RemoteX - Morten Nielsen

Talking at Internet Dagarna in Stockholm

I’m talking about RemoteX HTML5 offline capable web app at Internet Dagarna in Stockholm the 22-24th October. Feel free to come and listen

Microsoft

MessageQueue.Send() crashes if called by multiple threads

I found this bug which was caused in our REST-API at RemoteX which was a bit strange. It was an InvalidCastException being thrown inside Microsofts MSMQ libraries. So a quick Google found this following reported issue: https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/94943/messagequeue-send-crashes-if-called-by-multiple-threads In short, in a threaded

RemoteX

The PropertyChangedCallback on a DependecyProperty is never called on NotifyPropertyChangedEvents for certain properties

The user interface of RemoteX Applications has a concept of linking objects to each other. This is described in the UI very similar to a link on a webpage. Some of these links can be changed using an autocomplete like scenario. These links have had us create user controls to

Design

Making it easy to work with performance

We’ve been working with performance in our REST API a while back. We’ve been considering different options for measuring our API in production, but we had an idea to use the design of the API itself to handle the measuring. Part of the inspiration came from the Changlelog’

CI

Deploying updates for RemoteX Applications using Hudson

We’ve been doing some work with Hudson over the past weeks. Mainly We’ve managed to create the last part of RemoteX delivery pipeline on a hudson build-server. Since the first release of RemoteX Applications we’ve been releasing each release as a “package” containing everything needed to setup

Books

Doing Continuous Delivery with Hudson and Git

Right now I’m reading the book Continuous Delivery. Excellent reading and even though I’ve only read around 46% percent of it, it’s quite thought provoking. I’ve written earlier on how we at RemoteX have set up our build environment with a concept I then called The

Android

Refactoring of logging rules

I’ve been working on a logging system for RemoteX Applications, the system is going Live any day now. (In fact since this post will be scheduled it might already have). So I started out doing the code as straight forward as possible, but it quickly started to nest if-statements

Design

Working at the right level of abstraction

At RemoteX we have been a bit unhappy with the code produced to create our REST-service using WCF. The problem is that you have these contracts that you specify. These contracts then build up a web-service end-point using the WebGet and similar attributes, to create a REST-style endpoint. The contracts

analytics

Measuring defects

I was working on performance tuning for the mobile client of RemoteX Applications when I found a tool called EQATEC Analytics. Six month later I added it to our clients for the first time. EQATEC Analytics is quite interesting, for RemoteX it solves an interesting issue. Error reports are hard

Design

Inheritance of features

Given my recent combining of Tracks and Shuffle. An interesting thing happened. Something that happens when you combine two products so that they inherit features from each other. On Shuffle’s issue list there are a few items currently regarding repeating tasks, and the ability to hide a task for

RemoteX

Testing level + 1

I learned a new way to test objects the other day. We had a consultant over to talk about a TDD course he will be holding for RemoteX internally. During the discussion the suggestion to test an object by mocking the object itself came up. What you do is, you

JQuery

Functional TagEditor

I notice now that I cannot use the tag editor I’ve created from RemoteX Applications on my personal laptop. In requires a larger screen than what I have. Anyway, this is a working version of the design I showed to mock-up earlier Each row has a sub-class handling each

JQuery

Target acquired

I ran into a designers block while working on a new feature for the online configuration editor for RemoteX Applications. (notice the name change?) An interesting observation was that the risk for the design has shifted. In previous features I started with QUnit and the highest risk part, isolated it,

JavaScript

RemoteX Localization Editor final touches

I’ve been working on a JavaScript client for our REST-service. So far it’s an editor for Localization and pick list options. But I was on a roll! So we charge by the amount of users each installation, lets add an easy way to calculate the amount of users.

JavaScript

RemoteX Applications Localization Editor next step

In a previous post I mentioned that I started working on a localization editor for RemoteX Applications. This last week I started change a few things on the server side. In RemoteX Applications there are certain combobox’es where you can change the content to customer specific lists. Previously they

JQuery

Localization editor for Applications

I don’t realy know what to do right now, so I thought I’d share some of the latest work on RemoteX Applications. RemoteX Applications has support for multiple languages being used in the same hosted installation. Basically we install a set of languages for each installation. Now most

RemoteX

Microsoft + RemoteX = Software + Services

This August Microsoft wrote a piece on RemoteX Applications. The article highlights the benefits of Software + Services, and using Microsoft technologies to develop it. Being a central player behind the solution for RemoteX Applications, it’s always great to get the kind acknowledgement of the resulting product. Event if it

RemoteX

RemoteX Applications Mobile Performance

I’ve been working allot on RemoteX’s Windows Mobile application recently. The goal is to make it run faster. I started using EQATEC profiler, as its the only profiler I found that can run compact framework and profile performance. The Microsoft provided profiler only profiles memory usage. I started

Architecture

Adding a new feature in 60 minutes

Today was the first day after my vacation, at work. Most of the time is spent on planning and discussions how we’re going to move forward with the product. But I did manage to get some code in place. During the discussions we also figured out a way to

RemoteX

Resource matching in RemoteX Applications

We’re just about to finish a feature in RemoteX Applications, allowing us to match resources to different jobs depending on the requirements of the job and the Resources qualifications. In RemoteX Applications you can now decorate a Resource with a set of Traits that describe his qualifications. Likewise the

RemoteX

RemoteX Applications nomination video .Net Awards 2008

I found the video for RemoteX Applications nomination video for .Net Awards 2008 in Sweden. It’s available on msn here. Since it’s for the Swedish .Net awards the Video is in Swedish. < p style=”text-align: center;”>Video: .NET Awards Nominerad: RemoteX Technologies AB