Posts from year 2006

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Dark days at Wave-Gotik-Treffen in Leipzig

Dark days at Wave-Gotik-Treffen in Leipzig

Just as Whitsun arrives each year, tens of thousands of people dressed in black also arrive to the the beautiful city of Leipzig. The annual Wave-Gotik-Treffen is one of the largest sub-culture events in the world.

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Manhattan elsewhere

Manhattan elsewhere

For all of you who share my love for both Manhattan and digital maps, I want direct your attention to Jason Kottke’s latest project called Manhattan Elsewhere.

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Noise at work

Noise at work

At many offices today there is a lot of background noise from various sources. At times it is essential to have a good pair of headphones to block it all away.

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Dynamic type creation in ASP.NET

Dynamic type creation in ASP.NET

ASP.NET web controls are usually littered in the markup in design time, but sometimes there is a need to dynamically add controls to an ASP.NET web page in runtime. Its quite easy to generate a server control from a string.

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Atlas demo with Europe map

Atlas demo with Europe map

Last month saw the April CTP release of Atlas, Microsoft’s upcoming framework for Ajax applications. I’ve done a small live demonstration with ASP.NET 2.0, which show a basic map display with pinpointed locations of the largest cities in Europe.

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51 essential movies for movie buffs

51 essential movies for movie buffs

Jim Emerson recently compiled a list of 102 Movies You Must See. As always, these lists are very personal and by nature never written in an objective fashion. Since he had the guts to include Mad Max 2, I felt compelled to write my own list.

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The art of defeating procrastination

The art of defeating procrastination

Every now and then, there may be a time when you feel your brainpower is diverted towards lesser goals instead of focusing on the issues at hand. A time of procrastination.

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Using CSS Sprites

Using CSS Sprites

CSS Sprites were first introduced in 2004 by Dave Shea in the article CSS Sprites: Image Slicing’s Kiss of Death. The word “sprite” derives from the old 8-bit days where bitmaps were moved around the screen in games.

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The beauty of simplicity in interfaces

The beauty of simplicity in interfaces

Over the years, we’ve seen the birth and death of several design patterns for graphical user interfaces.

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SAMA 2006

SAMA 2006

Yesterday I went to the 2006 edition of SAMA (Scandinavian Alternative Music Awards). It was, as expected, a pleasant mix of old and new. The initial lineup of De/Vision, Strasse and Sturm Caf&eacute was finally boosted with Das Ich, VNV Nation, Iris, Spetsnaz and Seize.

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