There are lot of things that the average Asp.net newbie simply cannot grasp (hey it is a part of the learning process and I am definitely not one of the gurus), and one of them is that there is a surprisingly large group of people who can't understand the difference between web applications and desktop applications. They have the craziest ideas like accessing the client's serial ports or write to the clients file system. Not that there is aaaanything wrong with that, it is just up to people like...

Stumbled upon a quote from one of the esteemed statesmen in Swedish history Axel Oxenstierna (1853- 1654): "An nescis, mi fili, quantilla prudentia mundus regatur" It translates to "Do you not know, my son, with how little sense the world is run?". He said it to his son who was afraid that he was not worthy of representing his country in the Westfalian peace negotiations (that ended the 30-year war). Little did he know that those words never has been more true than in this day and age...

I have always given myself credit for particularly one thing, and that is that I can be fast as hell in development. Not until recently I have come to understand, with some help from both my employer and fellow co-workers, that being quick is really not that good. This is what I have realized: Try to avoid copy-pasting code. Sure you can benefit from rewriting a lot of similar lines of code but more than often you will end up correcting stuff. A great example is copy-pasting SqlCommand.Addwithvalue("@P...

As I began fooling around with my new Geekswithblogs blog I noticed a little checkbox in the Options section called "Allow webservices". Obviously that was some sort of API for uploading new blogentries, but how do I access it? Did I have to write my own app access it? No, Office 2007 has an awesome feature for blogging. It allows you to hook up to pretty much any blogging API including Blogger, the company Sharepoint, CommunityServer, Windows Live Spaces, WordPress, TypePad and most importantly...

So this is actually my first real technology blog, implemented as a step for giving back to the community for what has been given to me. I do not consider myself a guru and thats why I will write about common development tasks and thoughts mainly aimed at beginner-intermediate users of the .Net Framework. So who the f*ck are you? I live on the swedish westcoast (best place in the world...really:P) and work as a developer for a company that is mainly focused on communicationsystems in the government...