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]

A friend of mine mailed me yesterday saying that he remembered that I had showed him a way of generating an RSS feed easily from an ASP.NET page. I pointed him at an old blog post that I wrote a couple of years back. However, I remembered after sending him the link that I had actually re-coded tha... [More]

I’ve just spent an hour looking over our Sharepoint site at work and decided that I wanted to implement the same code syntax highlighting plugin as I use on here, namely the SyntaxHighlighter plugin. To do this was actually pretty straightforward, once I figured it out. The following steps need to... [More]

Okay, so it’s getting really annoying now. Every morning I have to spend about 30 minutes deleting comment spam from my blog. Just this morning, here’s what my GMail inbox looked like:     I’ve tried to enable the akismet extension, but something isn’t quite right – at least not when ... [More]

A little over a year ago, I got my Scrum Master certification. The two day certification was extremely encouraging and inspiring, and I really felt I was ready to take on the world with my newly-acquired skills. And Certified Scrum Master sure does sound sexy, doesn’t it? One of the things I like t... [More]