What happened to nDoc?
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...
The buzz word hype and web 2.0
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...
Book review: Getting Real by 37signals
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...
New design and dasBlog theme
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...
IE is the slowest AJAX browser
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...
The old confirm button trick
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...
Format the size in bytes
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...
Calculate the total size of a directory in C#
For some reason, you cannot retrieve the total size of a directory in .NET, including subdirectories, without a workaround. I always found it odd, that some of the most basic features is not implemented in the .NET CLR...
Aardvark'd vs. The Code Room
My boss bought the DVD Aardvark'd from Joel Spolsky ’s company Fog Creek. It’s about the development process of a software product, and it was meant to be an inspiration for us developers. I watched the whole thing with...
Usability vs. accessibility
Most people are not recognizing the possibilities of an accessible website. They do however see the benefits of usability. This is a start, because accessibility IS usability. Usability IS NOT accessibility. When...