve noticed that more and more, when I search for infromation for JavaScript I search for JQuery not JavaScript. Have I reached the point that I consider developing JavaScript code to be JQuery development? It is of sort natural, as JQuery close to eliminates alot of the work required
AppEngine AppEngine enhancer issue The issue with the AppEngine enhancer [https://www.morten.software/2009/07/27/grails-and-google-appengine-on-windows/] still exists with Windows 7. Let’s hope for the next version of Windows then…
Ajax Rethinking design desicions I read a blog post at Three Rivers Institute [http://www.threeriversinstitute.org/blog/?p=398] that lead me to the following presentation [http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/11042/Dharmesh-On-Startup-Marketing-Video-From-MIT-Startup-Bootcamp.aspx?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+onstartups+(OnStartups)&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher]
WindowsMobile Cab installation on HTC Touch 2 Just a mention about a bug we ran into with the HTC Touch 2. When download a cab file in Internet Explorer it renames the file from .cab to .tsk. Obviously failing to install it once downloaded. (.tsk files are the new theme-files from Microsoft) Apparently the bug is specific
JavaScript RemoteX Localization Editor final touches I’ve been working on a JavaScript client for our REST-service. So far it’s an editor for Localization [https://www.morten.software/2009/11/07/localization-editor-for-applications/] and pick list options [https://www.morten.software/?p=816]. But I was on a roll! [https://www.morten.software/wp-content/image1.png]
Added a plugin to twitter for me Trying out a plugin for wordpress to automatically generate tweets when posting. This is sort of a test.
