Aug 12
I am responsible for the local scuba dive club, Ikornnes Dykkerklubb, back home in Sykkylven. To make it easier for club members and others to follow what is going on at the website I decided to integrate it with Facebook.
Aug 06
One of my main area of interest is mobility and I read a lot of blogs and news sites to keep my self up to date. In this post I will share some of my favorite blogs and sites about mobility with you. The last 1 1/2 year I have mainly been working with Microsoft technology when it comes to mobility and therefore you will see a majority of Windows Phone and Windows Mobile blogs in this list.
Dec 08
Today I found this great guidance regarding WCF for Mobile Devices. It is a 72 pages PDF document written by Michele Leroux Bustamante and Nickolas Landry in May 2009.
I recommend that you read this if you are designing/developing Windows Mobile applications that are using any kind of communication.
Sep 08
Have you ever found yourself in the situation were you are working on several different projects at the same time and you also have a lot of other tasks that need your attention? I have experienced this quite a few times and found some techniques that still enables me to work efficient in these periods.
In this post I will share my most important techniques I use to cope with this.
Aug 17
I have experienced that Eclipse hangs when I am trying to start it. I have figured out that this is due to a problem with my workspace. If you have the same issue you can try the following.
First open your task manager –> right click the javaw.exe process –> chose to end process tree (this will end all java processes running on your computer).
Jul 09
Enable ClearType screen on my HTC Touch Pro (text in Norwegian)
Choosing the right fonts for your mobile applications have a great influence on the application look & feel. All Windows Mobile 6 devices gives you the option to enable ClearType. On most devices it is disabled by default. ClearType is a technology developed by Microsoft that improves the readability of text on LCD screens. Quick and Easy explained it is smoothing the edges on the fonts. You can read more about ClearType at Microsoft Typography.
Jul 08
I am getting more and more familiar with VMware Player since I use it almost every day in my current project. When I restarted my computer and the image after an unexpected shutdown I got this message: This virtual machine appears to be in use. This post lets you know how to easily get your image up and running again.
Above you can see the alert box I got when I tried to start my image in the VMware Player. The configuration file only tells you the path to your image, I added a censor strip since the path revealed my customer name. Continue reading »
Jul 06
Today I could not start my VMware image any more, it started restoring virtual machine state and hung when 1/3 of the progress bar was completed. Not only did the VMware player hang but also all other programs on my computer. All shortcuts like (alt + F4) and (ctrl + alt + del) gave me no response as well, to get out of this situation I needed to hold down the power on/off button and restart my machine.
I looked at some documentation for the VMware player and found the solution, very easy to fix and I thought that I should share this with you.
Apr 22
If you get this error message when either trying to run your application or deploying to it… don’t worry, there is a very easy solution. Just go to C:\Documents and Settings\<User>\Application Data\Microsoft\Device Emulator and delete all files located there. That’s it, now you can try again and the error should not appear.
This error appears when the saved state on the emulator contains corrupted data and then when trying to run the emulator again loading of these corrupted data fails. I have experienced this error after trying to load unsupported/corrupted .dll files.
Apr 13
I recently downloaded and read the Mobile Architecture Pocket Guide by Microsoft patterns & practices. The purpose of this guide is to improve the effectiveness when building mobile applications on the Microsoft Platform. The primary audience for this guide is solution architects and development leads.
Chapter overview (quoted from the book) Continue reading »
