Kristian Kristensen’s Blog

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I’ve just installed Spam Karma 2, and upgraded WordPress. Hopefully this’ll catch some of the Spam, which I’ve been getting an increasingly larger amount of lately.

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I bought Joels first book (actually just a printed version of some of his essays freely available online) while I was in the states during Spring. Now he has a new book coming out. The difference being who wrote the essays, this newly published one contains a “Joel selection” of the best Software Dev writings for the past year.
The following chip is from the introduction, which you can read in its entirity here.

“The software development world desperately needs better writing. If I have to read another 2000 page book about some class library written by 16 separate people in broken ESL, I’m going to flip out. If I see another hardback book about object oriented models written with dense faux-academic pretentiousness, I’m not going to shelve it any more in the Fog Creek library: it’s going right in the recycle bin. If I have to read another spirited attack on Microsoft’s buggy code by an enthusiastic nine year old Trekkie on Slashdot, I might just poke my eyes out with a sharpened pencil. Stop it, stop it, stop it!

[Via Joel on Software]

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I like to watch Formula 1, and most recently Le Mans on the television, and have been increasingly puzzled by what appears to be a common trend. Namely that large IT companies sponsor the teams competing in these events.
Why is it that companies like Sun, HP, Intel, and AMD amongst others are keen in sponsoring this type of sport?

Maybe the explanation is simple: Geeks dig Motor Sport!

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Today at 4 PM Tom Kristensen, a fellow Dane won Le Mans 2005, the prestitious 24 hour motor race held annually in France. It’s the 7th time he has won Le Mans, the last 6 being in a row. Congratulations! It’s an accomplishment of which legends are made.

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This App is cool! When launched it locks your pocket pc, which’ll unlock after you press and release a button combination of your choice. I’ve been needing such an app, because when I listen to podcast’s on my Pocket PC Windows Media Player keeps it “On”, which means I inadvertently press some buttons I shouldn’t have.
So kudos to that!

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Found this picture, via the post mentioned below.
Remark from the post about the picture:

Another key moment was meeting a man we’ll just call “the Swag King.”

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Cut from Longhorn or not, here’s a new Monad build.

A new Monad build is up on betaplace. To get it, go to beta.microsoft.com, sign in (yes, you need a Passport account), then give the guest ID “mshPDC”, and follow the directions for the Microsoft Command Shell preview.

[Via Proudly Serving My Corporate Masters]

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Uhhhh… this looks good! I would LOVE to go to PDC – just check out the flair on the right of my blog!

Wait until you see how much software you’ll get at PDC05.  Along with the latest builds of Longhorn and WinFX, you’ll get a last-minute release of Visual Studio 2005.  We’re at 10 gigabytes already and it’s only June.  You may need to check this thing as baggage on your way back home.  So, strap yourself in and head for LA for the ultimate download.

[Via PDC05: Developer Powered]

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So, yesterday was the day for my exam in Software Engineering (SOE), which I’ve reading for the past week. I picked Analysis Modelling, and presented the topic, and it was good enough to let me pass the course. Great!

During the exam I mentionend Doc Searls and his IT Garage, and promised to ping my lecturer with it. Doc often presents the intriguing metafor of how software relates to the construction business (we use builds, we use tools, etc.). Anyway, as always there’s an interview with him at IT Conversations.
Anyway the ping has been made

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