January 8, 2007
Posted in Music
at 00:31
by Niklas
Important news for all: The new album from yelworC named Icolate will (hopefully, maybe, etc) be released June 2007. It’s a painful wait since it was supposed to have been release earlier, but it reminded me to find and listen to the 2004 album Trinity. I think I selected Trinity to be the best album of 2004 once, and I see no reason to change that opinion now, It’s definitely one of the strongest album so far in music history… We’ll see how long that hold…
Permalink
Posted in Gaming
at 00:21
by Niklas
Just finished playing FEAR maybe 2 weeks ago, and after waiting for my fiancé to also finish the game, we have now installed Extraction Point (strategic x-mas gift) and I have been playing for like 1 hour. It’s really good, I looks about the same, but more strange things are happening, nice church scenery… I thought FEAR was primarily moving through offices while shooting, so I hope for more variation. I’m also playing at a harder level, so It’s obviously a bit harder, but it’s also more fun. You have to get more into the game in order finish of the enemy, who are clearly smarter, don’t know if it’s because of the difficulty settings or the new version of the game.
Permalink
January 6, 2007
Posted in Fun, WinForms
at 23:09
by Niklas
I’m not a big fan of VB.NET, maybe because I’m an old C programmer ever since Lattice C (Later SAS/C) on the Amiga 500, those were good times, programming with MUI 1994 was pretty much where .NET is today (at least for small-medium sized desktop applications).
The screen shot below from Visual Studio 2005 brings a new saying: “Verbosity brings confusion”
What does it mean anyway?
Permalink
January 2, 2007
Posted in Fun, Tools
at 21:55
by Niklas
According to PC World’s list The 20 Most Innovative Products of the Year the most innovative software 2006 was a new version of Microsoft Office. That’s sad. As with a lot of the things on the list it’s a development effort on the previous version. The new features of Office 2007 has not revolutionized my way of working. Some features are good, like the real-time preview of layout changes, but that’s hardly the most innovative thing of 2006. I’m not sure about the new ribbon thing either, sure they look good, and some features are easy to find, but I think it’s harder too look for thing that I don’t know where they are, like the about box.
The Wii however looks like great fun, and changes the way Video Games are experienced.
Is YouOS really a good idea, considering the criticism Google’s or Microsoft’s online services get when there is a bug or they have some downtime. What when the entire OS is down 
And what about criticism like this. I’ll admit that it’s a bit of innovation though.
And what about number 10, a Windows mobile phone, I have yet to see a good Microsoft mobile (I have seen them boot extremely slow, consume battery like crazy, crash when ringing and crash during conversation), the stats are hardly impressive either.
I guess I must come up with some replacement innovations… I would vote for (free) fun extensible applications like Firefox 2 that lets people provide some innovations themselves, usually a good idea, if there is a following.
or fun (free) extensible web (Ajax) application that really work like Google start page, that also lets you do what you want.
Set the user free!
Permalink
Posted in Fun, Tools
at 21:16
by Niklas
Den fortsatte dock att spela…
Permalink
Posted in Tools
at 21:08
by Niklas
I really like ReSharper, it the best Visual Studio.NET plug-in ever, and I get really sad when I have to work without it (not to mention the sadness caused by VB.NET, but that’s another story). I also really like SubVersion, and so far I’ve always used TortoiseSVN. So it seems natural that I would want to try out VisualSVN 1.1.1 when I heard about it. Total disaster…
This is what I got after installing VisualSVN (with ReSharper 2.5 already installed), the picture shows the situation after restarting VS.NET twice, both times ReSharper getting upset and reinitializing it’s menu.
The right-most ReSharper menu look as it should, but even after uninstalling VisualSVN it keeps multiplying…
After uninstalling ReSharper, resetting my VS.NET settings, and installing ReSharper again it was beck to normal. TestDriven.NET was installed and unharmed during the entire experience.
I think this was before installing the infamous Visual Studio.NET 2005 Service Pack, a scary experience, especially after reading about it in other blogs. Hmm… why can’t I search in Google Reader so I can find more SP1 posts.
The installation was eventually a success for me, after a long long time…
Permalink
January 1, 2007
Posted in Tools
at 20:57
by Niklas
A lot has been written about the competition between FireFox 2 and IE 7, so I’m not going to go through a lot of features. I’ve been using both, and I just feel that IE 7 feel really heavy, slow, and slightly boring. I going to leave it a feeling and not back it up with some statistics or anything.
The cool things about FireFox is the amount of cool plug-ins (sorry Add-ons) and the spell check that has saved a lot of these blog posts from beeing edited over and over again, because I don’t like read stuff that I write.
My favourite add-ons are:
- Tab Mix Plus
- Google Toolbar
- Google Notebook
- Download Manager Tweak
And then there are the GMail and google calender notifiers that I no longer use because I visit my Google start page so often.
I had high hopes for Google browser sync, but it just messed up my bookmarks… I’m trying Sync2It instead.
Permalink
Posted in SQL Server
at 20:39
by Niklas
Once upon a time I wrote about a problem I had with SQLCLR. After I installed SP1 the problem was kind of solved, at least I got a better and relevant error message. The problem was that my DLL could not find System.Web which I accidentally had a reference to. After load System.web and it’s dependencies into SQL Server (which was possible), of removing the dependency (better solution ) the code runs. Now I shall continue working with it and see what happens.
Speaking of SQL Server, it pleasing to see all the thing that are happening around it, SQL Server Mobile Edition, Feature Pack, Report Pack, SP2 already on its way etc. Is it somehow leading towards WinFS?
Permalink
Posted in Fun
at 17:42
by Niklas
Even inanimate objects can be nice to each other.
Permalink
Posted in SQL Server, WinForms
at 17:37
by Niklas
During 2006 I took 4 Microsoft certs. It all started when I started to work as a consultant in the Microsoft Dynamics team in Denmark, on the Dynamics NAV product, which was previously named Navision and was developed by a danish company that was acquired by Microsoft some years ago. Therefor I had to start commute every day from Sweden, giving me a lot of free time on the train. So I started to read Andrew Troelsen’s book Pro C# 2005 and the .NET 2.0 Platform, Third Edition, a rather talkative book that covers quite a lot of ground for the Application Development Foundation cert and some of the Windows-Based Client Development cert, and some more I guess. After checking the study guide and reading up on MSDN I was set to become a Technology Specialist, the step before Professional Developer. To become a PD you need one additional exam that two of my co-workers said the took without additional studying , so I tried as well and can confirm that I don’t know how to study for it, if you don’t have the required experience.
And after the exams are completed you get the rewards: a welcome kit and the right to use these images from the MCP site
Once you get into the habit of studying for exams, and gain some knowledge of how the tests work it’s just to continue…
Permalink
