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Parsing DateTime strings that contain timezone abbreviations

I needed to parse RSS/Atom feeds and I was rather surprised to find that the standard .NET class libraries do not include a convenient way to successfully parse strings like "Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:22:00 EST". The problem lies in the last part Read More

posted Sunday, November 22, 2009 4:32 PM by aalialikoski | 0 Comments
Filed Under: General software development, Code

Exchange Web Services Managed API

Great, now there is an easy way to talk to Exchange over ws: managed API Wrote this in 5 minutes and it worked without a single bug: ExchangeService service = new ExchangeService(); service.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("userid", "password", Read More

posted Monday, October 26, 2009 4:11 PM by aalialikoski | 0 Comments
Filed Under: General software development

Shake and Save

I have been trying to figure out some use for the gyro sensors in Touch Diamond2. Here is one idea: Shake and Save. Some instructions/code for the gyro stuff: http://sensorapi.codeplex.com/ Read More

posted Sunday, October 25, 2009 4:38 PM by aalialikoski | 0 Comments
Filed Under: General software development, Mobile

Color blind

I am color blind (red-green, the most popular type I guess). It makes many things more difficult that for the average person, and especially in computing there are many places where I have found out later that something was highlighted in red etc. Useful-looking Read More

posted Sunday, September 27, 2009 4:30 PM by aalialikoski | 0 Comments
Filed Under: General software development

SEAMonster

Maybe this should go to my photo blog, but since it has an interesting software development aspect, let's post it here: SEAMonster is a .NET based implementation of a fairly recent idea presented in SIGGRAPH 2007 called seam carving. To put it short, Read More

posted Monday, May 18, 2009 2:57 AM by aalialikoski | 0 Comments
Filed Under: Photography, General software development

Finnish Imagine Cup

Wednesday I was mentoring the four teams that have been selected for the Finnish final of Imagine Cup Software Design. All of the teams had different and, in my opinion, quite compelling ideas. Me and other mentors gave feedback on how they could improve Read More

posted Friday, May 01, 2009 4:19 AM by aalialikoski | 0 Comments
Filed Under: General software development, Students, Technology

VSTS User Group Finland

Kävin viime maanantaina laittamassa nimeni otsikon nimisen yhdistyksen perustamisasiakirjaan Microsoftin tilaisuuden yhteydessä. Paikalla oli mukavasti porukkaa tärkeän asian edistämiseksi, palaan asiaan kun yhdistykselle saadaan julkiset sivut ja on Read More

posted Thursday, April 23, 2009 3:14 AM by aalialikoski | 0 Comments
Filed Under: General software development, Finnish

SDS details begin to emerge

The no spin details on the new SDS features Data will be available via TDS (i.e. standard communication channel used in SQL Server), with at least the following features supported: Tables?...Check Stored Procedures?...Check Triggers?...Check Read More

posted Tuesday, March 10, 2009 4:13 PM by aalialikoski | 0 Comments
Filed Under: General software development, Windows Azure

TechDays 09

Pitkästä aikaa taas kirjoittelen tännekin. Torstaina ja perjantaina oli Microsoftin järjestämä TechDays 09 -tapahtuma. Olin mukana puhumassa Windows Azure sovelluskehityksestä yhdessä työkaverini Tero Teelahden Read More

posted Sunday, March 08, 2009 5:52 PM by aalialikoski | 0 Comments
Filed Under: General software development, Finnish, Events, Windows Azure

DSL Tools and Oslo futures

Ok, it seems that the two are not that separate after all, at least from a future direction point of view. Both clearly have a roadmap in front of them and to me it seems that they will likely merge at some point in the future. See interesting posts Read More

posted Friday, November 07, 2008 7:57 AM by aalialikoski | 0 Comments
Filed Under: Software Factories, General software development

My first Azure app

Check it out: http://aali.cloudapp.net/ Although the app itself is very minimal, it is nice to see that the infrastructure really works already! Read More

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2008 4:00 PM by aalialikoski | 0 Comments
Filed Under: General software development, PDC

MS student partners at a boat cruise and PDC in LA

I am off to a boat cruise together with Finnish Microsoft Student Partners tomorrow, it should be both fun and useful event for students as well as for Avanade also. Right after the boat cruise I head to Helsinki airport and travel to Los Angeles where Read More

posted Tuesday, October 21, 2008 4:05 AM by aalialikoski | 0 Comments
Filed Under: General software development, Students, Events

Run .NET without installing .NET

Ok, finally you can run .NET code without installing the .NET framework! I am of course talking about Silverlight 2 which was released earlier today. Silverlight 2 can be considered as a cross-platform .NET Framework that allows you to develop applications Read More

posted Tuesday, October 14, 2008 8:07 AM by aalialikoski | 0 Comments
Filed Under: General software development, Mobile, Silverlight

stackoverflow.com

http://stackoverflow.com/ Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood have put together something that looks promising. A quote from Joel's newsletter: You know what drives me crazy? Programmer Q&A websites. You know what I’m talking about. You type a Read More

posted Wednesday, September 17, 2008 3:45 PM by aalialikoski | 0 Comments
Filed Under: General software development

Webday 16.10.2008, Kinopalatsi, Helsinki

Microsoft Finland will hold a one day seminar for professional software developers around new web technologies (IE8, ASP.NET SP1 & MVC, Silverlight). Link to agenda and registration Link to DPE announcement blog post (in Finnish) I find it slightly Read More

posted Wednesday, September 17, 2008 5:02 AM by aalialikoski | 1 Comments
Filed Under: General software development, Events, Silverlight

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