Kristian Kristensen’s Blog

Just a quick update on the job offer from MDCC. I’ve gotten the details but I don’t think I can disclose any of it here. Same goes for my thoughts on whehter to accept or not. The whole thing’s got Confidential written all over it, so I’m not going to take a chance and publish anything I shouldn’t have.
I’ve gotten a comment by George who interviewed in the same week as I did, and have also received an email from a guy that interviewed on the same day as I did. It’s cool that the two of them took the time to search, find my blog and comment. Appreciate it. So if you guys read this, please comment on your job status and decision process

Looking at Rolf’s blog I saw this wordpress plugin called Now Reading that’ll put the books you’re currently reading, the ones you wanna read and the ones you’ve read on your blog. So I’ve installed it and am adding these books. I’m still missing a lot especially the ones I’ve already read. The currently reading list should be pretty up to date.

I enquired at the university library if I could get a list of all the books I’ve borrowed ever. But unfortunately they don’t keep those records. Probably some kind of privacy thing. However it would be nice if you had this Web 2.0 library where you could cross reference those people that’ve read the same books as you have. If would be cool for inspiration but also for meeting up and discussing the books. So go ahead, run off and create this site. Preferably in Rails. Heck, you might get bought by 37 Signals and have it integrated with all their stuff

Following my return to Denmark and Aalborg University I’ve had to do a mini project to get my entire 9th semester transferred. This project has been handed in and so I thought I’d publish it here as well.

The abstract is as follows:
This report evaluates the state of Coding Aid in Ruby IDE. First a
definition of Coding Aid (aka IntelliSense and Content Assist) and its
components (Method, Variable, Parameter, and Keyword Completion, Code Expansion
and Inline Documentation) is provided. This is followed by a discussion of the
problems involved in creating Coding Aid for a dynamicaly typed language like
Ruby — a comparison between Smalltalk and Java is used. Via a set of code
examples illustrating the problematic features of dynamic languages 9 IDE
are tested.

The result is that Sapphire in Steel — a plugin for Microsoft Visual
Studio 2005 — and IDE utilizing rcodetools (TextMate, Vim, and Emacs)
perform best.

You can download the entire mini project here: The State of Coding Aid in Ruby IDE’s. And you’re welcome to comment on it here.

After handing in the project I noticed this blog post Ruby / Rails IDE Comparison : Idea, Netbeans, RadRails that looks into the same things that I investigate. Their study is pretty comprehensive and includes a feature comparison of the IDE’s.

The whole idea with the mini project was to fullfill the requirements from the Studyboard, but since I had to do some work I might as well do something that related to my thesis work. I’m working with two other guys (Martin and Peter), and we’re doing Type Inference on Ruby code. It’s very interesting, and it gives you an excuse for looking into Ruby.

I’m in the process of setting up CommunityServer for a customer, and in doing so I’ve encountered a very tricky issue. Whenever I entered www.domain.com in the address bar it would redirect me to domain.com. This is a problem because the site must run over SSL and the certificate in use is only for www.domain.com. All the settings and URLs in the database were correct.
Finally I’ve found the solution in the forum (Redirect to full domain, instead of www subdomain):
Change wwwStatus from “Remove” to “Require”.
So simple and yet so elusive if you’re not in the know.

Following my job interview at Microsoft Development Center Copenhagen (MDCC) I got an email from my recruiter. She said that the people I had talked to during the day were “very impressed” and that they wanted to offer me a job as a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET).
So super cool!

I got word on Friday and so I haven’t got the details yet. We’ll see what happens.