JQuery Localization editor for Applications I don’t realy know what to do right now, so I thought I’d share some of the latest work on RemoteX Applications. RemoteX Applications has support for multiple languages being used in the same hosted installation. Basically we install a set of languages for each installation. Now most
Got my computer back I got my personal laptop back. It took a while, but Dell completely replaced by old laptop after it literally burned. So now I just need to install all the things to get coding again. A friend gave me a tip for this nice tool to help me with some
Google Got my Wave invite A friend of mine invited me to Google Wave just yesterday. The same night Google invited me as well. I’m hoping its just a bonus email and not a wasted invite
People Meetings: Focus on Doing My time spent in meetings has been increasing the last couple of weeks. I’m no fan of meetings. One of the reasons I don’t like meetings is that most of the time they are not as productive as they could be. So last week I had an idea,
PowerShell Powershell principles We have a document checked-in in the root of our source-control system for Applications. The document is the development principles we strive for. Most of them are basic, SOLID principles with highlights in how our code works. Currently we’re focusing on automating the installation process for applications, the goal
Explaining static variables I think it’s a good thing that people educate themselves in computer science. That’s one of the reasons I try to keep in touch with KTH and the students there. I used to work with helping new students learn programming in Java. One of the most common questions
People I write laws I went through a business contract, analysing it for weaknesses. I found a not likely case, but still pointed it out. “You should be a lawyer”, the lawyer says “I write laws”, I reply. Now why am I writing this? Well, there are similarities to developing Laws and developing business
AppEngine AppEngine start up cost I’m struggling with an issue where Google AppEngine will take over 30 seconds to do the initial loading of my hosted web-application. Now apparently it does take a while to load applications that rely on allot of different jar files. Which mine naturally does. There are however some rumors
Computerized I got my work laptop today. I am now with a computer again. Now I just need a replacement for my personal one and the grails development can take off again.
AppEngine Google Appengine SDK 1.2.6 Today they released a new version of the SDK for Google AppEngine. Personally I’m very excited about the ability to recieve email. Here is a link to the Java release notes. The blog post at Google only links to the python release notes. http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/
Computer karma Apparently I’ve done something bad. Last weekend my work laptop was stolen from the new office. Someone broke in and stole it. Friday my personal laptop, that I had been using at work since the other one was stolen. Burned up. Literally smoke and everything. Then I find out
Google Invitation model marketing The Google Wave beta program rolled out a bunch of Beta invitations lately. I discussed this with a friend, the marketing value of an invitation model for software. GMail started as an invitation, most people I know started using GMail as they were invited by others. I my self started
7Habits Seven habits and unit testing Some of the exercises covered in the previous post covered the aspect of analysing the end goal. Now, I’m sure that what we covered was no where near the available exercises. But doing several exercises servers a purpose, even if you already know your goal in life. Each exercise
7Habits Seven Habits: Exercises for habit 1 and 2 In a previous post I described a session where I’m helping a former colleague in her 7 Habits course. I’ll just describe the exercises me and Anna [http://annaforss.wordpress.com/]covered. Homework Anna had me do some homework. To think of which things affect me, what worries
7Habits Seven Habits A Former colleague of mine is attending a Seven Habits course. She asked me to help her out with her homework. The concept is that we go through some exercise as she takes on different habits in the course. Today we met for the first time to discuss this. Basically
Grails Fun times with JSON Rendering I spent the last couple of hours on my pet project working with a specific issue. After moving it’s hosting to Google AppEngine the classes have meta data stored in them. I’m not allowed to reflect over the meta data (not sure I want to either). So JSON
AppEngine Google AppEngine and Grails 1.2-M2 I upgraded this morning, figuring that the changes related to the .gsp views and their pre-compiling would reduce the cold start issues I’m having with Google AppEngine. However the 1.2-M2 release of Grails, doesn’t fly on Google AppEngine right now. As far as I can see on
AppEngine Finding entities with GORM-JPA I’ve been having this issue for a while. Putting it off, but now I had to get my hands dirty. The findBy… methods weren’t returning any objects even though there were data fitting the specified values. So tonight I finally took the time to take a look at
AppEngine Sending mail on Google appengine with Grails Sending emails with Google AppEngine is quite straight forward once you get a hang of things. I ran into some issues, for example I never got the high level api’s to work. The code executed but the emails were never received. Instead I went for Google AppEngines own “low
People We need more automated tests During the end of the the 20th century, IBM had a TV commercial that I’m quite fond of. I can’t find it on YouTube, but its quite short. There are two suites talking, one reading a magazine. The one with the magazine says “We need to be on
GTD Tooling idea for Getting things done with teams Roughly 1½ year ago I produce a plugin for team-system to allow me to report bugs quickly though as I’m working with the code. The idea behind it was from the Fogbugzintoruction video [http://media.fogcreek.com/fogcreek.com/FogBugz/60movie/60movie.html] where I think its Joel [http:
GTD How I work with code the unit test part I wrote a blog post about how I work with code [https://www.morten.software/2009/09/08/how-i-work-with-code/]. The basic idea is that I record actions that I need to take as I work with the code in a format that is readable by the other developers in my
GTD Getting things done with teams With this concept of quickly creating new tasks and with the GTD and How I work with code ideas [https://www.morten.software/2009/09/08/how-i-work-with-code/]. An idea for a new tool popped up in my head. The tasks that I create based on working code, are cluttered with
People The user always knows what he or she wants He or she might even know how to say it. It doesn’t mean that a developer will understand. http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0676.html Communication is everything.
GTD How I work with code In Getting Things Done [https://www.morten.software/2009/09/06/getting-things-done/], David Allen discusses a work flow of how to handle things you need to-do. Now when I work at a coding task I often find places that could need some refactoring love, or needs to change in some
