For several different reasons I am moving to a different hosting provider (from web10.dk to surftown.dk). But for the next 24 hours this website (and my email) will probably be unstable until the whole world of DNS is aligned to this new fact...   Shit - some of the unicode signs did not survive the translation through an SQL script, so I will have to go through all the old text to fix places where one letter or symbol has gotten changed to 2 or 3 strange things...   Updated... Read the full article...

Last updated: 16/9 2011 at 23:30. (Newest notes near the bottom.) I am starting this new blog entry to document the testing progress for getting the AjaxSafeUpload production ready - that is: moving it from version 0.9 to 1.0. It is important to know that the only way websites can select a file from your harddrive and upload it, is by using the <input type="file"> HTML tag. The AjaxSafeUpload control and the JavaScript tries to make it easier for programmers and designers by hiding... Read the full article...

The asp:FileUpload control is a nightmare for both designers and programmers. Designers cannot style it, because every browser renders it different. Programmers have to make full postbacks to get the file contents, but if any validation of other input fields require user handling then the file will be lost on the next postback. Since I right now have 2 projects that needs a better solution for this, I have set out to solve the problem one and for all. The goal - making an ASP.NET... Read the full article...

Now finally, after some months of testing, my first website made to work like a native smartphone app is online. It is the hour reporting system for consultants working for ProData Consult, so unless you have a Danish contract with them, you will not see anything except the login page at: konsulenter.dk/m But the basic concept is as follows: Instead of making an app for just one or two smartphones (which would always annoy all those who have selected a different smartphone), I have tried to... Read the full article...

On the project that I am currently working, I need to send SMS messages. Sending SMS'es is easy enough - you just call the URL of your chosen provider with your username etc. billing-information and then of course the text message for the SMS as part of the URL. But guess what - ASP.NET's own UrlEncode is set up for converting to UTF-8, and the SMS provider of course wants text in codepage 1252 - otherwise the special danish letters (like "æøå") gets lost. It might be possible to configure ... Read the full article...

This website is using MojoPortal and previously I have used DotNetNuke a lot, but both systems are huge programs that take a long time to start up when the first request comes - that is the major curse of using ASP.NET on a webhotel where processes are recycled after 20 minutes without any traffic. Also I like using Artisteer to make the overall design and typography rules, but it is not as smooth to use its templates as I would like. Also I have started making websites for mobile phones, and ... Read the full article...

The European Union have passed a law about cookies, which each member country now has to implement in their own law. But it seams like nobody really understands what the new European law actually says or means, and the result is that both Denmark and United Kingdom have copied the law text precisely, because they are afraid that any clarification of the law text would result in harm to their own countries' Internet business... Germany on the other hand seam to go totally crazy and wants to... Read the full article...

It is with great pleasure that I have now received my first Microsoft Cerfication:   Now I am mostly an ASP.NET guy, and while I have of course used SQL for years, it was actually a hard job studying up on all the SQL Server specifics on the database side of programming. If anybody else need to study to prepare for this examination without having studied older versions of SQL Server, then they definetly need to study several books about SQL Server 2008 - Microsoft's "self-paced... Read the full article...

Today I received a commercial which did something unusual for commercials: It made me happy to get it! The commercial was from a company selling pens with names engraved on them, and they apparently got my name from the official Danish company registration list, because what the commercial contained was a sample in the form of a pen with my company name, and a letter congratulating me with the 10 years anniversary for my company. I had forgotten all about that it is now 10 years since I got... Read the full article...

During December I have won millions in 5 lotteries (that I did not participate in), inherited money from a chineese general (that I am in no way related to), been asked to pick up undelivered boxes with money at an American airport (despite that I do not live in America), and gotten 10 invitations for jobs (in poorly written danish) mostly regarding picking up and delivering packages of "stuff"... In short: there is lots of con artists trying to get stupid people to respond. Either to trick... Read the full article...