Software - Morten Nielsen

Inventory in software

I’ve been thinking a bit about all these factory references that occur when discussing software development. So here is an inventory management view, I guess. Inventory, viewed from a lean perspective is waste. If you can keep your process running with minimal inventory, then you can decrease costs for

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

People

I write laws

I went through a business contract, analysing it for weaknesses. I found a not likely case, but still pointed it out. “You should be a lawyer”, the lawyer says “I write laws”, I reply. Now why am I writing this? Well, there are similarities to developing Laws and developing business

ClickOnce

Changing the platform of ClickOnce deployed applications breaks automatic upgrade

I wrote earlier about and issue with ClickOnce Deployment, where the processor of the deployment manifests need to match the processor the application is compiled for. Naturally of course, it turns out we need to compile for a specific platform. By compiling for x86 and marking the deployment manifest as

C#

Funny piece of C# code I found today

Today I found this piece of code in an integration to RemoteX Application. switch (ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["UsePriority"]) { case "false": switch (... ) { case true: log.Write ... break; case false: log.Write ... break; }; break; case "true": switch (... ) { case true: log.Write ... break; case false: log.Write ... break;

Software

Source control folder anti-pattern

I ran into this issue at work today. Another team depends on my teams code to create customer specific solutions. Now they have an issue where they have to keep track of which versions are currently in use, and produce software for the different solutions. Now I have issues with

ClickOnce

Updating ClickOnce deployment manifest with PowerShell

We are automating some of our deployment using powershell. As such we use the command line tool mage.exe for signing our deployment manifests, in effect were creating them using mage.exe as well. We needed to add the trustUrlParamter setting to one of our manifests. Using mageui.exe you

ClickOnce

The customHostSpecified attribute is not supported for Windows Forms applications.

Last night we worked on ClickOnce deploying an application. The application is a connector between two standard systems, one for economics and the other is RemoteX Applications. In essence it means that our customers will be able to update their integration with the economic system by ClickOnce. It is an

Architecture

Performance monitoring of a deployed application

I had an idea today while working with a performance issue on the REST-service of RemoteX Applications. In theory having a performance counter with the average execution time of SQL-queries over time. Will allow monitoring of system wide average cost for queries in the system. That means that overtime its

Software

Languages in software

This is getting out of hand. More and more companies are assuming, that just because I live in Sweden I want to have Swedish localization in my apps. Sure I do want the date format and the currency format. But I really do not want Swedish words in exceptions, menus