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August 2003 - Posts

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

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

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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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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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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