Mads Kristensen

A blog about everything technology.
2 min read Random thoughts

As you may have noticed, discussions about Web 2.0 have been going on here and at The Dojo for the last couple of weeks. It seems to me that developers take one stand and designers/marketeers another. Today I read the...

1 min read Client-side

If you often use shortcut keys to navigate the web or any other program for that matter, you probably expect the ESC key to close popups and message boxes (alerts). When using popup windows on the web, this is however...

1 min read ASP.NET

Today I had to find a way to force x number of rows on a GridView. The problem is that if the GridView.PageSize is larger than the number of rows you are data binding, the GridView itself gets smaller in the height. You...

1 min read General

I used nDoc all the time back in the days of Visual Studio 2003. nDoc is a tool that creates documentation based upon the XML comment you write in your source code files. Then came VS 2005 and, as far as I understand...

1 min read Random thoughts

As you may know by now, I’m not a sucker for buzz words. On the contrary, I like facts, logic, and good old thinking. Not some new fashionable buzz word about something that really isn't new or any more exiting than it...

2 min read Reviews

The product manager at Traceworks and my boss, Morten Wulff , sent me the eBook Getting Real by 37signals on e-mail last friday. I was a little reluctant to read it, because it was written by the guys from 37signals...

1 min read General

I redesigned this blog yesterday because the old design was pretty boring. The idea is to keep the design as clean and simple as possible, but still be nice to the eye. I'm not sure it is good enough yet, I feel like...

1 min read General

I really hoped that IE7 with it's new XMLHTTP engine (AJAX engine if you will), would out perform the old IE 6 by far. IE 6 is the slowest of the main browsers out there. Firefox and Opera is much faster processing AJAX...

2 min read ASP.NET , Client-side

You have probably at some point clicked the wrong input button on a web page, and something bad happened. You deleted the wrong user, submitted to the wrong newsletter or something similar. Wouldn't it have been nice if...

1 min read Server-side

Earlier today, I posted a method that returns the total size of a directory, including all subdirectories. It returns the bytes and not kilobytes, megabytes or gigabytes, so I write a little formatting method to do just...