On a project I’m doing with a good friend, Sebastian Kraaijenzank. We’re setting up a Magento Commerce shop. The shop was coming along quite nice and we started adding products. In Denmark, you have to get your webshop approved before starting accepting payments via credit cards. This was a problem for us. First of all, this process can take months, if you’re unlucky. We decided to start out with PayPal payments. Here’s how to get started.
Okay, we’re going to set …

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Just wanted to share a thing I just realized. Input files of the type “file” is evil! They’re ugly and they need to be replaced. But it doesn’t seem to happen in the near future. But if you, as I do, use jQuery there are a number of good alternatives to the evil input field. The one I found most attractive is the Uploadify plugin. It’s dynamic, easy to use and highly customizable. It’s well documented and there’s plenty of …

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A couple of weeks ago, my friend and colleague, Jonas, wrote an article about keeping your project and repositories DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself). Instead of having a repository for each POCO object within your project, he created a IRepository. A repository each object could use to get the most used methods:

GetById()
GetAll()
Insert()
Delete()

These four functions is used in every repository 95% of the time. So I asked him; what about the times you would actually need a read-only repository? It’s not impossible …

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I currently have a couple of projects going on. Some for clients, and then I have some ideas and experiments for myself, so that I can play around with NHibernate, LINQ to Entities, ASP.NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010.
I started one of my projects in Visual Studio 2008. Recently, I went to “The best of PDC 2009 with Scott Guthrie” here in Denmark. That was when I decided to upgrade some of my projects, so I could take full advantage …

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Yesterday, I went to see Scott Guthrie presenting the best of PDC 2009. I must say… Scott is a great speaker! He jokes around while presenting the product at the same time.
I wasn’t too impressed by the other speakers, though. Mostly sales speaks and techies doing some cool stuff about WCF, Azure, etc. But it just wasn’t presented that well. Hope they won’t see my evaluation of their performances…
The worst part is, that after seeing what’s coming in .NET 4.0 …

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Yeah. I’m sure most of you who reached this post, knows what I’m talking about. You have a few hundreds of friends who knows good Facebook maners. But… There’s also your mom and dad, sister, brother or even your grandparents! They just installed the new popular, upcoming application and BAM! You just got hit by 384 kisses, 202 hugs and got kidnapped in Mob Wars.
But we don’t want kisses, hugs, or know when your parents will be getting laid. And …

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