Kristian Kristensen’s Blog

So I’ve installed a new theme called GreenTrack, got it from WP Themes.info.

I think it’s alot nicer than my previuos theme Benevolence, it’s more clean and easier to read.

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More or less just released (a couple of days ago). Download at Microsoft. There is an SDK as well although it is a bit hidden.

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This evening I saw the latest episode of The Code Room.
It’s kinda like a Docu soap Reality series featuring some developers that has to build a specified application in 5 hours. This time they were to build an app for a mobile phone, that connects via Bluetooth to a Windows XP Embedded Kiosk system that delivers product info to the mobile phone obtained from a product database. The user can search the products, find what he likes, and locate it. Finally he can take a picture of the thingy, and upload it to his MSN Spaces account. All of course using newest Microsoft technology such as VS 2005, Windows Mobile 2005, etc.

Anyway, watch it if you have 30 mins to spare

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You can order a DVD copy of Visual Studie 2005 Beta 2 for free at this website (if you live in Denmark). The DVD kit contains VS.NET 2005 Beta 2, SQL Server 2005 Beta, and WeFly247 – an example application suite written in .NET 2.0 using Win Forms 2.0, Web Services, Smart Client design, etc.

What’s to lose? Order the stuff

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Martin Geisler is doing quite a bit of ranting over the coding standards (or lack therof) of the blogging tool WordPress, which also powers my blog. Part 1, Part 2.

I believe he’s is quite right! When I modified the theme on my blog, I noticed that it was a mish-mash of variables that could be used in the individual theme files. As a matter of fact these theme files are PHP files which are just included and parsed as everything else. I don’t really like it, but hey it works, and as long as I don’t have to fiddle with it or maintain it, I guess I’ll let it be.

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Well, I guess it’s official now: I’ve been elected as Microsoft Student Partner (MSP) at Aalborg University. It’s pretty frickin’ cool The program is a bit like Microsoft Valued Professional (MVP) with students instead (Read more about MSP here (UK site)).

Jakob Andersen a friend of mine was also elected, so congratulations to him aswell. We’ll now take on the roaring Penguins and Devils in our department and convince them that MS is the way to go, and .NET the way to code

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So, I’ve just finished upgrading some equipment at my parents house. Instead of an old 10 Mbit hub they had acting as connection point at one end of the house, I placed a spare 10/100 Mbit D-Link switch I had. And my sister got a 19″ CRT monitor instead of her old 17″ monitor.

Mission completed: Infrastructure upgraded, and new displays installed

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It appears as though Google Web Accelerater (GWA) is taking a lot of heat. Neowin reports:

“I went to the Futuremark forums and noticed that I’m logged in as someone I don’t know,” the user said on a Google discussion group. “I’ve used Google’s Web Accelerator for a couple of hours, visited lots of sites where I’m logged in. Now I wonder how many people used my cache. I understand it’s a beta, sure, but something like that is totally unacceptable.”

And yet worse. Jason from 37signals reports:

Heres the problem: Google is essentially clicking every link on the page including links like delete this or cancel that.

Mr. Ruby on Rails David H. says that Google should just recall their beta app.

This is bad. Potentially devastating, and may in part destroy Google’s rep as being “the all good company that respects all of your privacy needs and would never consider using them for commercial purposes”, and get the far less admiring rep that Microsoft has. This lies along the lines of what a fellow student of mine reported in his “blog” some time ago (you need to scroll down to the bottom of the page), he hates me for pointing out that Google is judged by a different standard than Microsoft. Well maybe that’ll soon be over.

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Joel describes how they use VMWare to test their software. During his descriptions the following sentence appears:

… We bought high-end, dual-Xeon Dell workstations with dual monitors and 2 GB of memory each (that’s our new standard developer workstation) …

Sounds like a decent dev workstation to me

[Via Joel on Software]

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