30k hits and BUILD

I didn’t really notice that, yesterday, I reached 30 000 unique hits on my blog since it started up two years ago. By international blog standards this isn’t a lot, but I’m glad that my thoughts have reached so many minds. If this means that a thousand people have read thirty different posts I’ve written or that one dude is furiously changing IPs to reload my main page 30 000 times, I’m glad there’s interest in what I have to say.

 

Now for something completely different a bit more relevant. BUILD starts up tonight (CET) with a keynote address. Myself I’m very excited about this, though a bit sad not being able to attend. Catch the keynote at Channel9 tonight or find the videos at BuildWindows.com tomorrow.

Word is that we might see a CTP of Win8 as soon as tomorrow. Although I wouldn’t be able to install such early release code on my work machine, I have a netbook at home just begging to be reformatted

Quickblogging

Hello! It’s been a while.

My girlfriend recently started up a blog and does three or more posts a day. She keeps it light and quick. I’ve been priding myself on quality articles with a lot of substance. But to hell with substance and to hell with quality. I’m going to try to post quicker, lighter posts more often in order to be able to post more often.

Mix10 Day Zero – Arrival and Workshops

Part 2

On sunday, following an excellent Italian themed lunch, the second workshop started. I’d decided to attend the session on design tools and methods. The workshop was held by the incredibly talented Rossi brothers; Guido Rossi and Luigi Rossi of Archetype…

Going home from MIX

After a week of an overwhelming amount of news, new faces and cool devices; I’m going home to Sweden. My plan to blog during the conference went quickly out the window with the busy schedule we had to keep. I really respect people who are able to liveblog and still learn as much as I have done. During the coming week, I’ll try to post my impressions of the different parts of MIX.

Packing for Vegas

I’m trading fimbul-winter and everlasting darkness for summerlike weather and a ceaseless barrage of light. I’m traveling across the world with nothing but a small backpack to hold my possessions and an open mind to hold new ideas, best practices and a thousand new faces.

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What to bring?

Silverlight Market Penetration

Filed under penetration

(This topic has an update. To see Microsofts official response on just the numbers, see this post on MIX10 Day 1 Keynote)

Let me start by saying that I love the site www.riastats.com. It’s a highly customizable site with information on the adoption rate of Flash, Silverlight and Java in different countries, browsers and OS:s.

After the jump, we’ll look at some stats for Silverlight.

How to post sourcecode to WordPress

Ok, so maybe I did a post like this before with a less than stellar result. At least it was better than my new solutions where I paste images and raw black text into the posts. Hopefully, those days will now be gone. I’ve been digging around the WordPress resource section and realized that you can do quite a lot of things very easily. Pasting code seems like one of them. I’ll try this by just pasting some random C# and XAML.

coding silverlight maybe?

In anticipation of MIX10

In two weeks, I’ll be leaving for Las Vegas to participate in Microsoft’s annual MIX conference. It’s a conference about web design, mobile devices and the precious bond between development and design. As I aspire to become somewhat of a design/developer hybrid I think this is the perfect place for me to be.

I’m very glad to travel with Michael Bjorn, who also went with me to Paris last year. To spend a couple of days with him in Las Vegas will certainly be exciting.

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The three things I’m looking most forward to are these:

I’m attending MIX10

Alternate title: Vegas Baby!

I’ve finally been confirmed as one of the three representatives that Avanade will be sending to MIX in Las Vegas. This will be the first major conference I’ll be going to and I’m SO excited. I will travel with my good friend Michael “The Bear” Bjorn and a Norwegian colleague named Petri Wilhelmsen. We’re leaving on the 13th of March and I just can’t wait. I’ll be updating the blog with information and impressions before and during MIX in a regular fashion.

Working for free, when is it alright?

In the last year I’ve done a lot of work for free. Let’s say, enough work that if I was paid for it, I’d be writing this from a beach chair in Thailand instead of on a cold, dark, delayed train heading towards Stockholm. Most of the work I’ve been glad to do; such as the webshop I designed for Prinsessan Kawaii or the super secret surface project I worked frantically on during a weekend. But when is it ok to work for free and how do you respectfully tell someone that you do not want to spend your spare time designing websites for them or fixing their computer? Family, neighbours and co-workers are all very important relationships where you have to tread lightly. With personal friends I feel I can be more up front.

I just now sent a letter to an acquaintance explaining that I wouldn’t be able to design a website for him. It sounded like a somewhat interesting project and I might’ve learned something. But I decided not to in the end.