On Thursday 25/9 it is time for a SNUG event (Skånsk .NET User Group). This time will feature a visit from the Dark Side in the form of Rickard Öberg who has been a Java developer since James Gosling wore shots. He will be presenting his latest baby. When I say latest I mean in the form of a baby that has come after Rickards creation of JBOSS. That alone makes you think that perhaps this baby might also be totally brilliant! Here's Rickards presentation of his brain child Qi4j: OOP neglects the need of...

Phew that blog post title sure is a mouthful! (As you can see I wanted to get all the key words into the title!) So what's this post really about? I am making an ASP.NET Forms Application composable using the new Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF). By composable I mean that I have for instance a Page that hosts dynamically loaded UserControls. Page and Controls may all communicate with one another but I want to do it without having to hook them up to each other manually. Also you don't want to set compile time references between any different assemblies...

Today was the final stop of Dotways Visual Studio 2008 & .NET Framework 3.5 Open Space tour! It is sad that such a fun event happening tour is over. Yet it is good to know that in each event participants seemed very pleased with the outcome. Stockholm tonight was no exception. The arrangements were exquisite and the meeting venue was really good! Two Microsoft participants joined our merry bunch: Robert Folkesson and Dag König. I repeat that in Sweden Open Space is a novel thing and some aspects of the Swedish folk mentality makes it hard for us to...

Were did the Nokia Test for Scrum come from? And where can I read it? I don't get to go Scrum Coaching as much as I'd like. It is hard to find the clients who are in need of some guidance and are willing to bring me in to do it. (Please contact me if you do or know someone who does!) Anyway, today I was on Scrum Coaching assignment and it went really well I think. But I guess my clients will have to answer to that one themselves. ;~) A thing that came up that...

Rod Trent reported all the things the Chrome uninstaller leaves behind if you try to uninstall. Håkan is thinking conspiracy. He may be right. What should Google care if Windows seems insecure? So much more reason for people to move to online applications right? But if he's not right it's a real sloppy piece of application we've just been handed! I say piece because it is just that. To release a beta is one thing but this is not even that. If Microsoft released a beta this sloppy... well do I even have to go there? It would...

One guy who works hard at putting all of Microsoft's new products online and open is Glenn Block. Recently he's been working on the Managed Existensibility Framework (MEF). He and some other prominent blogers just announced that the MEF is now live on Codeplex: MEF on Codeplex What is MEF? (cut from the site) It is a framework that simplifies the creation of extensible applications. MEF offers discovery and composition capabilities that you can leverage to load application extensions. What problems does MEF solve? MEF presents a simple solution for the runtime...

A while back I happily announced that I will be going! See you at the PDC 2008! I've also blinged my blog properly http://blog.noop.se. Now the time has come to begin building up my own expectations about PDC and to share my sentiments about this great event! But first a recap: Our company (Dotway) went 14 people to PDC 2005 and it was really cool! After my girlfriend at the time came over to California and we drove around (a big drive through San Diego, Tijuana, Rosarito (Mx), Palm Springs, Lake Havasu City, Grand Canyon, Las Vegas and back...

ReSharper 4.1 has been released with a bunch of improvements in performance and some fixes. Here's the release notes so you can see for yourself: http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/releaseNotes41.html I recommend an immediate upgrade! And if you don't have the product I recommend an immediate test drive: http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/download/index.html "No license key is required for running the fully-functional edition of ReSharper v 4.1 during a 30-day evaluation period." Cheers, /Magnus Technorati Tags: Tools,.NET,ReSharper

It seems Chrome is not located in Program Files. There are some major implications with this! I posted last night about some things regarding Chrome: Google Chrome the good and the petty. I point out that unfortunately searches in the address bar are severely weighted. A fact which perhaps does not mean all that but it is a sad fact that the giants can't keep the competitive game above the edge of the sand box. One thing immediately got commented by my friend and colleague Håkan Reis. I thought he'd comment more on the UX bits...

Gathered up some first impressions about Chrome and also a detail which is petty by google that pretty much mangles a great UX feature they have! It's slick! It's cool! It's fresh, minimalistic and new and all that. Freshness is not bad at all. Yet... It's tabs with no frame. I'm more impressed with the cocky idea that all you need is the browser and nothing else than I am with the look and feel. It's speedy. Real fast actually. The memory footprint is not small but the CPU usage worries me. I have a...

Word of the day: Unconference! The Swedish ALT.NET community leaders are kicking off the first official Swedish ALT.NET event! Very nice! Wish I could be there but I don't live in Stockholm. We also have an ALT.NET track at Øredev later this year featuring ALT.NET enthusiasts such as Scott Bellware, Ayende Rahien and Glenn Block. And of course the Swedish ALT.NET guy Joakim Sundén (Joakim Sundén). Cheers, /Magnus Technorati Tags: ALT.NET,.NET

Wow! What a great hype and such clever marketing! Way to set expectations and feed the beast! Meanwhile the landing place for this "new browser/OS wannabe" is empty: Way to get public sympathy before even releasing even a bit of the code: "As you may have read in the blogosphere, we hit "send" a bit early on a comic book introducing our new open source browser, Google Chrome." Now we can stay beta for an even longer time since we were forced out the door prematurely! Don't get me wrong! I'm...

Half assedness in our software development world, LINQ, lots of tools and more! Read on! We continue to meet interested and dedicated (and interesting) technology experts wherever we take our Open Space Tour. Yesterday in Linköping was no exception to this rule. They guys at the event were a little bit hard to get to begin talking but underneath that surface there lurked a whole lot of knowledge and experience just aching to get out and to be shared. The common feeling was that it was really nice to have a setting to talk to those with a similar...