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Separating language and hard coded text from your application code

Per Ola Sæther — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:48:01 +0000

This post will first explain the advantages you get from separating language and hard coded text from your application code and then show code examples in C# helping you getting started implementing language and text separating. Lets have a look at the advantages: Multi language support When you separate the language from your application code it takes little [...]

Book review – The art of unit testing by Roy Osherove

Per Ola Sæther — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:24:46 +0000

I just finished reading The art of unit testing by Roy Osherove and I find this book a must have or at least a must read book for everyone interested or involved in unit testing. The author, Roy Osherove, is the chief architect at Typemock and he is by many considered to be one of [...]

AlienWare M15x

Per Ola Sæther — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:22:11 +0000

A few weeks ago I finally got my new AlienWare M15x laptop and the high quality appeared from the moment I opened the box. Every components was nicely and safely packed in high quality materials, even the user manual was bound with nice black leather with the AlienWare logo in metal on top. Luckily the [...]

MSDN & TechNet Live tour in Norway

Per Ola Sæther — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:35:48 +0000

The MSDN & TechNet Live tour in Norway are as usual filled with interesting and great sessions. The tour will visit Stavanger (16/4), Trondheim (20/4), Bergen (23/4) and Oslo (26/4). This year I will travel with Microsoft on the tour and you can find me at the Windows Phone stand ready to talk about Windows Phone, [...]

BPMN and BizAgi

Per Ola Sæther — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:48:08 +0000

For about two weeks ago I went to a mini seminar at Grand Hotel in Oslo hosted by BizAgi. The main subject for this seminar was how to describe and create business processes in BPMN (Business Process Modeling Notation) using the BizAgi Process Modeler. This application is free and can be downloaded from BizAgi download [...]

Windows Phone Developer Community – March meetup

Per Ola Sæther — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:01:12 +0000

Windows Phone Developer Community (WPDC) announced the program for their second meetup today. The event will take place at The Scotsman in Oslo 4th March and is now open for registration. The program for this evening is very good and I encourage everyone interested in Windows Mobile/Phone development to attend (speeches are in Norwegian). Program: Frank Dahle will [...]

User stories versus use cases

Per Ola Sæther — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:57:19 +0000

I have often experienced that the discussion “should we write user stories or use cases?” arises when a new project are about to start. I have also asked the question myself quite a few times. There is no right or wrong answer to this question, it all depends on the nature of the project and [...]

My top ten posts in 2009

Per Ola Sæther — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:44:35 +0000

We have entered 2010 and I am now actually enjoying (a lot of people are complaining) the cold and nice winter weather in Oslo (20 degrees Celsius below freezing). I have had a hectic start on this year preparing the start up of a large national project. This is very exciting and I find this [...]

The first operative LTE-net (4G) in the world was opened in Oslo by NetCom today

Per Ola Sæther — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:44:03 +0000

Congratulations to NetCom and TeliaSonera, they opened the first operative LTE-net (4G) in the world today. This net is now launched in Oslo and Stockholm with about 2/3 of the Oslo area covered! NetCom will continue this work and are aiming for 100% coverage in Oslo in the near future. NetCom started selling USB LTE-dongles today [...]

WCF Guidance for Mobile Devices

Per Ola Sæther — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:29:50 +0000

Today I found this great guidance regarding WCF for Mobile Devices. It is a 72 pages PDF document written by Michele Leroux Bustamante and Nickolas Landry in May 2009. I recommend that you read this if you are designing/developing Windows Mobile applications that are using any kind of communication. You can download the document from CodePlex: WCF [...]