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August 2003 - Posts

Tuesday, August 26, 2003 10:42 PM

News of my death...

...are premature. I am just way over my head getting 3 presentations ready for a "Meet Microsoft" conference here in Iceland which is this Thursday and Friday. I am the only non-Microsoftie doing presentations...and of course they stuck me with all the
Posted by Gisli Olafsson | 1 Comments
Monday, August 11, 2003 4:09 PM

Software Engineering - the MS way

One of the things that irritates me is the fact that most universities teach software engineering the DOD-way. In other words they teach you how to run software projects like if you were doing contract work for the military. The problem with this is that
Posted by Gisli Olafsson | 4 Comments
Saturday, August 09, 2003 10:36 AM

Typed Datasets

One of the things that I had to make a decision about early on in my pet project was how I was going to transfer data back and forth from the web service to the client. My initial thought was that whenever I was performing a CREATE operation I would pass
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Thursday, August 07, 2003 12:38 AM

Architecture choices

When I started working with .net, the first thing I did was to pick a pet-project that I could use as a learning experience. Being quite involved in Search and Rescue (SAR) for number of years, it had always been my desire to write a software package
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Wednesday, August 06, 2003 4:54 PM

Here it goes...

Welcome to my weblog. First of all let me introduce myself. I come from the small country Iceland, which is in the middle of the Atlantic. I've been developing software for the past 20 years and I've worked for companies like Xerox , Medtronic and Microsoft
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