The beauty of simplicity in interfaces
Over the years, we’ve seen the birth and death of several design patterns for graphical user interfaces.
Posts from year 2006
Found 30 hits, currently showing 21-30.
Breakpoint issues in Visual Studio
When debugging large projects in Visual Studio, I’ve sometimes noticed that the IDE has suddenly inserted breakpoints at random places in the code. This can be confusing, since they does not appear in the list of breakpoints.
Firehoses in SQL Server
While modifying rows in a database with Enterprise Manager in SQL Server 2000 I got an exciting error message: “Transaction cannot start while in firehose mode”. Even though this is better than “Error=47”, I think it would be nice with a bit more information.
MIX06 in Las Vegas
Following the events of SXSW, the MIX06 conference was the next logical step. For the last days the Venetian in Las Vegas has been hosting this eagerly awaited event focusing on Microsoft web issues.
SXSW wrapping up in Austin
Today, the SXSW conference is wrapping up and the crowds are leaving the Austin sun. For those of you who doesn’t have the time to read hundreds of reports and presentations, I have selected a few of them.
Reflections from another Depeche Mode concert
Even though I rarely listen to Depeche Mode these days, they’ve meant a great deal to me for over 20 years. My first experience of Depeche Mode was the vinyl records of “Speak & Spell” and “Construction Time Again” in the early eighties.
Ajax for the masses
This morning I read an article which accuses Swedish web sites of being outdated since they’re not using “new” technologies such as Ajax. However, Ajax is not exactly new, since the technology has been around since 1998.
Turkish culture issues in .NET
I came across a very fishy bug which seemed to occur only for Turkish locales in Windows. It turned out that case sensitivity was the culprit and both Rick Strahl and Scott Hanselman had written about the issue a few months ago.
Synthklubben premiere evening
It has been a very dark autumn with the all-too-early demise of my favorite club Plasticity, as well as the closing of Spacelab, Killing Music and Synthbar.
SAMA 2006 lineup gets a boost
The 2006 edition of SAMA (Scandinavian Alternative Music Awards) just got a boost as Das Ich, VNV Nation, Iris, Spetsnaz and Seize has joined the lineup of De/Vision, Strasse and Sturm Café.