Tools - Morten Nielsen

Remapping home and end in mountain lion

So I’m used to a certain behavior for the home and end buttons on my logitech edge keyboard. Jumping to the end or the beginning of the page is not the behavior I expect, so after being stung by this sudden change of the entire screen a few times.

Mac

Changing the default location for screenshots in Mac OS X

Again, an old draft that for some reason never was published. It’s short, but helpful. I got annoyed at where my new Mac put the screenshots I captured. They were on the desktop which I found to be the wrong place for Pictures. I found this helpful page explaining

PowerShell

Running PowerShell scripts from a fileshare

Since I wrote it I’ve started using Parallels and stopped having my powershell scripts in a fileshare. But the information is usefull none the less. I set up my Mac with running all my .Net development in a VirtualBox environment. I share my source-code directory to the guest OS

JavaScript

View source on the IPad

The IPad is a nice tool for surfing the web from your sofa. However if your like me and sometimes want to check out how certain things are done it’s missing a vital feature. It’s missing a view source functionallity. So I Googled for it and found the

Continuous Delivery

Why not use puppet for installing applications?

I was asked this question during a talk I had on Continous delivery I held at GTUG Stockholm (which apparentlly is changing its name). “Why not use puppet for installing the application software”. I was a bit perplexed, because, were not installing our software using puppet, and to me, puppet

Testing

Switching from MSTest to NUnit script

We’ve been using MSTest for quite some time but now it’s time for change. First of the reasons for changing unit testing framework. We’re now building with Hudson/Jenkins which NUnit integrates better with. According to rumours NUnit is faster than MSTest. In the long run hopefully

Testing

Running tests on filechange

Ever since I saw a video of Corey Haines running Autospec I’ve been looking for an option to automatically run my tests when files change. So here is a list of different solutions. I found a python package that allows me to do what I wanted to do with

Tools

Travis-CI soon in beta

There is this ci project I’ve been following with some interest, sadly I havn’t had the chance to try it out since it’s only for open-source software. It seems however, that that is about to change! They are opening up a beta access program for Travis-CI, which

linq2sql

When working with dbml files: Error 396 Name cannot begin with the '<' character, hexadecimal value 0x3C. Line 2, position 2.

Just ran into an issue where I couldn’t open a dbml file. Didn’t find any good answers on Google so I thought I’d share. I broken the dbml.layout file by not cleaning it properly during a merge, all I had to do was delete the content

Google

Google Iphone Calendar Selector

I got an IPad a while back, and something was always bothering me with it. It had this really nice looking calendar application that was useless because it only showed one of my 5 google calendars. Turns out Google tought of that. You need to navigate to their Google Iphone

blog

Blogging with Vim

Since I noticed there is a lack of blogging tools for the mac I decided to try out blogging using Vim. After Markus Anvhe responded I should try out vim I did some research on it. It turns out that I can blog using markdown, and the post it to

Tools

Blogging tool for Mac OS X Lion

So I’ve been searching for a blogging to ol for mac OS X lion. I’ve found Blogo which seems to support most of what I want but it didn’t work for the new version of Mac OS X. So now I’m testing out an application called

JavaScript

Working with the Application Cache Manifest for offline JavaScript applications

So I just spent a few hours debugging a cache manifest. It’s the second time around at there always seems to be issues when first setting up the manifest to work properly. I thought I’d mention some tools to help debugging issues with the cache manifest. There are

Hudson

Job dependencies in Hudson for our Continuous Delivery effort

I’m continuing our work with our Continuous Delivery effort. Were migrating from our previous build system to Hudson since it makes builds much more accessible. The work started with the continuous delivery with hudson project I have on github and were slowly adapting a fork of that to work

Testing

Running tests as files change

I mentioned earlier a solution where Eclipse would run all my Python tests when I save a file. This is very convenient when using TDD in languages that can run tests fast. However that solution is tied to Eclipse and as I like Vim more and more I stand without

Tools

Introducing Tool tax

I’ve been trying out a few different “tools” just too see what tooling looks like in different environments. There are several different tools solving the same problem in their own more or less unique way. They also take different amounts of time to solve the problem. The time it

Testing

Working with Jasmine

I’ve been working extensively with JavaScript these past weeks. As I mentioned earlier I wanted to try out Jasmine and I definitively got the chance. I’ve been using it for all my testing needs these last weeks, and I love it. What do I like about Jasmine? The

CI

Making Hudson (Jenkins) update it self

A funny thing happens when you start delivering software through an automated system. You need to find a way to upgrade the automated system, and yet it is in use all of a sudden. Luckily for us we have everything checked into Git! So we create a job that does

Design

Bananas!

During Android Only Erik Hellman from Sony Ericsson explained how they create their Android Phones. During his talk he mentioned that they put all phones through a monkey test. Where a phone has to sit for days with random input on the phone, without crashing. Naturally the thought is, I

analytics

My presentation at AS2010

I held a presentation at AS2010 about handling defects. The slides are up, unfortunately there is not text in the slides and there’s no audio track… but for those who wish to see my slides you can find the at: http://www.slideshare.net/agilasverige/hantera-felhantering

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

Python

Running Django tests automatically on save in Eclipse

I’m re-installing my environment, while doing so I’m fixing a few things I’ve been missing in my environment. Running tests using Python is really fast, so I wanted to add something like Autospec but for my tests. So I did the following: Right click the project you

AppEngine

Interesting issue on GAE issue list

I was browsing around the issue lists on Google AppEngine, just some midnight light reading before going to bed… I stumbled on the following issue, marked as critical: http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1970 What’s interesting about it is that this is also what is

Tools

SEO thoughts

I’ve been playing around with the website grader by hubspot (nice toy), and there is one thing I never quite understood. That is the reason to list a site in the directory service DMOZ or similar directories. I mean how often do you go there and check for new

Tools

Twitterer

Looks like I signed up on Twitter just now, my account name is: “anshrak” if you wish to follow me. Top reasons, more playtime with my phone, cant sleep, and someone said I should. Reasons I’ve been avoiding Twitter thus far? Fear of Information overload. Since I have a