All good things, as they say, come to an end. This unfortunately also includes my free SVN hosting service, svn.graffen.dk, that has been running almost non-stop since some time in 2006. I started svn.graffen.dk as a free hosting service, mostly because no others really existed at the time,... [More]

I experienced probably one of the worst things a geek can ever experience last week - my phone got stolen. Here’s the story about what happened. Every year, I visit Danmarks Smukkeste Festival (Denmark’s most Beautiful Festival) in Skanderborg - the second largest music festival in Denm... [More]

For us .NET/Visual Studio developers, NuGet is definitely the best thing since sliced bread (okay, maybe not, but it sure is great!). If you don’t yet know what NuGet is, it’s basically a package- and dependency manager for Visual Studio and .NET. And if you haven’t started using it yet, you’re doin... [More]

I’ve been using GratisDNS for many, many years and have pretty much been happy with the technical side of the service. There have been a few glitches here and there but seeing the big picture, I rarely had any problems. Except for a few times when their DNS servers have been extremely slow to pick u... [More]

WARNING: This post is long and pretty technical and probably quite boring if streaming video isn’t your thing. It’s mostly meant as a reminder to myself as to how I got this working :-) I’ve always been kind of keen on streaming video, webcams and so on and have for some time tried to work out the ... [More]

DISCLAIMER: This is really pretty basic stuff. – I was just really tired the other night and couldn’t really grasp all the 1’s and 0’s. Anyway, just to set things straight, and in case someone else might be stuck with a similar problem, here’s a quick explanation.   To follow the example fro... [More]

Okay, so while working on the syslog target for NLog, I of course studied the syslog RFC to properly be able to send messages in the correct format. A syslog message always starts of with a PRI field which is a composite of a Facility number and a Severity number. Facility numbers range from 0 to 2... [More]

It’s been quite a while since I last blogged. A lot has been going on and I haven’t really had time to work on any pet projects. But last week, a little thing came up that I thought I should solve. I’ve started using NLog for my logging purposes (it seems that log4net has slowed to a complete stan... [More]

We’ve been talking about getting ourselves a puppy for a number of years but since we had cats while we lived in Sweden, we never really looked into it seriously. But after moving back to Denmark and changing our lives around a bit, we decided that now was just about the right time to start looking ... [More]

I just stumbled over a funny little thing in the HTML output from the Html.CheckBox() helper method in ASP.NET MVC 1.0. In my .ASPX file, I had defined a checkbox like this <%=Html.CheckBox("MyCheckBox") %>   This resulted in the following HTML output: <input id=&qu... [More]