The arrows on my Pok3r (AHK script)
I’m finding myself in a small white room, packed with a large crowd of very young German girls and one very popular (and tanned) Aussie. My ‘Nerds rule’ sticker isn’t making me any new friends, but...
View ArticleConditional breakpoints FTW
During some debugging today at work while fine tuning an image comparison algorithm one of our developers needed to set some conditional breakpoints instead of breaking each and every passing when...
View ArticleConditional breakpoints in Chrome developer tools
Continuing on the previous post about conditional breakpoints I should mention that you will find similar capabilities in many debuggers, for different languages/platforms. One other example would be...
View ArticleSaving RDP sessions with PoSh
I honestly can’t remember if I blogged this or not, but since I can’t find the blog post I will just assume that I didn’t. I thought I’d share a few lines of PowerShell for something rather handy. I...
View Article(Not so) Stupid Question 282: Why RGB and not RYB?
January 1st, and time to make those New Year’s resolutions. I’ll share one (and the rest later this week) which you might have already guessed. My ‘stupid questions’-they are back. I think I vowed to...
View Article(Not so) Stupid Question 283: What is string interpolation?
I had been stuck on some legacy projects and forgotten the world of sexy new language features until I started doing some work for a new client here in Gothenburg. While coding at a café my coding...
View Article(Not so) Stupid Question 284: What is LiFi?
‘We are running out of spectrum’ – Harald Haas I first read about LiFi in an article a few weeks ago, and at first I thought it was just another one of those over-hyped things. But LiFi is for real,...
View Article(Not so) Stupid Question 284-287: What is cyclomatic complexity, how do you...
The other night I was reading a book on microservices (I’ll post a review later) and there was a part in book that mentions cyclomatic complexity. I’ll admit right now that I didn’t know what that was....
View ArticleWhat if I suck? Confessions of a WTF contributor by Iris Classon
Today I received fantastic news, something I’ve been waiting for since…well, since before ‘all that happened’. The biggest weight I’ve ever had on my shoulder has been lifted and I’m excited to have...
View ArticleThe Outlook bug in v 16.0.6568.2025 that deletes emails (on the server)
My dad just called frustrated after having found out that all his emails were gone (after a certain date if I understand correctly), and a call to the hosting provider (provider of the email server)...
View Article(Not so) Stupid Question 288: What is RaaS?
Just came back home from a JavaScript user group, third one in two weeks. It’s a lot of fun and a great way to meet new and old friends. Talking about old friends, my former colleague James was there....
View ArticleBuild 2016 Keynote (Day 1) notes
Notes taken while in the car (not driving hehe) on my way home from a skiing trip in Sweden. I have ambitions to clean up the notes, but I might not be able to find the time as I’d rather writeup and...
View Article(Not so) Stupid Question 289: What is the Flesch-Kincaid readability test(s)?
I do a lot of reading, mostly technical books. A few weeks ago I read a book on technical writing hoping to improve my writing. I learned quite a few things (although I can’t promise that my writing...
View Article(Not so) Stupid Question 290-291: What is OWASP, and what is the WebGoat...
I’m in lovely Budapest right now with work (Mindcamp). Every year Mindcamp does a company conference (sort of) with the employees. Last year was Toscana, this year Budapest. The idea with the week,...
View ArticleRead of the week: The DevOps 2.0 Toolkit
Next week’s read: The Docker Book: Containerization is the new virtualization This week I took on a book of considerable size, The DevOps 2.0 Toolkit by Viktor Farcic, a Senior Consultant at CloudBees....
View ArticleWhen North Korea and Vatican City really wanted Britain to undo the Brexit. A...
After the surprising Brexit- the day Britain decided to leave the EU- a petition for a re-vote made headlines as it overnight grew from 25 votes to over a million. I kept an eye on the petition page...
View Article(Not so) Stupid Question 292: How does blue-green deployment work?
It’s late at night and I’m battling an imaginary cold as I’m typing this, thankful I cancelled my ACL knee surgery planned for tomorrow. Logistically it simply can’t be done. What is more important,...
View Article(Not so) Stupid Question 293: What is a buddy class?
Don’t judge me, but I’ve been fighting the darn EDMX designer and its autogenerated code for the last few days. I’m not a big fan, but it’s there, and we don’t have time to refactor to another ORM...
View ArticleRead of the week: The Docker Book: Containerization is the new virtualization
Next week’s read: The Linux Commandline After that week’s rather filling read I decided to go for something a bit more lightweight and choose The Docker Book. I finished it the week after, but couldn’t...
View ArticleChannel9 video (nr 2) on Microsoft Band Development
I had the pleasure of being interviewed by David Giard from Microsoft on Microsoft Band Development at TechBash a few weeks ago. Here is the video, not as energetic as usual as I was really tired for...
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