Morten Nielsen

Tools

Travis-CI soon in beta

There is this ci project I’ve been following with some interest, sadly I havn’t had the chance to try it out since it’s only for open-source software. It seems however, that that is about to change! They are opening up a beta access program for Travis-

linq2sql

When working with dbml files: Error 396 Name cannot begin with the '<' character, hexadecimal value 0x3C. Line 2, position 2.

Just ran into an issue where I couldn’t open a dbml file. Didn’t find any good answers on Google so I thought I’d share. I broken the dbml.layout file by not cleaning it properly during a merge, all I had to do was delete the content

Google

Google Iphone Calendar Selector

I got an IPad a while back, and something was always bothering me with it. It had this really nice looking calendar application that was useless because it only showed one of my 5 google calendars. Turns out Google tought of that. You need to navigate to their Google Iphone

blog

Blogging with Vim

Since I noticed there is a lack of blogging tools for the mac I decided to try out blogging using Vim. After Markus Anvhe responded I should try out vim I did some research on it. It turns out that I can blog using markdown, and the post it to

Tools

Blogging tool for Mac OS X Lion

So I’ve been searching for a blogging to ol for mac OS X lion. I’ve found Blogo which seems to support most of what I want but it didn’t work for the new version of Mac OS X. So now I’m testing out an application called

People

Keeping knowledge workers loyal

In a previous post I discussed how to keep knowledge workers motivated [https://www.morten.software/2011/08/22/keeping-knowledge-workers-motivated/]. There is a flipside to keeping them motivated because being motivated is only enough the keep the knowledge worker working well, but it might not prevent him

People

Keeping knowledge workers motivated

I went through a rough spot recently, which caused me to look more closely at the Maslow’s hierarchy of needs [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs] theory. This post describes what I found out in a non-personal way because I think this can

JavaScript

Working with the Application Cache Manifest for offline JavaScript applications

So I just spent a few hours debugging a cache manifest. It’s the second time around at there always seems to be issues when first setting up the manifest to work properly. I thought I’d mention some tools to help debugging issues with the cache manifest. There are

Books

Book Review: Growing Object-Oriented software guided by tests

Finally I finished reading Growing Object-Oriented software guided by tests [http://www.amazon.com/Growing-Object-Oriented-Software-Guided-Tests/dp/0321503627] , by Steve Freeman and Nat Pryce. We ran it as a reading circle at RemoteX [http://www.remotex.se] but I think I’m the only one

CI

Continuous delivery implementations differ due to company testing culture

I just finished reading a post [http://prettyprint.me/2011/01/24/continuous-deployment-at-outbrain/] about continuous delivery [http://continuousdelivery.com/] at Outbrain [http://www.outbrain.com/]. It’s quite interesting they made a trip similar to what we have done at RemoteX [http://www.remotex.se]. However their

Hudson

PowerShell logs even caught errors

An interesting PowerShell feature is that all errors are collected in an array called $error. so for example if you throw an error you can echo $error and find it later: [https://www.morten.software/img/f41420fe702a_A9B8/image.png] However the error is also logged even if you catch

RemoteX

The PropertyChangedCallback on a DependecyProperty is never called on NotifyPropertyChangedEvents for certain properties

The user interface of RemoteX [http://www.remotex.se] Applications has a concept of linking objects to each other. This is described in the UI very similar to a link on a webpage. Some of these links can be changed using an autocomplete like scenario. These links have had us

JavaScript

Basic Authorization fails for special characters with JQuery on mobile-web-kit

We are using Basic Authorization for our REST-api at RemoteX [http://www.remotex.se] and it’s no surprise that we have a lot of special characters in our usernames (åäö and spaces). What’s interesting is that using JQuery.ajax() with just username and password will fail for

Design

Making it easy to work with performance

We’ve been working with performance in our REST API a while back. We’ve been considering different options for measuring our API in production, but we had an idea to use the design of the API itself to handle the measuring. Part of the inspiration came from the Changlelog

JavaScript

The power of nested describes in Jasmine

I’m experimenting with the Jasmine JavaScript testing framework to see if I can create a cucumber style testing framework using JavaScript. I want to go full out TDD on it so I started with a feature file, now I’m working on a spec to get that file running.

Hudson

Job dependencies in Hudson for our Continuous Delivery effort

I’m continuing our work with our Continuous Delivery effort. Were migrating from our previous build system to Hudson since it makes builds much more accessible. The work started with the continuous delivery with hudson [https://github.com/morkeleb/continuous-delivery-with-hudson] project I have on github and were

People

Development as a team or development as stars?

A good friend and colleague of mine Johan Andersson [http://johan.andersson.net/] read somewhere that you can see the communication patterns of a company in the architecture. I can see how that makes sense, but I think its much clearer than that. I think you can see the communication

Testing

What if I worked with a story to being with?

I’ve been working on a pet project, just to see if my idea was possible at all. Central to the idea was sharing of content between users, and I wanted to see if I could build a model to make it work on Google AppEngine. Now I started out

Testing

Running tests as files change

I mentioned earlier a solution [https://www.morten.software/2010/04/14/running-django-tests-automatically-on-save-in-eclipse/] where Eclipse would run all my Python tests when I save a file. This is very convenient when using TDD in languages that can run tests fast. However that solution

JavaScript

Adding elements to mustache.js templates

I’ve been experimenting with Mustache.js [https://github.com/janl/mustache.js/] to do templating for a JavaScript project of mine. One thing that I’m having trouble with is that there’s no way to add more dynamic elements to the resulting template. The output is an HTML

Books

Book Review: JavaScript the Good parts

Markus Andersson [http://twitter.com/#!/markus_marib] recently recommended a book to me called JavaScript the Good parts, by Douglas Crockford. As we were discussing inheritance around JavaScript it came up, so to demonstrate to power of my Kindle I purchased it so we could check out the specific example

Tools

Introducing Tool tax

[https://www.morten.software/img/IntroducingTooltax_968D/taxattorneylosangeles1.gif] I’ve been trying out a few different “tools” just too see what tooling looks like in different environments. There are several different tools solving the same problem in their own more or less unique way. They also take different amounts

Testing

Working with Jasmine

I’ve been working extensively with JavaScript these past weeks. As I mentioned earlier I wanted to try out Jasmine [http://pivotal.github.com/jasmine/] and I definitively got the chance. I’ve been using it for all my testing needs these last weeks, and I love it. What do

CI

Making Hudson (Jenkins) update it self

A funny thing happens when you start delivering software through an automated system. You need to find a way to upgrade the automated system, and yet it is in use all of a sudden. Luckily for us we have everything checked into Git [https://www.morten.software/2011/01/17/

Testing

Unit-testing writing styles in QUnit (JavaScript) vs xUnit/MSTest

Every now and then there are people doing experiments with different ways to name tests. The first time I was inspired to adopt a new way to name my tests was after Corey Haines performance kata [http://blog.envylabs.com/2009/08/corey-haines-performance-kata/] (no I wasn’t