Motivational Evening
This evening we’ll be attending Endelig Mandag(Finally Monday), a presentation held by Karin Fevaag Larsen. It is […] a exciting, colorful and inspiring presentation with humor and feed for thought. (my translation). She’s a quite popular coach/motivator here in Norway, and I’ve heard much good about her from friends, too.
FriendFeed is publicly launched
As I, for various reasons, quit Facebook, I’ve looked around for ways to share stuff, perhaps only with myself, on the web (woah, out of writing breath).
Today I saw Paul Buchheit had announced FriendFeed open for the public, and went around and got myself an account. The concept seems at first to be a feed […]
Java 7 tidbits
Yesterday I spent some time listening to the presentation Chet Haase on Java FX, Update N and JDK 7. This contains quite a lot of promises, promising promises and tentative promises. It left me rather excited at the future (and current position) of Java.
Chet Haase is, in his own words, … [spending] most of his […]
Speeding up post-boot in Vista
I’ve been having trouble with Vista’s start-up time. That is, from I supply user name and password and until the system starts responding to my actions. A bit of googling gave me a bit more knowledge of how to see what might be the problem, and how to solve it.
Tips; under Control Panel –> System […]
Leaving Facebook
I’m leaving Facebook. If you noticed I were gone, that’s why.
Java Resources
A couple of my co-workers attending Heinz Kabutz’ Java course in Oslo this week. After they came back, talk drifted in on resources for a minute. Parsing my feeds (Google Reader, hint, hint) brought forth Kabutz’ newsletter and Sun’s Core Java tech tips. Other sources mentioned were Java examples by topic and Resources for Java […]
Generating Class-Path in Jar Manifest with Ant
I’ve recently started to touch Ant. Well, I’ve used it before, but only on the ant clean all level. Now I wanted to write a small build script for a tiny project. Which went off easily enough with the help of Apache Ant User Manual. Well, until I wanted to deploy to a executable Jar […]
Virtual PC
I’ve been installing Windows XP on a Virtual Machine (MS Virtual PC 2007 - free). This has been a fun experience so far; I’ve a few points of experience to submit to any reader dropping by.
Set network connection to “NAT (Shared Network)” in order to use the host computer’s network.
Install “Virtual Machine Additions” in order […]
BBQ with the people from work.
Yesterday saw an eventful evening at the “cabin” of one of my co-wokers. Johannes invited us to share an evening at his place in Skjold, where we were served shrimps, mussels and salmon. The food was delicious and the weather was really nice.
We participated in some activities, walked a bit round the local flora and […]
(Graphical) design for dummies
We had Annika from our offices in Stavanger in yesterday. She talked about graphical design - general guidelines and hints for us “mere mortals”. She also touched in on interaction design (the flow of action on the screen).
Other points were “quality of use”; 1) Usability, efficiency and user satisfaction; avoiding visual noise; choices of color.
Almost […]
